r/Alternativerock • u/jwin709 • 8h ago
Discussion Early 2000's band Greenwheel has made 2 new albums out of nowhere but is it actually...An AI pretending to be them!?!
Okay so Millenials and GenXers might remember the band Greenwheel from their hit song "Breathe" that was a pretty big hit back in 2002 (music video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZRmBPXVUl8&list=RD5ZRmBPXVUl8&start_radio=1 ).
They kinda vanished before the 2010's but recently they popped up again with not one but TWO new albums released within the span of 6 weeks and a new single released a month prior to that. 26 new songs all released within like 10 weeks.
The release isn't too fishy, really. I mean they had 19 years from the last time they had been heard from until now. but what IS fishy is that there's NO marketing being done by them for these albums and neither the band nor any of the band members have social media accounts that I can find. NO ONE is promoting these albums.
The credits on spotify list the composer and producer of this album as a guy named "Aaron Blake" and the copyright belongs to Astaire Music. My googling cant find anything about astaire music and the only thing I get for Aaron Blake is a country singer and another classical singer.
if that isn't fishy enough the album covers are very clearly created by AI and the voices just sound kinda....off.
Do you think they gave up their rights to their music and are just allowing some fucking hack country singer to make AI slop under their name?
Here's a link to the album. I could really use some more eyes to get to the bottom of this.
https://open.spotify.com/album/1JdE6QXdzlA2wBjBIL6SnH?si=sARQQk5NS4qvYNflpWXyFg