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Why AI will never write a great song

19 December 2020

9:00 AM

19 December 2020

9:00 AM

Two years ago, the songwriter Nick Cave told his fans that he’d speak to them directly — not through an interviewer. ‘This will be between you and me,’ he wrote. The letters he has received and the answers he has given are collected online in The Red Hand Files. Here is a selection of the best.

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