I gotta say, rewatching Carole & Tuesday now feels very different than it used to. It hits so much closer to home now, it feels like watching some kind of fatalistic future.
Everything is created by AI, huge companies and influential producers control the market and only spew out the same formula-tested hits "based on" (irl: stolen) the styles of great artists from the past. And then these two girls come by and they write their own music and people want to listen to it. People are moved by it.
And all the tech bros get so mad, and question them, who writes those songs for you? where did you get the technology for this? And they can't seem to understand that there's heart in their music, that they love what they do and that's why it's good. "People say human-written songs have a certain warmth that AI cannot replicate, but you just need to adjust the heartwarming parameters in the algorithm and—" and they don't get it!!!! They don't get it! So blinded by greed and wanting to make easy money that they ignore the humanity of it all. The game is rigged but no one's happy about it. You can't just substitute humanity with techology!
I know the second season is all about racism and immigration rights and censorship, and that's what people remember this show for, but god the first season is so vehemetely anti-AI for being made before the current "AI" thing ever began... It's a world where AI is everywhere but consistently fails to be anything but mediocre at best. The good pizza place is the one that grows their own tomatoes on the roof. The songs that inspired Gus when he was young were written by a disabled intersex man on his one piano. The thing that makes the girls' music good is that they write it with passion, about their feelings and their lived experiences. And even in that fictional future with hyper-advanced technology, that's something AI can not imitate.
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