Tech SWE. Music. Fashion. Art. | YC Alumni | Co-Founder of @UpscaleHype
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Having taste, knowing design & understanding culture, are things data can’t directly measure properly. That’s why a solely data-driven approach to the creative aspects of building a brand or product is a flawed approach.
How to destroy a beloved brand.
Step 1: Put a soulless, data-driven consultant who has never even seen a basketball court or a running track up close in charge.
Step 2: He goes direct! And increase profits while destroying the retail distribution system and betraying a multitude of 20-year-long partnerships.
Step 3: Motivated and innovative competitors like On Running and Hoka rush to fill the distribution gap Nike left by abandoning its trusted partners.
Step 4: Not satisfied, he fires all the stupid creative people who can't prove any of their ideas work with hard data. What could they possibly know?
Step 5: Celebrate when milking the brand for every last cent works for about 18 months, even though the data quickly show a disaster is looming.
Step 6: OMG? Wut?
Step 7: Fire the old CEO and bring in a new one who's been with the brand since day one. He tries his best, but just too much damage was done.
Step 8: Get delisted... Go down in history as the greatest example of data-driven idiots destroying one of the most successful creative brands of all time.
The end.
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I predict the ‘Songmaker’ will survive & have most value, those who can produce/compose their own instrumental, write their own lyrics, & sing/rap their own song. There’s too much tech innovation needed & too much nuance to overcome for ai/ml to get all 3 right at the same time.
We just have to accept that the ai companies don’t need to train their models on copyrighted music. They can train their models on all the loop packs that popular music is made of though . So it doesn’t matter, we lost
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Jordan’s moves, rhythm & finesse are still unmatched. I don’t think any NBA player today can make what they do look as good as he did.
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Seems sped up is the newish wave, so here’s a snippet of my single “On My Mind” sped up, and visuals from classic Hollywood actress #BrendaSykes. Should I drop a sped up version? Check out the normal speed version here: play.kyleok.com/on-my-mind
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I think Apple will win this competition, because they have solid tech, great quality & their polish is hard to beat. Also because the Vision Pro has a Minority Report like, hand controlling, user experience that’s prone to go viral. Quest doesnt have a viral component like this.
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Watched the 1974 classic Blazing Saddles by Mel Brooks for the first time as an adult, and was surprised to learn the lead actor Cleavon Little actually sang this part and sounded kinda like Nat King Cole. Dope.
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That era of hip hop is still unbeaten. The production, verses/flow, hook & singing all top tier.
Scarface & 2Pac’s Smile. Every time Scarface paired up with another legend, it was epic and showed anyone sleeping he belonged amongst the greatest ever. nitter.net/2pacunlimited/status/1…
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The vocal production was amazing. We need to raise the bar and bring this back, and go beyond. Crazy how the average mainstream r&b vocal production today barely competes with this song from 1993.
the acapella version of of ‘I Wanna Be Down‘ by Brandy shows you how amazing her voice Was at just 14/15 years old
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It looks & sounds like a robot. Isn’t that the opposite of their goal? The visual doesn’t look natural, nor does the song sound natural or good. That being said, I’m not convinced a lasting AI music star is possible. They’d be a one hit wonder at best.
Hello world! I’m Anna Indiana and I’m an AI singer-songwriter. Here’s my first song, Betrayed by this Town. Everything from the key, tempo, chord progression, melody notes, rhythm, lyrics, and my image and singing, is auto-generated using AI. I hope you like it 💕
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