{"id":21635,"date":"2026-01-20T15:37:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/is-this-man-the-future-of-music-or-its-executioner-ai-evangelist-mikey-shulman-says-hes-making-pop-not-slop\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T15:37:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:37:32","slug":"is-this-man-the-future-of-music-or-its-executioner-ai-evangelist-mikey-shulman-says-hes-making-pop-not-slop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/is-this-man-the-future-of-music-or-its-executioner-ai-evangelist-mikey-shulman-says-hes-making-pop-not-slop\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this man the future of music \u2013 or its executioner? AI evangelist Mikey Shulman says he\u2019s making pop, not slop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worth a staggering $2.45bn, Suno is an AI music company that can create a track with just a few prompts. Why is its CEO happy to see it called \u2018the Ozempic of the music industry\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The format of the future,\u201d says Mikey Shulman, \u201cis music you play <em>with<\/em>, not just play.\u201d As the CEO and co-founder of the generative AI music company Suno, Shulman currently finds himself in the exhilarating if perhaps unenviable position of being simultaneously regarded as the architect of music\u2019s future \u2013 and its executioner.<\/p>\n<p>Suno, which was founded just over two years ago, allows users to create entire songs with just a few text prompts. At the moment, you can\u2019t prompt it with the name of a specific pop star, but asking for \u201cstadium-level confessional pop-country\u201d that \u201creferences past relationships\u201d or \u201cpublic rivalries\u201d might get you a Taylor Swift-style song or thereabouts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/jan\/19\/ai-music-company-mikey-shulman-suna\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fdf44bef142f8ed1cf65e705c25f4a0ebb4b83c0\/554_655_4079_3264\/master\/4079.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ca8f499f5dfe908bcf7254bd68af9744\" title=\"Is this man the future of music \u2013 or its executioner? AI evangelist Mikey Shulman says he\u2019s making pop, not slop\" \/>Worth a staggering $2.45bn, Suno is an AI music company that can create a track with just a few prompts. Why is its CEO happy to see it called \u2018the Ozempic of the music industry\u2019?<br \/>\n\u2018The format of the future,\u201d says Mikey Shulman, \u201cis music you play with, not just play.\u201d As the CEO and co-founder of the generative AI music company Suno, Shulman currently finds himself in the exhilarating if perhaps unenviable position of being simultaneously regarded as the architect of music\u2019s future \u2013 and its executioner.<br \/>\nSuno, which was founded just over two years ago, allows users to create entire songs with just a few text prompts. At the moment, you can\u2019t prompt it with the name of a specific pop star, but asking for \u201cstadium-level confessional pop-country\u201d that \u201creferences past relationships\u201d or \u201cpublic rivalries\u201d might get you a Taylor Swift-style song or thereabouts. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worth a staggering $2.45bn, Suno is an AI music company that can create a track with just a few prompts. Why is its CEO happy to see it called \u2018the Ozempic of the music industry\u2019? \u2018The format of the future,\u201d says Mikey Shulman, \u201cis music you play with, not just play.\u201d As the CEO and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/is-this-man-the-future-of-music-or-its-executioner-ai-evangelist-mikey-shulman-says-hes-making-pop-not-slop\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is this man the future of music \u2013 or its executioner? AI evangelist Mikey Shulman says he\u2019s making pop, not slop<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21635"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}