3 Songs, 1 Uncomfortable Truth: The Case for ✨Unpromptable Humanness✨ 🎧🧵
I had been listening to music all day when it hit me.
We’re all being flattened.
The algorithms are watching.
The models are catching up.
But there’s a way out.
Here are 3 songs that changed how I think about authenticity 🧵
1. What Angine de Poitrine Taught Me About ✨Earning Your Weirdness✨
The first time I heard it, my brain didn’t know where to put it.
Microtonal math rock. Indian ragas. Turkish psychedelia. Gamelan. A custom double-necked guitar-bass hybrid, built by hand, played by a duo in costume.
Not quite any of it. Not quite whatever the algorithm was about to serve me next.
It lived in the gaps. Between notes. Between genres. Between what the models have been trained to recognize.
👉 In a world of infinite competent output, being “pretty good” is a death sentence.
The weirdness has to be earned.
💡 Key takeaway: If a model could have made it, a model probably already did.
2. What Johnny Blue Skies Taught Me About ✨Refusing the Lane✨
Sturgill Simpson had every reason to stay Sturgill Simpson.
Grammys. Festival slots. A lane carved out.
Instead, he invented an alter ego, called the record Mutiny After Midnight, and made something that doesn’t fit country, doesn’t fit psych, doesn’t fit anywhere.
👉 The lane is a cage with better branding.
The refusal didn’t stop there. No single. No interview. No concert. Just Instagram memes, Jaws edits, and a video set to a He-Man loop collaging Tyler Childers, Napoleon Dynamite, and public access TV.
Then he leaked his own record on purpose. Vinyl, CD, cassette only. Debuted #3 on the Billboard 200.
👉 The marketing was the music was the point.
💡 Key takeaway: Your alter ego is closer to your real self than your job title.
3. What Fleetwood Mac Taught Me About ✨The Only Move That Actually Works✨
“Go your own way.”
That’s it.
That’s the whole instruction.
Not between genres. Not an alter ego. Not a secret third thing. Just the literal line, on a song everyone has heard, by a band everyone knows.
👉 It’s one of the most famous songs on the planet because it’s the real thing.
Lindsey wrote it about Stevie. Stevie had to sing harmony on it. Every night. For decades.
You cannot fake that with a prompt.
You cannot fake that with a model that has read every song ever written, because it has never been the person leaving.
💡 Key takeaway: Sometimes the unpromptable move is the most obvious move that nobody is actually making.
So Here’s My Challenge to You 👇
The machines are getting better at competent.
Your only edge is un-fakeable.
Earn your weirdness. Refuse the lane. Go your own way.
Drop your favorite unpromptable song in the comments below 🎶
If this resonated, hit that repost button. Let’s normalize being weird.
Thoughts? 💭
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h/t david kaye, the case for being unpromptable. where i first saw this framing. on linkedin, link goes in the first comment (algo demotes external links). you know the drill.