I found an awesome 80s style cover of one of the Kpop Demon Hunters songs on YouTube. I still like it — but the channel has dozens of videos including 5-6 of any given song, they make more than one a day, and when people ask them to go on Spotify, they say they won’t — which is interesting because Spotify just banned AI generated music. So I’m 99% sure they’re an AI band. My point is, I can’t help liking the song, so I feel like we’re screwed because that could happen to anyone. (FWIW I’ve downloaded the song so I can play it offline. So they don’t make money from my plays.)
So my question is. How do we know? And what can we do?
I agree with you about the lyrics. I think if it’s a cover song, it’s gonna be harder to tell, in a vacuum. I suppose I have my answer in how many songs this channel is churning out. What really did it for me was where the quality would dip. They act like they’re actually doing these as performances in a studio, but there are lines being delivered that no reasonable person would sing that way and stamp with their approval. Because with a cover song, the lyrics have already been written and you have the song, you just change it in some way.