# @mashable on TikTok

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.tiktok.com/@mashable/video/7522220994430291230
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/32001845-mashable-tiktok
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- **Posted:** 2025-07-01T20:59:24.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Mashable (@mashable) — https://gondola.cc/mashable

## Caption

Have you heard of The Velvet Sundown? It's kind of like The Velvet Underground, except The Velvet Underground is definitely real, and the jury is still out for The Velvet Sundown. The band's photos look remarkably AI-generated — too clean, not quite textured enough, oddly inhuman, yet it has racked up more than 372,000 monthly listeners on Spotify.  Their bio purports that it was formed by singer and mellotron player Gabe Farrow, guitarist Lennie West, synth player Milo Raines, and percussionist Orion "Rio" Del Mar. None of them has ever been interviewed. And, not that a social media account is necessarily proof of life, but none of them have an Instagram, TikTok, or Facebook account — and neither does the band itself. In fact, none of the band members seems to have a single shred of an internet presence. The song credits on Spotify are also a bit suspicious. Most artists will have multiple people in the credits, but the credits on Spotify for every single one of their songs are "Performed by," "Written by," and "Source" by The Velvet Sundown. There is no producer listed. Are they playing with us? Listening to the band myself, it does sound AI-generated — the lyrics lack specificity, and the music itself lacks depth. But it's also kind of... fine music? While the band hasn't confirmed that it's AI-generated, it has also done little to prove people wrong. Music Radar says it "bears the unmistakably lo-fi veneer of a Suno creation." One Reddit post says there isn't a "shred of evidence on the internet that this band has ever existed." But, in the end, there's no actual proof that the band is generated by AI, and therein lies the struggle. When AI music becomes this difficult to catch, whose job is it to catch it? The trouble has led some users to post their disappointment in Spotify for not informing listeners that the band is or is not AI-generated. "We should be boycotting Spotify by now," one person said on Reddit, and another person responded by pointing out that the band is also on Apple Music and Amazon Music. Spotify did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Mashable. #ai #artificialintelligence #music #musiciansoftiktok #rockmusic #spotify 

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music, spotify, ai, artificialintelligence, rockmusic, musiciansoftiktok

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