PRIVILEGEI predicted this: Gender-neutral BRIT Awards under fire for not nominating a woman - a year after everyone praised it for merging male and female artist categories

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[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It just took a year for the problem with creating gender neutral awards from gender segregated awards to rear its head. We also all know that had they left male artists out of the nominations the headlines and reactions would have been entirely different.

I predict a hasty mea maxima culpa, and the addition of a female artist who will go on to win it.

[–]LtGreenCo 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

AI will replace music artists in the next 10 years anyway so they're fucked no matter what.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Maybe for the kind of R&B/Pop chart shit, I’d argue that Korea and producers like Simon Cowell have proven that treating music like an algorithm is profitable, but I think people will still be paying to see live music with actual instrumentalists and singers not just lip syncing “singers”.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see virtual AI avatar anime-styled singers become common, but completely within their own genre especially for the weebs of the future.

[–]LyingSpirit472 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

But that proves even the R+B/Pop chart stuff will be safe- Korea/Cowell treating music as an algorithm, when combined with TikTok's rise has also cracked the code about popular music to make it AI-proof: People don't care about music, they want to see some pretty people dancing to a beat.

AI may be able to make music like R+B/Pop chart shit, but you need real people dancing to it to make people happy.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Idk that Japanese hologram concert shit draws crowds.

The tech is kinda cool. But I don't get the appeal apart from the novelty of the effect.

[–]LyingSpirit472 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Of course, but Japanese hologram stuff requires you to already be a weeb into this stuff.

On the mainstream aspect, the pop music aspect, it's really "whatever they're singing or the music doesn't really matter- as long as the person dancing to it is hot, young people will flock to it"...which, by the opposite, means "a music form made by AI/holograms, which has no hot heartthrob attached to it, will not have major crossover success."

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Seems fair. My concert tastes are a lot more, pretentious than what kids tend to be into. Verdi is good. Tchaikovsky is also good. Unfortunately both are dead.

Maybe Holograms can recreate the experience.

[–]Beryl 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I wouldn’t be surprised to see virtual AI avatar anime-styled singers become common, but completely within their own genre especially for the weebs of the future.

We already have actual Vocaloid concerts. This one is from a decade ago.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

That thing everyone predicted would happen happened.

Why do these things keep happening?

[–]UncleWillard56 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

These things are so rigged, who cares? I'm sure if all the nominees had been women, there wouldn't have been a peep.

[–]Musky༼⁠ ⁠つ⁠ ⁠◕⁠‿⁠◕⁠ ⁠༽⁠つ 🐈 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I never watch those award shows anyways. They can do whatever they please as they sink further into irrelevance and obscurity.

[–]xandit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

some of those men could identify as female in the future so retroactively there are some women nominated this year.