Rock And Roll Will Always Outdo Technology

In a current dialog with Spain’s Metal Journal, Extreme‘s guitarist Nuno Bettencourt shared his perspective on using synthetic intelligence (AI) in creating music. Addressing the apprehensions surrounding AI-generated melodies and lyrics, Nuno expressed a surprisingly welcoming stance. He stated: “Everyone’s anxious and all people’s scared, and the way it’s gonna change something. I adore it, man. You already know why I adore it? I am, like, carry it on. Do extra of it.”

Nuno elaborated on his level by reflecting on the historic fidelity of rock music amidst technological developments. He famous, “As a result of what that does, the individuals who do this and use it and assume they’ll emulate emotion, the larger, to me, rock and roll is gonna get. As a result of rock and roll, in the event you discover — take a look at all of the know-how that is occurred because the Nineteen Thirties, every thing from telephones to tv, to cell telephones, to computer systems to synthesize every thing else, what has modified within the guitar? Nothing. Zero. What has modified in a drum set? Nothing. What has modified in a bass guitar? Nothing. A microphone.”

For Nuno, the essence of rock and roll lies in its imperfections and authenticity, one thing AI can not replicate. “Rock and roll, to me, is, is at all times there as a result of it is damaged,” he defined. “It isn’t synthetic. It isn’t excellent. It is all of the imperfections, is what makes us shine. It is the hazard of it.”

He argues that regardless of AI’s potential to compose and produce music, it should by no means seize the uncooked, imperfect vitality of rock. “A.I. can do all you need — to jot down lyrics, to jot down a track, to do no matter, even report, to do no matter — however it’s at all times gonna sound sterilized, even after they strive… As a result of even when they tried to sound like, as an instance, I do not know, Led Zeppelin… Led Zeppelin did not even sound like Led Zeppelin each night time. Generally they had been nice, typically they had been sloppy, typically it was superb, and that is the hazard, and that is the factor of rock and roll that you’ll by no means be capable to seize with A.I. I do not give a fuck how a lot they’re gonna strive.”

Nuno highlighted his current work on Extreme‘s Six for instance of his perception within the enduring attraction of real rock music, and the viewers’s gratitude for genuine rock: “You might see simply with the newest Extreme album [2023’s ‘Six’] — fuck Extreme; it did not even matter that it was Extreme — you can see with simply doing an album, folks had been simply thanking us, ‘Thanks for a rock album,’ ‘Thanks only for some rock and roll.’ That is how starved and famine that we have now.”

Evaluating himself to Keanu Reeves’ character in The Matrix, Nuno asserted the irreplaceable human factor of dwell rock performances. “Generally I really feel like Keanu Reeves in ‘The Matrix’,” Nuno added. “Rock and roll will at all times outdo any know-how or something that anyone throws at it, as a result of, you already know why? Getting in entrance of an viewers won’t ever — A.I. won’t ever be capable to step on stage and replicate what we do at any given second or second, what we are saying, the sweat, the love, the fervour, the viewers. That relationship is untouchable by A.I. Interval.”