TikTok’s AI ‘Text to Song’ Trend May Be a Sign of Music to Come – Rolling Stone

TikTokers everywhere are making songs out of friends and relatives’ texts. Is AI music the next Snapchat filter?  30-year-old Illinois travel agent Justice Washam is an on-again, off-again TikTok creator who has been posting about travel and parenting for almost a decade. But despite her 250,000 followers, as of early April, the mother of three hadn’t made much money off the platform, and her goal of hitting a million followers by the end of 2026 seemed far-fetched. Then her best friend sent her a TikTok featuring screenshots of funny texts that had been turned into the lyrics to an AI-generated song: “She was like, ‘Your daughter’s messages are what this trend is made for!’”  Washam assembled some texts in which her persistent 11-year-old asked for Starbucks (“strawberry acai with no inclusions and light ice made with lemonade”), permission to get a social media account (“all i want for Christmas is Snapchat”), and other 21st-century tween stuff (“mom/I don’t know what to do with my hair/mom/why aren’t you responding?”). She downloaded Suno’s AI-music-generating app, pasted in her daughter’s words, and requested a song in an early-2000s Avril Lavigne vein. “When I was her age, that kind of punk-pop music was popular,”
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