"Breaking Rust, an AI "band" that appeared on the internet in the middle of October based on its presence on Instagram, topped the chart last week with a song called Walk My Walk. Look at Breaking Rust's social media pages and you'll find nothing to indicate there's an actual human involved in the music-making portion of the band's songs - just a chiseled-jawed, clearly AI-generated cowboy, and video clips featuring folksy people doing folksy things or slow-walking away from the camera."
"To say the various songs are similar would be an understatement: They're practically identical down to their bland, hollow lyrics. Hang on a second, you may be wondering: Doesn't Breaking Rust sound like every other so-called "bro country" band that's come to dominate the genre over the past decade by singing soulless, cookie-cutter songs about trucks, beer, American flags, and scantily-clad women? Absolutely."
""Breaking Rust, an AI-powered country act, debuted at No. 9 on the Emerging Artists chart (dated Nov. 1)," the music publication said. "The project, credited to songwriter Aubierre Rivaldo Taylor, has generated 1.6 million official U.S. streams." Taylor has almost no internet presence, appearing only in association with Breaking Rust and a decidedly dirtier act called Defbeatsai. It's not clear whether he's even a real person."
An AI-created country act named Breaking Rust achieved a number-one placement on Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales chart with the song Walk My Walk. The project's social media features an AI-generated cowboy and generic folksy video clips, with no clear human credited for music creation. The songs are nearly identical and rely on bland, hollow bro-country tropes about trucks, beer, flags, and women. Billboard noted the project debuted at No. 9 on the Emerging Artists chart and credited songwriter Aubierre Rivaldo Taylor, who has virtually no independent internet presence and uncertain authenticity.
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