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Never pause a Saint Motel concert...

Whatcha doin' A/J?

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preach!

I know I’ve ranted about starset on here before, but I’m genuinely starting to lose faith in them.

Because why in the HELL would you be so anti-AI in modern times and then all of sudden start posting AI generated music videos? That’d be like me saying “pollution is wrong and no one should ever do it” and then chucking a plastic bottle into the ocean. Sure, you can cover it up by saying “Well big corporations and people do it all the time, I’m just showing what they do while being against it”, but in the end, you still contributed to the problem.

There’s a reason why starset fans always push fanart and fan creations out more than anything else. It’s because we respect human effort. Hell, starset has a whole lyric video DEDICATED TO FAN CREATED ANIMATIONS AND DRAWINGS. If you already have something like that up, then it makes no sense for you to suddenly jump to using AI and dismissing it as “harmless.”

It’s no secret that AI is replacing humans in many ways. That’s why this is so frustrating. As far as I know, dustin would commission many artists to help with art, production etc. And while I’m sure he does still do that, there’s no doubt that the artist he’s working with is using AI. I’m not sure if they came out and said that the artist has came out and said so, but it’s painfully obvious that it is.

Go watch the newest MVs they have up on their channel (ESPECIALLY THAT GOD AWFUL HEAD OVER HEELS VIDEO, THAT ONE IS THE WORST) and you’ll understand what I mean. It hurts to look at considering the imagery of their other videos.

Many of their old videos were seriously like short films that just happened to have music in the background. Go watch the “Ricochet”, “The Breach”, or the “Halo” MVs especially, those stick out to me. You’ll feel the fact that those videos have insane effort behind them, like they have heart and soul. The “Echo” video especially needs mentioning since the incredible artwork it has.

I’m hoping starset as a band sees the complaints and changes, because I’ve been legitimately turned off from them now. And this is coming from someone who has a signed poster and used to only listen to them for the longest time. Nowadays I’m just like “oh, starset dropped”, and then I watch it maybe a week later. I used to be so excited when they dropped new music that I would drop everything I was doing to pay full attention to them.

So please, stop the AI art use. Idc if I’m being overly sensitive about it, it’s been a hot issue for me since I have many friends who are incredible artists. I hate seeing such talented people being replaced by a soulless art machine who copied from the talented artists it wants to so desperately replace.

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Starset but Rain Worl

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Saint Motel just closed off their tour, as a band does, but why did the article I just read have to word it like they were saying farewell, and disbanding? I almost had a heart attack.

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encountered a wild Aaron after the show in Chicago

A/J Jackson is real apparently

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get in, we don't have time to explain. Come on!

Blessed by the Starset car

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Title

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Aniversary

Happy Aetherborne day!

Chime's Album is two! Get your Bittersweet Butterflies, turn from Atoms to Pixels, climb Beyond the Peak and sing your Intermolecular Lullabies, it's party time.

As a certified unhinged music freak, it is my right to turn the aniversary of my favorite album into a personal holiday.

From Sherwood to Subterrain to the Cloud Factory, let's listen to the Zephyrs blow and the flowers Bloom. We'll Escape Velocity and Burn the Mind, then chill in the Homeworld.

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Saint Motel is just AJR but Tally Hall

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Rain worl art month stuff

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A/J Jackson but he grew wings somehow, also car fire smores.

yeet

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YEEEEEESSS. LAUNCH HIM!

I should draw that lol.

"Fire A/J Jackson into space!"

Me, watching the 'Get It At Home' music video

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Stop going batshit about Saint Motel and STARSET, and acknowlage your other 24 favorite music people.

I don't know about you, but that's not how my hyperfixations work. Eat it Teminite.

"How the heck did I avoid getting a massive crush on A/J Jackson AND/OR Dustin Bates."

Wait, I mean... when you've been hyperfixating your brains out over cool music people for 5 years straight, how cute they are really stops being important.

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Starset time!

For context, the guy in the 2nd photo is Psognar, he's a very underrated music producer who does a lot of dubstep. His real name is also Dustin, and he does have that sci-fi aesthetic.

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Drew the lad

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My answer: Teminite, Psognar, Chime - Monster

Dodie;

King Princess(Adventure Time);

Imagine Dragons;

STARSET;

Skillet;

Meg & Dia;

Lady Gaga;

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I generally don't comment on Fandom Drama™ but I feel like it needs to be said in this case--

Starset using AI in the music video for Degenerate is the whole point

it’s been confirmed by the band that a team of artists were paid to create art to feed AI to create the visualizer

and maybe I'm putting too much faith in them-- but for the messaging of their music, it really blew my mind that people had to ask for confirmation that the use of AI was intentional/ironic

like, there was a two-album story arc about the dangers of unchecked technology in the hands of people who are willing to exploit others

hell, the lyrics of Degenerate itself are commenting on it--

[Verse 2] Artificial sickness Artificial pain Manufactured victims Of manufactured gains (It's all the same)

of course, I don't know the whole story, so take my commentary with a grain of salt, but I think it's really alarming to see the knee-jerk reactions many people have been posting all over social media