‘Daddy don’t like when I diddle my daisy… Mama says finger fishing ain’t for ladies’: have you heard these lyrics yet?
They’re from a viral song streamed 2.5 million times on Spotify alone, created by an AI prompted to come up with a country song.
And those were some of the most anodyne lyrics to Country Girls Make Do, which also suggests NSFW things to do with a corn cob.
Maybe you wish you were born in the era of Woodstock or Elvis, but this is what you have: sorry. Maybe download Suno and make a sad AI song about it.
People on TikTok filmed themselves playing the song to older relatives, claiming it was the latest chart hit and recording their reactions. They were joking, but AI music really is gaining ground in the charts.
Two ‘singers’ that are really just lines of code have had chart hits recently, with Breaking Rust topping US Billboard country digital sales this month, and Xania Monet topping RnB sales in September.
Given the low numbers of people actually buying songs rather than streaming these days, this could be an attempt to game the system and be ‘the first’ artists in a genre to top the charts, but even so, it’s a milestone.
Neither artist’s Spotify profile gives an indication that they are not real people, and the rise of AI music is making real singers worried about the future of their industry.
Sir Paul McCartney has now made a largely silent track, protesting proposed changes to UK copyright law, which would allow artificial intelligence companies to train their models on other people’s copyrighted work, including music, art, and literature, without a licence.
He contributed a bonus track to an album called ‘Is This What We Want?’, which was released digitally in February, and has now been released on vinyl.
Artists including Sam Fender, Kate Bush, The Clash, Hans Zimmer and the Pet Shop Boys contributed to the album made up of the sound of empty recording studios and performance spaces, with the odd sound of a closing door or footsteps etc, but not much else.
After consulting on the idea earlier this year, the government is yet to publish its response.
Meanwhile, AI music gets more and more traction, but most streaming platforms do not flag entirely AI-generated content.
So if they aren’t going to tell us, can we tell from listening?
Listen to the tracks below, and see if you can detect which are made by AI. It’s at least one, and could be both. Scroll to see the answers below…
French streaming platform Deezer is the only mainstream music platform to proactively tag AI-generated music.
They worked with Ipsos to ask 9,000 people in eight different countries if they could identify a track made by AI, versus one made by humans.
Results were overwhelmingly in one direction: 97% of people couldn’t tell the difference.
But they wanted to know, with 73% saying streaming platforms should be upfront if they are recommending AI music, and 70% saying that fully AI-generated music is a threat to the livelihoods of musicians.
Over half (52%) of people said fully AI songs should not even be included in the mainstream charts.
It’s now shockingly easy to generate slick music in whatever genre you want, with apps like Suno and Udio.
Where AI image and video generators like Soro and Nano Banana have gone viral, music hasn’t had as much same attention, which is perhaps why streaming platforms can get away without the same signposting that we demand on visual apps like Instagram.
So which tracks were AI-generated?
Ashes on the Carousel by the Velvet Sundown is entirely AI-generated and was used in the survey.
The ‘band’ previously caused controversy by racking up millions of plays on Spotify, with their profile claiming it was made up of real musicians.
But the other track, Pretty Woman by Juicy Lucy, is all human-made.
Did you get it right?
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I already knew the bands so not a fair assessment
Deezer said they continue to be flooded with AI tracks, which now number 50,000 a day, 34% of their total intake.
Many will be submitted to other platforms too, often in a bid to make some easy money from royalties if they are listened to enough.
Spotify has announced steps towards being more transparent, but still does not tag AI-generated music, previously saying it’s challenging to have a binary tagging system due to some legitimate artists using AI as part of their creative process.
But this leads to a situation where people could be listening to an entirely fictitious pop superstar with no idea, such as Xania Monet whose artist profile is blank and gives no indication of the truth.
Oh, and if you thought identifying AI-generated songs was hard, try our quiz on working out which are AI-generated faces. If you get over 50%, you’re doing better than us.
This is an updated version of an article first published on November 13, 2025.
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