When Fake Bands Score Real Hits
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 K-Pop Demon Hunters is v good
00:44 A History of Made-Up Artists
02:09 Let’s Compare Three of These Artists
02:57 oh no
03:35 Xania Monet
04:29 Can these artists release music?
04:52 Can they perform live?
05:32 Can their IP be used in different media?
07:24 Do they replace humans?
09:06 Do they have soul?
12:36 Can they exist once their creators are gone?
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Video by Pressmaster
@Adams.Record.Collection
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
Interesting video but now all I can think is I want a Gorillaz/Huntrix collab!
@MifaVT
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
4:10 Hatsune Miku. That is all that should be said. Hatsune Miku.
@VexTheFemboy
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
Why can't Soviet propaganda be on the top? Or Finnish folk music? Trust me, Säkkijärven polkka goes hard
@AlmondWizard
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
That ai clip you showed at the end looked like it was made by the annoying orange 🥀
@Gio_Panda
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
Moreover, Zania's output is a statistical average of music other people have made.
@piotrgradkowski6810
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
@2:00 I'm kinda disappointed that you didn't mention Marvin Berry and the Starlighters (Back To The Future) or The Lubmerzacks (Milo Murphy's Law) among the prominent fake bands.
@KorporalNoobs
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
I kinda wonder how Kessoku Band slots in.
A band from a manga, getting a score for the anime, having a month long number 1 album in Japan, releasing another album and Ep's, live shows at big venues and the voice actors of the show doing the singing and occasionally even the instruments.
@DarthFlauschi
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
Mouse Rat.
@Cupcakesforlife
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
Do these people not realize that fictional bands and AI are two different things 🤦🏻♀🤦🏻♀
@colefitzpatrick8431
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
People who like Xania have to be paid for or are bots, or some combination of the two. Have to be. Motherfucker all social media is propaganda
@DigitalRag3X
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
1:36 shrek jump scare
@alanashy3514
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
"Huntrix cannot perform because they're not real" have you ever of holograms
@EndlessVoid000
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
How about we just accept that “soul” in art is whatever makes individual humans emotionally respond, and stop pretending it’s some objective property that separates Real Art from fake slop? Treat it for what it actually is: a label for an experience, not a metaphysical substance—and one that has nothing to do with how the work was produced. It’s not in the work; it’s in you when you experience it.
Is that really so radical? Because that’s exactly what this looks like. And, conveniently, it’s also the position backed by most serious authorship and art theory from the last sixty years.
@EddieLamMusic
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
California Raisins! 😛
@irishthresher8428
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
8:13 the kids just dont stop XD
@FigWidIt
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
Damn… No Big Time Rush from Nickelodean?
@nipulkradmsinatagras8293
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
With 5 Grammy Nominations and a certified DOUBLE PLATINUM status, it's not a surprise that at this point, the world definitely made the right people famous.
@Maynardjones100
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
Haven’t laughed with a YouTube video in years as I did at 2:57
@smcdonough1427
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
Damn I thought you were going to talk about KDH, not whine about AI art like every other YouTuber your age does all day every day. Fucking boring
@ekozoidmajiker6186
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
yeah it's possible for Xania Monet to have a hologram (Hatsune Miku style)
@jdblanset
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
I'm wondering why you hesitate to decide whether Gorillaz can be separated from Albarn, but don't blink in saying that HUNTR/X can live on without Ejae. In fact, I don't even think you said Ejae's name!
Yes, HUNTR/X is a collaborative project of writers, musicians, and animators. But a huge part of who they are is Ejae, informed by her almost 2 decades of experience in the kpop industry, writing producing + singing with dozens of bands. HUNTR/X is much closer to Gorillaz than they are to Xenia.
@selalewis9189
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
My biggest issue with this Xania Monet that there’s an actual genuinely talented R&B artist out here named Victoria Monet. She won Best New Artist at the Grammys a few years ago and has a fantastic album, Jaguar II . Her career is starting to take off and here comes this AI doll that could undermine or harm her career. Even some of Xania’s renderings look a little like Victoria. I’m not sure if the so-called songwriter who made this avatar understands the larger implications of what she’s doing.
