SHINEDOWN’s ZACH MYERS Blasts Use Of A.I. To Compose Songs: ‘I’m Not Writing With Artificial Intelligence’
Publish Date: 2026-06-08 17:19:00
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In a new interview with Primordial Radio, SHINEDOWN guitarist Zach Myers weighed in on a debate about people using an A.I. (artificial intelligence) music generator as a tool to create melodies, harmonies and rhymes based on A.I. algorithms and machine learning (ML) models. Zach said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “That’s awful. Here’s the thing, man. All these Nashville guys who are writing with that — I don’t even know the name of the app… [But it’s] awful. Awful. You can hear it, dude. It’s so bad. How about you actually live a little life, go through some shit, and then write a song about it?
“Here’s the thing: you can write with other people,” Zach clarified. “[But] I’m not writing with artificial intelligence.
“Listen, I ask ChatGPT a million questions a day. It’s not ‘how to write a song’ or ‘write a song with me’.
“I get it,” Myers added. “Again, everything starts with a good purpose, right? Everything. The Internet started with a good purpose. Now it’s just us talking shit about each other, and usually most people are doing it from their parents’ basement Wi-Fi. And then it’s, like, ‘Oh, now it’s gonna write songs for you.’
“Listen, I think you can fool… I’ve always said this about a lot of things. I always equate it to my relationship with my bandmembers, which is really great. But you can fool some of the people some of the time; you cannot fool all the people all the time,” Zach said. “And I think when you start doing that, you’re getting into a dangerous game, man.
“Listen, if you can sleep at night and you got a Number One song because you wrote it with your iPhone and some computer told you how to sing it, that’s your burden to carry, man, not mine.
“Listen, this is the most cocky thing I’ll ever say in my life — we got 24 Number Ones without using a computer.”
Zach concluded: “Don’t use A.I. to do your work for you.”
Last month SHINEDOWN singer Brent Smith confirmed to Allison Hagendorf that “no A.I. [artificial intelligence] was used in…
