Tyler Cowen says AI music may deliver the next real wave of freshness
aquariusacquah · x · 2026-07-24
Tyler Cowen argues that rap has largely gone stale and that electronic music has already been exhausted—for now.
His bigger point is that he is now waiting for AI music to get genuinely good, suggesting the next leap in freshness may come from machine-generated music rather than another human-led genre wave.
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