@MeredithPutvin
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
They are an actual band now
@Ziggy-meister
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
12:20 The Inkspots have basically the same tune in the beginning of their songs. (They made “I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire”)
@へゼルヌット
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
Kessoku band from Bocchi the rock is one of my favorite bands, I think they've even done some live performances. They also released some of their albums on cds and vinyl
@NecSchel
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
Actually, creating an imaginary band by unknown artists, and then passing on this imaginary band to other unknown artists several decades later has already happened:
"The Residents"
Look them up!
@KingJAB_
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
The difference is obvious. Fake bands with real artists and singers are good. Ai slop made by a corporate slop machine like suno is not made by an artist, is generated from a machine trained on copyrighted material, and is bad. I suppose you could make an interesting argument if the video was about vocaloid, but no. You made it about Huntrix? Btw, my stance is: real singers are good, vocaloid and synthV are good, and suno/other ai slop is bad
@mooshdragodile
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
There's been a ton of drama recently for VocalSynth fans over ai. It sucks because VocalSynths have been doing everything pretty correct.
It's made using proper permission from voice providers and pays them for the work, while also being an ACTUAL tool that you can creatively express yourself with and requires skill and practice to use rather than a machine that does everything for you from a prompt.
Yet people disregard it as just "ai vocals" which do the complete opposite…
@cameronstelmach7713
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
the 2 seconds of geese
@abel_36
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
We already got vocaloids that actually need talent to work with. What market is an "AI artist" for except maybe for the novelty of it?
@TheCourtneydav
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
You should also check out the alternate personas for the kpop group Aespa. It's an avatar called Naevis, I don't think its ai but it has its own songs and performed at their us tour – it was more like a music video from what i have seen, most fans don't care for it.
@Sailor11Sedna
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
This was the year I finally watched the Blues Brothers. Two real actors (Dan Akroid and the late John Belushi) playing two fictional characters in a fictional band. Their same bandmates from the movie were there when they performed on SNL. They all absolutely put real work in, although some of the flashier dance moves in the movie were from a stunt double… a hard-working stunt double. Also, the movie destroyed 106 real cars.
Shall I draw your attention to the Splatoon franchise? It’s a series of hit Nintendo video games. Like all video games, Splatoon has a soundtrack, but the world building is so rich that over 95% of the music is in-universe, meaning it’s credited to artists who exist in the games’ setting. They’re (non-playable) characters in the game, sometimes with important story roles and well-developed personalities. The songs use vocaloid software. A real singer recorded sounds that were put in a voicebank and modified, all with these real singers’ permission and participation. They went for a lot of echoes and oscillation, to fit the setting of a far future where squid people reinvented 90s culture. (As far as humans go, it’s not for everyone. There’s some tracks that work because they’re weird.) Also, the major characters have performed live in actual modern day Japan. Fake singers, real instruments and DJs.
AI… it’s unfortunate. If your dream was to develop your lyrics into real songs, you could go to a forum where you can find someone whose dream is to become a good composer, and is looking for lyrics, and then find a potential singer looking for songs. Hire, collaborate, split the spoils. If the singer is shy, collaborate with an animator or maybe a dance group. If you’re subscribing to an AI and having it do all those parts for you, the ones getting rich are the big companies, and people who want to develop their careers might be looking for that opportunity. I’m not mad if you enjoy the AI songs… but don’t pay for them.
@HasturAS
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
No mention of warframe's on-lyne… Damn…
@bgelais
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
You want to hear about a fake band, see my band We'Re Just Old Punks, music made by me, only AI voice change (Jammable) as implied.
@1stBasemanPetenice
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
All I have to say is fuck ai
@SilentClouds
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
You forgot to mention that AI music has a very distinctive fuzz. And It's not like the typical noise on real recordings, It seems to come up separately with every instrument or vocal in the song. Also the instruments are inconsistent especially the quieter ones. You'd have a hard time tracking them as they fade in and out and distort .
