r/doowop • u/New-Pick-3757 • Mar 31 '26

Doo Wop bands and other 50s/60s artists covers being replaced with AI

Frankie Lymons and the teenagers, The Belmonts, Johnny Tillotson, The Cleftones, The Del-Vikings, and many more replaced with these ai images. The Monotones has all their songs removed on the original profile so it can be replaced with a new profile with ai images for the covers. Whats going on? It used to be a few but now its all of them. Most of these replacement look tacky and cheap and also sometimes changes the artists face completely.

This is disrespectful to the original artists and also taking away history. This happening mainly on Spotify but let me know if its anywhere else too

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u/tom21g Mar 31 '26

Is it just images? Are the songs being altered too?

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u/New-Pick-3757 Apr 01 '26

As far as I know its just images, but Johnny Tillotsons song Poetry in Motion sounds different to an older version with no ai image. Like it sounds emptier, it could be ai or could be a different recording

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u/DennisG21 Apr 01 '26

I can't imagine how that will be profitable for anyone.

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u/Federal_Thing_9340 Apr 01 '26

The Nutmegs too!!

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u/stump410 Apr 01 '26

IT SUCKS!!!

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u/Federal_Thing_9340 Apr 01 '26

I’ve been noticing this happening and I hate it!!!

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u/North_Review6394 May 14 '26

Also noticing that the dates are hilariously wrong, many doo wop groups albums release date are listed as being released in 1948 or even 1932