Several years ago, a post in a chat room said, "In the future, popular music will be made by robots, and the kids won't be able to tell the difference." You may be surprised to learn that this has already happened.
We spoke to Thomas D. Mottola, former Chairman and CEO of Sony Music Entertainment Inc. He told us that robots and computers making music had already been done. "We first used machines to make the hits in the late eighties," The singers you did not see who really recorded the Milli Vanilli album, as well as New Kids On The Block, were actually robots. Those were just the first generation of Robomuze technology, which is sweeping the music industry. By the second generation, a highly sophisticated computer algorithm was composing hit after hit, and robots were performing them. We just plug in a few variables like current fads and slang terms, and out come songs!
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