AI and the Shortcut Music Era

Nicki’s been warning for years about: shortcuts replacing skill branding replacing

musicianship image + tech outperforming pen + voice That doesn’t mean every new artist

is talentless, but it does mean the system now rewards: speed over craft virality over vocal

ability scalability over humanity AI is just the most extreme version

of that logic. Millennials and Gen X feel this more because we remember when:

you had to buy music artists had to tour and perform bad singers got exposed quickly

Now you can be successful without ever touching a mic live. That’s new—and unsettling.