@ElOuJi_Music
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
i feel like the best example of a "fake artist" is Hatsune Miku or just vocaloid in general.
The thing is, ANYONE can make a song with vocaloid characters since they're just a synthesized voice. And, not only do (most of them) HAVE a streaming servive account, but they can be credited on a (for example) spotify song.
The difference between AI artists and vocaloid is that there are REAL PEOPLE working on vocaloid songs. Real producers, real song writers, etc. But with Xania Monet's case, it's just a girl writing a song, ctrl+c ctrl+v on Suno and a new song is made.
There is REAL effort put into vocaloid songs and that's why they can enter the list of fake bands/artists
@orangeflavoredtoothpaste7420
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
3:48
The way this is described is almost 1 to 1 with Vocaloid producers. This shit is just Evil Miku in the worst possible way.
@NeuroNovaLiza
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
How come I'm a band that's not real and I see no success)
Well only one single out, but It's better to be indie then having evil corps creep behind your back
@JackieDoses
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
Noticed that you avoided discussing the middle ground between human and generative which is human musicians who put a sizable percentage of their musicianship into otherwise AI generated work. A musician who, say, writes lyrics, records a scratch track of their initial song containing either the full arrangement or some part(s) of the full arrangement, or even something general in the direction they'd like the song to go and then has AI make a cover version of their work? That enough humanity? If no, what if they then take the stems from the AI generation into a DAW, replacing or adding tracks with more of their own playing? You wind up with a song with a high percent of human authorship made through a collaborative use of AI. Not an academic thought as many musicians use Suno this way, myself among them. Does your hatred for AI extend to real musicians using it as a sort of force multiplier for their own skills? I'd hope not.
@PallasPat
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
This video is very good but it is really missing a discussion of Japan's virtual artist scene. They have been doing the whole animated character music performer thing for a while now. It's a huge rabbit hole but I feel like it's worth it if you are really interested in the topic of this video. Especially if you want to know what a concert for a "fake band" could look like. The answer is screens and lots of them with the animated artists on them with both prerecorded and live dancing, singing and in some rare cases playing instruments. The two best examples of artists to check out I'd say are Hatsune Miku and Hoshimachi Suisei. Both are huge number 1 charting artists who have played the biggest venues in Japan but Miku is a vocaloid or voice synth module and Suisei is a real person playing a character that she created herself. Generative AI is involved in none of these artists production and is the work of alot of talented people working together to create some very unique, catchy and fun music.
@solidmeboi5487
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
8:11 the only way this is oassable is if she actually uses her vouce if shes just writing lyrics into a prompt its no more than a grifter. Pretty cut and dry
@jmm8476
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
And xania is supposed to be Christian right? A very very sexy Christian robot. With just a Magdalenian amount of décolletage out there.
So stupid. People are full of shit.
@SaddieMoon
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
I think religion is really weird, especially when people claim weird stuff like only humans having souls. Like who told you that? Yourself? Family?
I think it’s weird to assume that animals don’t have sentients nor a soul but do with humans, just because one acts like a human and the other doesn’t. Idk, it’s one of many reasons why I’m not into religions.
Hell same thing goes for bots. Once you program sentients into them, I think they have a soul at that point because all it is is the compacity to think, to me. And I don’t believe souls are real, until I learn otherwise. I don’t even think sentients can’t be programmed into robots since we humans exist. To me *We Are Robots*, not physically I guess, but we are still made in a bunch of parts working together to create a living creature. Power = “Alive” to me as well.
Sorry, I just got to here 10:48 and it made me want to go off topic with how we treat animals as lesser.
@trbdann2
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
Best 'fake' band : S*x Bo-bombs !!!! from Scott Pilgrim
I didn't even know the Monkeys weren't a 'real' band! :O
@taeeat12
February 25, 2026 at 4:14 am
Ts so ass bruh
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