My friend Manley Miller wrote this song within the expansive confines of his brightly lit mind.

He then produced the song with the help of an AI tool that allows us writers to add the sticky melodics that add the sugar required to make the medicine carried by the music taste more sweet.

I am fascinated by the people who sniff and say, “I don’t like AI music because it lacks a human connection.”

Someone very close to me said this to me recently, so I told him the same thing that I’ve told the other 1,472 people who have stabbed me with that same knife. 

“I would absolutely use human singers and human musicians to sing these songs that we are writing if such a thing were possible. But it is not possible. We are writing and posting an average of more than two songs a day across the TribalGospel and GreatWritersSeries and Absurdocrats channels. Even if the money were available to pay all the singers and musicians, I don’t believe a system exists that would allow us to produce 14 very different songs each week.”

I do not use AI to help me write. Ever.

Neither does Manley Miller. 

The thing that fascinates me the most, I think, is that so few people realize that most hit songs were not written by the singers and the bands that made them famous. They certainly added the delivery techniques – the arrangement and production – that gave the song a pleasant taste and made the message easy to swallow. But they did not write those songs.

The singers of those hit songs may or may not understand what was pouring out of the souls of the writers, but they know how to play the music and deliver the words as though they genuinely feel what the writer was feeling. 

I am not saying that singers never feel what they are singing. I am saying that they don’t have to feel it to make YOU feel it. Professional singers are professional. They know their craft and they do it well. 

The listening public doesn’t bond with the writer who created that song for them. They bond with the singers and musicians who create the wonderful noises to deliver what the songwriter wrote.

As a full-time, all-day every day writer, I stand firmly in the center of that relatively small and invisible group who says, “The song that is flowing from the mouth of the singer-that-you-love came to life and was born in my heart. I am the person who gave it to the singer who gave it to you. I hope that it makes you feel what I was hoping you would feel.”

Roy H. Williams

PS – This is why the performers that I admire the most are those singer/songwriters who personally arrange and deliver the words they have written. So now you know why James Taylor and Paul Simon are my all-time favorite artists. I’m sure that you have your favorites, too.

By the way, the thumbnail of the song below is an oil painting by Marcel Flisiuk, to whom I pay a royalty every time I use one of his images. I have mentioned Marcel to you before, I think.