It's so funny/funky.

When funk isn't funky anymore.

Mar 24, 2026

For people who are following my YouTube Channel; there’s a song called Funk Ain’t Funky on my Channel. And I must say, it is a funny/funky song. “Funk Ain’t Funky when it ain’t got soul”, it doesn’t get more simple than that. Music needs to have a soul, something that vibrates or gets people moving, whether emotionally or actually into action.

The thing I’m wondering here, is why another one of my songs does hit 100 views (which is a lot for me), while Funk Ain’t Funky doesn’t. The other song is named Funky Riot, and it really is a riot. The songs plays with funky trumpets, hard electric guitars and clear-cut rhythms. Bascially no-nonsense rock ‘n’ roll. Amusing and weird at the same time, if you were to ask me…

It does teach me to not take complete control of the views. Some songs do well on my Channel, others don’t. “Don’t cry, get over it”, like I wrote in the song A psychologist’s kiss. If I’d cry for every song that’s pretty good in my opinion but doesn’t get a lot of views, I’d be crying more than being happy about sending my music around the world. And that’s exactly it: I love sharing my music.

Lately, I’ve been actively working with AI to make music. And it sounds really well, I can’t argue with that. I also see why artists are fearing they’ll lose their jobs, though. AI can make songs so perfectly, you’d almost reduce the whole working team to at most two or three people for making an album. Such a scenario results in a lot of people losing their jobs, which is why I can clearly understand what they’re talking about.

Why am I making music with AI, then? Long story short; I am doing everything on my own. From writing the music texts, to generating the music, to choosing a fitting image for an album, to remastering the songs for a better sound quality; everything. I am a one-man show, so to say. I don’t have enough money to actually begin a band and to record an album.

That doesn’t mean I don’t know anything about music at all. Before I started working with AI, I used to work with MuseScore. Though MuseScore does not have a sound quality like AI (I don’t think something like that would be possible at all, to be completely honest), MuseScore allows users to write their music note by note. And that’s what I’ve been doing since the summer of 2016. I can also play an alto saxophone and I’m playing drums at the moment, so I know my fair share of music.

And that’s exactly why I don’t use AI to generate twenty songs, which are all almost the same. When I decided to start using AI, I wanted every song that’d come out of AI to be different than the other. Sure, you can’t prevent that some songs resemble each other, such as the song Under my Skin from my thirtiest album Anastacia, and Shattered Velvet from my thirty-first album The Remnants. But I don’t want the exact same song, with the exact same title and the exact lyrics and music, to sound slightly different from another song earlier on. All songs have to differ from each other, if you ask me. Otherwise, it’s too easy. One can generate a lot of songs which are all sounding almost the same, except for minor details. That’s not making music with AI, that’s taking an easy route and not fully focusing on whether the music that’s being generated can still be considered art.

Because in the end, music is art. And art should have a human face. AI can and should never replace humans, but it can help when making art. When art becomes AI and AI becomes art…, then where’s the human part of art? Where’s the part of actually creating something out of mind, making a concept, reviewing it, actively working on it, and eventually (hopefully) publishing it?

So; “Funk Ain’t Funky when it ain’t got soul”. That basically says it all: Music ain’t music when it ain’t got soul.

Referred songs, starting from being mentioned first:

Funk Ain’t Funky: