Playback singer Shaan has come down strongly on the version of Saiyaara title track being created in the voice of Kishore Kumar with the use of Aritificial Intelligence (AI) He urged everyone not to listen to the version and neither to compare it with the legendary singer’s original voice.
Speaking to ANI, Shaan said, “I find this AI very cruel when they try to produce songs like 'Yeh gaana agar Kishore da gaate, yeh gaana agar Mohammed Rafi gaate (If this song was sung by Kishore Kumar and Mohammed Rafi). What they sang in the 40s, what they sang in the 60s, and what they sang in the 80s were very different. So if they were singing today, it would again be very different,"
He said that it is wrong to reproduce someone’s voice with AI. “It is wrong that you make that song sound like they would sing it like that. Not necessary. You can't AI a person whose singing has been so dynamic. So it's wrong that you take the tone of any four songs and make tons of tracks and covers with that," said the singer.
Shaan added, “The audience is so silly, they're even comparing it with them. I'm just saying they shouldn't do this AI. But the new generation has heard Kishore Kumar's voice in Saiyaara or some other thing. That is not fair, man. They should hear his songs that he has sung in his time, which came out of his throat, came out of his sensibilities. Yes. Do not listen to this.”
The AI-created version of the title track from Saiyaara has been going viral online as it blends an old-school style of music which was apparent in songs from the 70s and 80s and imagines it in the voice of Kishore Kumar. The original song has been composed by Tanishk Bagchi, Faheem Abdullah, Arslan Nizami and sung by Faheem with lyrics by Irshad Kamil.
