Music

The future of music will be decided by this Twitter bot

by Jeremy Mersereau

Living in what is basically Brave New World-world does have its advantages: Instead of performing backbreaking labour like steel manufacturing or, uh, any manufacturing, you can just have robots do it for you! And hey, the only downside is the destruction of billions of dollars in wages! What a deal!

The creeping encroachment of 100% automation also has special value for those enormous economic contributors, our artists. As every musician knows, finding a trademark sound that hasn’t been done to death is one of the most difficult things to accomplish when starting a new musical project… so why not have a Twitter bot do the heavy lifting for you?

That’s the idea behind Genre Masher, an (apparently) automated Twitter feed that exists solely to post fertile, unexplored musical territories 24/7. After all, why waste valuable time practicing and experimenting to come up with a unique sound when you can just point your browser to Twitter and pluck one of the hundreds of offerings Genre Masher has available? I mean, who wouldn’t want to hear “Emo-Reggae with Metal Styling” or “Pirate Hip Hop Ragtime”? What do you mean, “most people”? Wait, come back! At least check out some of our favourites before you go!

It’s already called “Rascal Flatts”.

Hey, I grew up there! Dad said “Color Me Badd” betrayed him after Now & Forever

So… Dylan?

PC Music must’ve taken this one.

Actually, a surprising amount of contemporary music is post-Viking.

Known practitioners: Dead Prez.

Carnac the Magnificent holding the envelope to his head: “What is something no astronaut wants to hear?”

So… emo?

Been done.

A bold new direction for techno.

Not one of the more popular frats on campus.