Mumbai: Shaan has slammed the new generation of singers for using artificial intelligence (AI) to clone songs in the voice of another singer.
Criticising the AI song voice swap, Shaan called it ‘cruel’ and an inappropriate way of remembering the legendary singers.
“I find this AI very cruel when they try to produce songs like ‘Yeh gaana agar Kishore da gaate, yeh gaana agar Mohammed Rafi gaate (If this song was sung by Kishore Kumar and Mohammed Rafi). What they sang in the 40s, what they sang in the 60s, and what they sang in the 80s were very different. So, if they were singing today, it would again be very different,” opined Shaan.
“It is wrong that you make that song sound like they would sing it like that. Not necessary. You can’t AI a person whose singing has been so dynamic. So it’s wrong that you take the tone of any four songs and make tons of tracks and covers with that,” added the singer who has sung multiple superhit songs such as ‘Chand sifarish’, ‘Jab se tere naina’, ‘Hey shona’, and ‘Char kadam’.
Calling the audience “silly”, he slammed the new generation for using AI to produce the ‘Saiyaara’ song in Kishore Kumar’s voice.
Urging music lovers not to listen to AI tracks, he said: “The audience is so silly, they’re even comparing it with them. I’m just saying they shouldn’t do this AI. But the new generation has heard Kishore Kumar’s voice in Saiyaara or some other thing. That is not fair, man. They should hear his songs that he has sung in his time, which came out of his throat, came out of his sensibilities. Yes. Do not listen to this.”
On the work front, Shaan will be paying tribute to Kishore Kumar by performing his songs at Mumbai’s Grand Theatre, NMACC, on September 19.
Presented by NR Talent and Event Management, the show has been titled ‘Forever Kishore Shaan Se’.
The tickets of the concert will be available on BookMyShow.
