Peter Hook has blasted songs made using AI.
The former New Order and Joy Division bassist thinks the reliance on tech to pen songs is “s***” and insulting to legendary artists such as David Bowie who used their innate talent to create musical masterpieces.
Peter told The XS Noize Podcast: “When you look at someone as good as David Bowie at writing songs and marvel. ‘Drive-in Saturday’, ‘The Prettiest Star’.
“The guy was a genius. Songwriting is an art you cannot teach. AI is proof.
“Every AI song that has ever been written is s***.
“It’s full of them, but they’re crap because there’s something intangible that human beings have that a song captures.”
The 68-year-old musician now fronts the band Peter Hook and the Light and previously spoke of his joy at getting to play New Order tunes in the way he thinks fans want to hear them after years of disputes with former band-mate Bernard Sumner.
Peter exclusively told BANG Showbiz last year: “I was miserable playing the music with New Order and didn’t get the chance with Joy Division.
“So it’s now about finally being able to enjoy myself and play it with the right amount of passion and integrity.”
‘Hooky’ added: “The weirdest thing was that when New Order split up, I DJ’d for about three years and went all over the world and it absolutely fantastic – being paid to play other people’s music is really fantastic.
“But the thing was I really missed music, and people never stopped asking me, ‘When are you going to get back with New Order?’ and ‘Are New Order going to get back together again?’
“And I just thought, ‘We never celebrated anything to do with Joy Division as New Order, and we never celebrated anything with New Order when we were New Order.’
“It was a bit of a miserable existence and playing very few songs and ignoring hundreds of songs we had written. And I agreed with our fans that we should be playing these tracks, but we couldn’t play them because Bernard didn’t want to play them.”