Rich Austin - You Can Call Me A.I. (Parody of You Can Call Me Al - satirising A.I.)

A truly unique and timely parody of one the worlds most beloved pop songs of the last 40 years, You Can Call Me AI leans on the Paul Simon classic, You Can Call Me AL, to deliver a stinging and timely warning siren to the dangers of modern AI technologies and the threat they pose to the creative arts and wider culture as we know it.

Songwriter, Rich Austin & filmmaker, Chris Watney have, by adapting a timeless classic, written a new and unique parody that serves as a razor sharp assessment of these troubling modern times - where culture as we know it is at risk, at the hands of a soulless technology.

Using AI itself to help sound the alarm, the songs vocal sings from two perspectives. One, from the point of view of a struggling, defeated and crestfallen creative… Whilst the second, is the voice of AI itself, taunting the artists, gloating that AI will be robbing bread off their tables without a smidgen of compassion.

In the video, we see our protagonist - human creativity - be all consumed and murdered by the AI technology that is coming for our arts.

The song was written by Rich Austin & Chris Watney
Lyrics: Chris Watney & Rich Austin
Performed by Rich Austin
Recorded by Felipe Rojas
AI vocal creation: ‪@Thompson_James‬
The video was directed by Chris Watney

Lyrics:

A man walks down the he says
“What's the point of trying anymore?
What’s the point of trying anymore?
When they make our lives so hard
Creating faux intelligence
It’s gone past comprehension
Don’t want to end up deleted
In a "virtual graveyard”
Creatives, creatives
Dogs to the slaughter
They’ve worked so hard, so often ignored.
Mr A.I. , A.I.
“I’ll kill your professions off, you know?
I don't really care for you anymore.”

If you’ve been an artist
I am here to watch you die.
I will take your money,
And Buddy when you call me,
You can call me A.I.

A man walks down the street he says,
“Where is my appreciation and a
Who values my latest creation and
Oooh, my nights are so long
Who’ll pay bills or rental fees?
What if I die here?
Like our business model
Now that our day jobs are gone, gone?”
He skulked back down the alley to his
Holy moly bitter and disgruntled world.
All along, along
There were boffins with their calculations
Creating cheats not occupations anymore.

If you’ve been an artist
I am here to watch you die.
I will take your money,
And Buddy when you call me,
You can call me A.I.

A man walks down the street
It's a street in a strange world
Maybe it's a third world
Maybe it’s his first time around
Doesn't speak the language
He holds no currency
He is a foreign man
He is surrounded by the sound, the sound
Of the coding in the Metaverse
Ai souls looking lost and alone
He looks around, around
He sees death in the art of culture
Spinning in infinity
He screams, “Hell! Don’t let them kill us!”

If you’ve been an artist
I am here to watch you die.
I will take your money,
And Buddy when you call me,
You can call me A.I.

If you’ve been an artist
I am here to watch you die.
I will take your money,
And Buddy when you call me,
You can call me A.I.

If you’ve been an artist. I will take your money.

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