Merrai Christmais

Artificial intelligence and Christmas songs; if you can have Chat GTP write your essay, you surely can have AI (or an AI-music app like Suno) write a Christmas song. When I was over at the Falalala-forum (HERE), I found some cussin' and grumbling about the stream of AI-generated Christmas songs this year.
Case in point:

Apart from the generic seasonal songs (also try this 'punk' track), there's the trend of unearthing 'lost' Christmas songs from the past. For instance, this one: Of course, there never was a Tammi Bell on the soul scene, not now, not in the past. She's, in the words of her creator, 'a figure of our imagination'. But lord almighty, this one's done VERY good. As I understand it, the lyrics are written by a real human.

Another trend; profane Christmas songs, sounding like musical numbers from yesteryear. There's a full album of this sh*t. Confession: I laughed way too loud listening to this:
More? This one I found on the Falalala-forum. It's from this guy, I'm again sorry to say that I think this is really really funny:

And than there's this. Michel Bouman is a fellow Dutchie from the wonderful city of Dordrecht, who played in several bands in the 90s, and now makes music on his own. I found his rocking, Foo-Fighter-ish Christmas songs on Soundcloud, thought they were really good.

Michel Bouman · No Gifts Tonight

I emailed with Michel on how he makes his music, for I was suspecting help from AI. Michel was really open about his recording process, he does play drums and guitars himself, uses plug-ins and pre-sets and help from Bandlab for the mastering. Michel says that he 'hates singing' and uses software for the vocals. As I understand it, he can tweak his own voice the way he likes it.

Is this cheating? I think not. It's still a musician making music, with some help. Just like the Tammi Bell song and that Untraceable Records-album, there IS some human creativity involved.