{"id":41071,"date":"2025-12-05T10:15:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T15:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/?p=41071"},"modified":"2026-01-23T02:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:56:32","slug":"xania-monet-sparks-debate-over-ai-usage-in-the-music-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/xania-monet-sparks-debate-over-ai-usage-in-the-music-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Xania Monet Sparks Debate Over AI Usage In The Music Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As artificial intelligence slithers into creative spaces, debate has sparked as to whether content created with the software should be treated with the same respect as that made by traditional artists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The discussions have been mostly one-sided, ending with a resounding \u201cno\u201d but that hasn\u2019t stopped studios from pushing to incorporate AI-generated music into the mainstream.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI avatar <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Xania Monet<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and her creator, Telisha Jones, recently signed a $3 million record deal with <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hallwood Media<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her debut song, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mUQCcfcpTek\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How Was I Supposed To Know?<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, reached No. 1 on the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Billboard R&amp;B Digital Songs Sales<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> chart.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the sake of giving it a fair shot, I listened to a couple of Monet\u2019s releases. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How Was I Supposed To Know? <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0is a heartstring pulling ballad about falling for doomed relationships. It has more than six million views on YouTube.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jones claims that she input poems about her own life into <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Suno<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014a music-generating app powered by AI\u2014to create Xania. The music resembles <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jazmine Sullivan<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tamar Braxton<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in style.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That isn\u2019t to say that imitation is inherently bad; lots of artists get inspired by others around them. Most would even find homages to their work endearing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But this feels different with less protection for an artists\u2019 copyright. Jones is facing some backlash from musicians like <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kehlani<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SZA<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/kehlani-trashes-ai-artist-getting-3-million-record-deal\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kehlani<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> said to fans in a since-deleted TikTok: \u201cIt can make the entire song, it can sing the entire song, it can make the entire beat, and they don\u2019t have to credit anyone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Suno also faces its own troubles. It has been hit with a mass copyright infringement <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/music\/music-industry-news\/warner-music-group-settles-ai-infringement-suit-with-suno-1236435516\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lawsuit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from studios like Sony Music Group and Universal Music Group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There could be a use of AI as a tool that eases the workload of artists without undercutting the actual work it takes to create original music. But that doesn\u2019t seem to be what Monet or other AI-generated artists are doing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This iteration, a chimera with its ever-changing voice and chopped and screwed visuals, just feels like a studio executive&#8217;s dream of having complete creative control over a money-making entity they don\u2019t have to pay.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisac.org\/Newsroom\/news-releases\/global-economic-study-shows-human-creators-future-risk-generative-ai\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">study conducted by the<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which represents more than four million artists, found that creators in musical and audiovisual mediums are set to be at risk of losing between 21 to 24 % of their revenue, respectively, by 2028 because of AI.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only time will tell if AI-generated content is a passing trend or if it\u2019s here to stay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As artificial intelligence slithers into creative spaces, debate has sparked as to whether content created with the software should be treated with the same respect as that made by traditional artists. 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