I was skimming through an article about Alanis Morissette creation of the song "Isn't it Ironic",
when this line caught me...
"Ironic was one of the five songs on the album that featured real drums.."
and I thought, you see right there is an example of how predominate AI has been used in the mainstream music industry to create albums over the last few decades. Often times the instruments heard are not real but digital ai creations.
That was what I was going to comment about, but as I read the article closer, the story behind the writing of the song is rather entertaining.. and it also led me to realize that I must not know the actual definition of the word "ironic", because I thought her verses did describe irony - but evidently none of them do...
..By contrast, Ironic stands apart from the other tracks as it is fictionalised, rather than autobiographical. It is also wry by comparison to other songs on the album... ..The song’s title and lyrics would come back to haunt Morissette and Ballard.
Almost as soon as it was released, critics were quick to point out that they had misunderstood what the word irony actually meant as almost none of the situations cited in the lyrics were in fact ironic.
Morissette addressed such criticism in a Spotify Landmark session in 2015.
“I've had my ass kicked for 20 years about it being a malapropism,” she said.... ..“I see words as paint, so I play with them. I use words all the time that don't exist in the dictionary, so for us it was just making each other laugh and making each other think and feel.. ...After Ironic, I started writing songs very autobiographically and lyrically on my own.”
I didn’t even want it on the [album],” she told the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. “And I remember a lot of people going, ‘Please please, please’. So I said ‘okay’....
“It was an afterthought song for me. I remember Glen saying I wish Ironic were further up the tracklist but I just didn’t want it on there at all, so I was like ‘You’re lucky it’s on the record at all’.
I thought is was an interesting/entertaining article, if you'd like to read the whole thing:
great