{"id":34512,"date":"2025-11-04T08:52:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T14:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34512"},"modified":"2025-11-03T18:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T00:28:14","slug":"you-win-some-you-lose-some-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/04\/you-win-some-you-lose-some-2\/","title":{"rendered":"You Win Some, You Lose Some"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/music\/articles\/no-rap-songs-top-40-002251507.html\" target=\"_new\">No Rap Songs in the Top 40 for First Time in 35 Years: Kendrick Lamar and SZA&#8217;s &#8216;Luther&#8217; Exits Billboard Hot 100<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/music\/articles\/ai-artist-hit-billboard-charts-162146467.html\" target=\"_new\">An AI artist has hit the Billboard charts. Who is Xania Monet?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To be honest, the amount of rap that I have bought in my accumulation over the decades is minimal.  Singles (The Beastie Boys&#8217; &#8220;So Whatcha Want&#8221;, Young MC&#8217;s &#8220;Bust a Move&#8221; come to mind), accidental (Foxy Brown&#8217;s &#8220;I&#8217;ll Be&#8221;, also a single, but I thought it might be R&#038;B), or songs with bits of rap in them.  And the amount of AI music that I&#8217;ll buy is <em>none if I can help it<\/em>.  <\/p>\n<p>Which is a terrible thing to say given that my beautiful wife has used AI to generate tech-themed symphonic metal songs as&#8230; novelty, I guess?  <\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve bought The Defect&#8217;s album <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/28\/listen-along-with-brian-j\/\" target=\"_new\">after hearing them earlier this year<\/a>, but they&#8217;re almost into that uncanny valley of sounding too much like AI for me to really get into them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Rap Songs in the Top 40 for First Time in 35 Years: Kendrick Lamar and SZA&#8217;s &#8216;Luther&#8217; Exits Billboard Hot 100 An AI artist has hit the Billboard charts. Who is Xania Monet? To be honest, the amount of rap that I have bought in my accumulation over the decades is minimal. Singles (The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34513,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34512\/revisions\/34513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}