A new Message to cheer Me up on a very Hard Day and my Thoughts about AI Assisted Music

Above: Far Parisian Banlieue, waiting for my train to take me back to Dear Old Paris.

Photograph taken by me yesterday.

Yesterday I had a very hard day in Alcatraz, too much boring digital work to do late in the morning and in the afternoon, and in the evening I was so exhausted that I left many articles sleeping in the drafts: one about my Sunday lunch with a Lovely Sparrow, another one on cuddling a Dog Afraid, and another about a fantastic trompe-l'œil... and an unfinished one about the new message from Morrissey on Central that entertained me yesterday, during my (very late, malgré moi) lunchtime.

Here is the whole article, finished today, after a long, exhausting remote working day, due to what happened at school yesterday.

It was almost 3 P. M., but I could not leave Alcatraz earlier, due to a new mortiers de pétards attack in the school's hall. When this happened, there were not any students in the classroom, as my last course had finished almost one hour before the attack, but I was still there and very busy, writing the cahier the textes en ligne for the rest of the week and some e-mails.

The silly pétomanes, as I call these wannabe revolutionaries who are neither Guy Fawkes nor Pietro Micca, had already blown up many mortiers de pétards outside Alcatraz early in the morning. I am the only one who worries not only about the kids, but also about the poor birds and other animals who are constantly scared by these Puppets who think they are making the 2.0. version of the French Revolution. Wake up, guys! Nobody at the Assemblée Nationale care about you and the media are just glad to spit on the Youth and to distract the public opinion from the real problems in France.

Of course, among these Puppets there are many angry young people who are not even students and a also a bunch of lazy students who think it is clever to intimidate the ones who want to go to school. I understand that they don't give a flying f... about school (who really likes going to school?) but why the hell don't they stay at home and enjoy a grasse matinée, instead of scaring the other students?

Moreover, as the majority of the students are not rich, and many of them are even poor, they cannot pay private lessons for their enseignements de specialité and they will be in trouble for the Baccalauréat exams and Parcoursup(positoire) because nothing will change; otherwise, the Déforme, as I call the bloody Réforme du Baccalauréat, would have been already thrashed four years ago.

Well, it was almost 3 P. M., I was very hungry and waiting for my veggie coquillettes when I thought I would have found some news on Morrissey's official website, and once again I was right: a repost of Analog Shift Register's cover of Morrissey's lost studio track Blue Dreamers Eyes that his nephew Sam Esty Rayner shared on YouTube in 2018.

As I was exhausted, I must confess that I misread the name of the YouTube artist and I let you guess which letter in which word my poor eyes had not seen at first.

I watched the AI video, probably inspired by The Groundhog Day, with a Rupert Everett look-alike Morrissey from The Smiths' era and an imaginary girl from the Sixties with an abominable French fringe - a haircut that does not look awful only if you are Louise Brooks or Liza Minnelli, otherwise it should be banned from every civilized Country. I'd rather shave my head like the regretted Sinéad O'Connor than have a fringe, and that's saying something for someone who, when she was a small child, was strongly impressed by the biblical story of Samson and vehemently protested every time she had to go the hairdresser. I couldn't stand the hairdresser I was forced to go during my childhood, but the one where I was forced to go during my teens was even worse: he constantly criticized my "big" forehead and my "masculine" (sic) high hairline and always failed in the attempt to persuade me to have a bloody French fringe in order to hide my hairline and my forehead. It was utterly unkind of him to say these things to a teenage girl and I was too polite to tell him to put a wig on, in order to hide his bald empty head, but, even if his nasty remarks hurted me, my natural stubborness made me impervious to his unwanted advice.

But I am digressing...

Back to the cover of Blue Dreamers Eyes: if the video is boring and - to me - very syrupy, the music is not bad and Morrissey's vocals are faithfully imitated by the female singer; but the real human voice (a friend of ASR) is heavily AI-processed and, even if AI is sooo trendy everywhere and huge in Asia (ASR are from Hong Kong), I wish it was a cover made by a 100% human singer and 100% human musicians, and I totally disagree with what Analog Shift Register affirm in the "About" section of their YouTube channel (see the screenshots below) and especially with the last part.

My thoughts are below the screenshots.

Human artists are irreplaceable and I care as much about the singer as I care about the music, and both are way better when they are made by 100% human beings.

And, of course, even if there are many good singers covering Morrissey's songs, nobody can sing them better than the man himself. By the way, kudos to Boz Boorer for writing the music of Blue Dreamer's Eyes and many other beautiful songs.

I hope one day a whole album of Morrissey's lost tracks will be released, or to have these lost tracks released along with Bonfire of Teenagers, on a deluxe album version.

Anyway, it was an interesting entertainment during my lunchtime and I guess the bitter obsessed "M-soloers" who complain about everything Morrissey says, sings, does, wears (I hope they do not have a partner, as they are the kind or people who poison their wife's or husband's and their childrens' life) are spending hours on the forum moaning about Morrissey sharing this cover on his official website and insulting him, SER and the guys behind the ASR project, instead of thinking that, even if AI assisted or (even worse) AI generated music is not, and it will never be as good as real human music, people choosing an unreleased Morrissey's song are well-informed fans, and Morrissey, indeed, has lots of fans in Asia since the late Eighties.

By the way, thanks to SER for sharing the lost tracks on his YouTube channel.

Article AI-free written by me, photograph by me, also AI-free. I was born stubborn. :)

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