Mariah whomst? The Christmas song of 2023 is here!

[silverstarry]

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Joining the pantheon of Christmas music is Apple Bottom Drummer Boy, the latest imitation cover of the 2007 song Low by Flo Rida, was posted on TikTok earlier this week. Someone went a step further and paired it with footage of the 1968 claymation holiday special The Little Drummer Boy.

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[alwayspolaris]

As funny as this mashup is, it's super creepy to steal artists' (deceased, especially) vocals to make them sing things they never would otherwise. Just sing it yourself and do a normal mix.

[phililen3]

Yep. Like Postmodern Jukebox on YouTube.

[niyarav]

Isn't that what this is though? The instagram post tags someone to credit for vocals

[alwayspolaris]

The youtube video had an AI tag, but if the top song has actual live vocals then good on them. The subsequent Beach Boys/Beatles/Simon&Garfunkel ones are still a mess though.

[niyarav]

Ohh thanks, I didn't see that. I was genuinely confused about where people were getting that it was AI. But yes, it seems like this one isn't thankfully. The guy who did the Beach Boys one is also a musician and has others on youtube that he calls covers so I'm pretty sure they are also his vocals.

It's a shame that's it's now hard to tell what's AI and what's people doing impersonations but still doing the work themselves.

[alwayspolaris]

I think attributing it to those specific artists probably doesn't help, it should just say "in the style of" or something like that. But yeah, all the ai covers are so prevalent a lot of folks probably didn't even check the tags and just assumed that's what happened here (maybe someone mistagged it if these are covers).

For the record, I'm totally fine with impressions, though it should probably be titled properly to avoid copyright issues.

[niyarav]

I agree, it should be clearer. Tbf I guess AI is so (relatively) recent maybe they didn't think of it as necessary, but obviously it's something everyone needs to consider now. I definitely want it to be clear and obvious whether something is AI or not

I'm totally fine with impressions, though it should probably be titled properly to avoid copyright issues.

That's how I feel, it's still a human doing the work and impressions are a skill so I think it's fine as long as it's for creative purposes and it's clearly labelled.