I could have used AI later, after the fact, to help organize what I was trying to say. It may have helped me find a phrase, a rhyme, or shape the story into something clearer for listeners. I am not against that. Tools can be useful.
But a tool cannot remember the hospital room from inside my skin.
It cannot know what it feels like to reach the end of your own strength. It cannot bear the emotion first and find the words later. It can only work with what a human being brings to it.
That is why I don't want you to feel intimidated by AI.
Yes, it can create quickly. It can imitate patterns and help you get unstuck when the blank page is staring back at you.
But your unique contribution is still yours.
The visceral experience comes from you. The reason a song needed to exist in the first place comes from the human in the room.
This is why your story is becoming more important, not less.
When listeners hear your music, they may love the melody or connect with a lyric right away. But when they understand the human experience behind it, the song has a more profound impact and deeper resonance.
Someone hearing Healing Waters does not need every private detail from that hospital stay. But if they know it came from a moment when I was sick, weak, and crying out for healing, and I can add the additional context in my song intro that I finally got to take a shower after 5 days in the same awful hospital gown hooked up to machines, they will feel the significance of the healing waters idea. They can almost feel the warm, healing water on their skin
That is connection.
So yes, use the tools if they serve you (and they definitely can). Let AI help you sort through a messy list of random phrases. Let it give you options when your brain is tired. Let it help you express something with more clarity and influence.
Just do not confuse the assistant with the artist.
The raw material is your life. Your ideas, your memories, your faith, your questions, your humor, your heartbreak, your way of seeing the world. AI can help arrange those pieces, but it cannot originate them from a life it never lived.
AI was not in that hospital room.
The rooms where your songs were born are sacred spaces that only you can write from. Lean into that even more now.
Don't let AI smooth out your raw material. It will definitely try to. That glossy finish is alluring, but it is a trap of mediocrity that will weigh your music down, preventing it from rising to the top so the right people can discover it.
Fight to keep your humanity front and center in your music, your writing, and your living.
I've give you practical ways to do this during my upcoming mastermind event. Check the details below. If outside-the-box strategies and a human-first approach is your vibe, be sure to register..
Always in your corner,
β<3 Bree
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