Blanco Brown Talks Reclaiming His Sound From AI by Releasing His Own Version of ‘Walk My Walk’ | Billboard News

After an AI-generated song with a Blanco Brown-sounding vocal went viral, the country singer decided to release his own version of ‘Walk My Walk.’ He discusses why he chose to release his version of the song, who he believes is behind the artist and the creation of the AI-generated song, where he draws the ethical line when it comes to AI, and more!  

Melinda Newman:

How are you, sir? 

Blanco Brown:

I’m coming along. How about yourself? 

I’m very, very good. I want to jump in with, what did you think the first time you heard “Walk My Walk”? Did you feel it sounded like your style?

When I first heard it, I said, “Man, this right here has a lot of grit, and it reminds me of my tone, but he doesn’t sound like me.” I can just tell that I inspired him, but it’s like putting the two pieces together, knowing that somebody I mentored actually created him. Then it all started making sense, because people will actually hit me in my inbox and say, “Hey, man, there’s this song that’s going up the charts, and it seems like it could be No. 1 soon. It has a little reminiscing feel of like, how you approach songs” and, you know, that’s how it all started.

Did you think it was a good song? 

It was decent. It’s certain things in it that I would have changed, and I felt like it didn’t have a real human hand in it, like no real instrumentation. It was one big old loop, just one, you know, one thing, like somebody just — it didn’t grow or anything. 

Hey, you kind of said earlier that it was created by someone that you had worked with. We don’t know that for sure. Do you know that for sure? It seems like there’s a path from “Walk My Walk” to Abraham Abushmais, who you worked with on your first album in 2019, but we’re not 100% sure on the connect the dots. Are you? Have you heard from people that it’s 100% his creation? 

I mean, I’ve heard that he actually has a hand in the app that created the AI artist, and he told me that he was working on something that was in the tech field. So, I mean, two and two allegedly, maybe, maybe not, but, uh, definitely. I’ve heard so many people say he was a part of, like… 

Have you reached out to him? 

Yep, but I can’t get in touch with him. His number didn’t change, but we haven’t talked in like, maybe three years.

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