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Citizen One S2-E16 – Suburb City

Citizen One S2-E16 – Suburb City

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There’s a gospel choir on the record I’m releasing this month. Consider this podcast episode the release party. Sixteen voices, brass underneath, a room you can hear the size of. It comes in about two-thirds of the way through a song called “F**k That Family,” which is about the people who chose you back — the ones who aren’t blood and set a place for you anyway.That choir doesn’t exist.I typed a description of what I wanted at my kitchen table in Barcelona at four in the morning, and waited about ninety seconds.I’ve spent years on the other side of the glass, producing music videos for working regional acts. I know what a record costs at that level. A sixteen-piece choir with a horn section is a five-figure day before anyone has mixed anything. No regional act in Europe can afford it. Not one.I didn’t hire anything.This week’s episode is about what happens next. And I should say at the top what I say at the top of the episode: I’m not a neutral party in this. Normally on this show I’m at some distance from what I’m covering — somebody built a thing, somebody sold a thing, somebody got displaced, and I go find out what happened and why it matters. Not this time. This time I’m the one who did it.I’m putting myself on trial here.What I madeEight songs. About forty hours. It’s called Suburb City, by 50 Minute Hour. It’s a concept album — one narrator, multiple voices, one town, eight chapters. It’s heavy on Gen-X angst, anthems, and catharsis. And it is very personal to me, made with love and care — by me and the machine. That’s the contradiction. There’s a Music Man patter parody about the therapy industry, sung by a huckster selling wounds instead of pool tables. A waltz in three-four where every argument resolves into you misremembered. An orchestral lament about three attempts to leave a marriage, each one interrupted. A gospel showstopper. A rockabilly strut about resigning from the position of designated family failure. Glam rock. Pop punk. And a rock opera anthem set in a tower where everyone who ever damaged you lives on a different floor, and you’re the one paying the heating bill.Every word is mine. Every arrangement decision is mine. I knew exactly what I wanted each song to do and I iterated until it did it.And every single performance on that record was generated. All of it. There is not one human being on it besides me, and I don’t sing.It was made with love, passion, and commitment — and it would not exist otherwise. No budget, no band, no time. I’ve wanted to write music since I was fifteen, which is also the year I won a national poetry prize for a parody of Shakespeare. Act Two, Scene Seven of As You Like It. The one about all the world being a stage.What it replacedHere’s the part I haven’t heard anyone in my position say out loud.That record replaced a session drummer.It replaced a bass player. A guitarist. A horn section. A sixteen-member gospel choir. A tracking engineer. A mix engineer. A mastering engineer.Nine or ten paid jobs. Forty hours. Zero pounds, euros, or dollars.I want to be precise about the verb, because it matters. I didn’t evaluate those people and decide I could do without them. I didn’t audition anyone and find them wanting.I couldn’t. I skipped them, because skipping them was available.That’s the real story of the last three years, and almost nobody is telling it straight — least of all people like me.The wrong questionIn November of last year, Deezer and Ipsos ran the biggest study anyone’s run on this. Nine thousand people, eight countries. They played them music and asked whether it was made by a human or a machine.Ninety-seven percent got it wrong.That number has been in every article about this for eight months. It’s in open letters. It’s in policy submissions. It gets cited by the people worried about all this as proof of a crisis, and by the people building these tools as proof of arrival.Both sides love it, which should be your first clue that something’s off.Because here’s what that study actually measured: detection. Can you tell?And I’d ask you — when have you ever chosen music that way?Think about the last song you loved. Did you love it because you correctly identified the production chain? Did you put it on and think, ah yes, session players, analogue desk, human hands? Or was there autotune on it? Pitch correction? Stem separation? AI plug-ins in Logic or Pro Tools or Ableton that plenty of musicians use and nobody discloses?The questions people actually ask are much older and much simpler. Did you like it. Was it any good. Did whoever made this work hard at it.Nobody has tested any of those. Not once.Every blind test that’s been run compares different songs, by different writers, and asks people to spot the machine. Which leaves the biggest variable in music — the writing — completely loose. If a listener prefers the human track, was that the performance? Or did ...
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