“Nicole Kidman” is about feeling like a movie star. Not literally becoming Nicole Kidman. Feeling like her. For ADÉLA, Nicole Kidman represents glamour, confidence, sexuality, control and old-fashioned movie-star presence. The inspiration was surprisingly literal.…
“No Surprises” is about wanting to escape the exhausting machinery of modern life. Work. Bills. Routine. Political disappointment. Emotional exhaustion. The song imagines somebody who has reached the point where they no longer want excitement.…
“Bass Persuades” is essentially Miley making an argument for getting out of your head and back into your body. Stop looking at the phone. Stop analysing everything. Move. Dance. Let the music convince you. That’s…
Taylor Swift’s “Patient Zero” is about something surprisingly specific: the new girlfriend of an ex contacting you because she has started experiencing the same troubling behaviour you experienced. Instead of treating the new woman as…
HyperFollow is DistroKid’s smart-link and pre-save tool. It’s useful. But artists don’t need DistroKid to create smart links. What should a HyperFollow alternative do? At minimum: link to major DSPs support pre-saves look good on…
Uploading music feels simple. Audio. Artwork. Metadata. Submit. Behind that button, however, distributors may perform numerous checks before sending a recording to streaming services. Audio quality The recording needs to meet technical requirements. Checks can…
AI-generated music is no longer hidden in obscure corners of streaming services. Some AI and heavily AI-assisted country projects are now generating millions — and in some cases tens of millions — of Spotify streams.…
AI music is appearing everywhere. But one genre seems particularly suited to the current wave of virtual artists: country. Breaking Rust has generated tens of millions of Spotify streams. Cain Walker has achieved millions more.…
Cain Walker has accumulated millions of streams while appearing to be a rugged modern country singer. But Cain Walker isn’t actually the person behind the music. That trail leads to Dallas Little. Apple Music identifies…
Dust & Harmony might be an AI-generated artist, but there is a very human name appearing repeatedly behind its music. Nick Hahn. If you look beyond the fictional artist name and into the songwriting and…
