On reading the title, the first thing that came to mind was the sequencers, they’ve gotten so advanced… And DAWs too.
And I reckon AI will bring sequencers/DAWs to obsolences in the not-so-distant future.
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I’m not about to watch a Rick beato video
But I got the digitakt specifically because I wouldn’t need to deal with a band to get songs written, and could play at any time without needing to work around someone else’s schedule. Sequencers are awesome.
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This 
I know we are not ment to +1 , but I really couldn’t of said it better myself.
…Although
A second thought is the music industry originally supported all the bands ,so now they may play a part in not supporting the band scene.
From what I see here in Liverpool there is two live scenes dominating town.
Live singers, doing covers or open mike;
And a reasonable jazz scene, which again is light entertainment for drinkers 
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Not to completely dismiss the topic because of my thoughts about ricky bravado over there
The Digitakt can’t jam like a jazz musician. It can’t surprise me the way other musicians do either. Very different than playing with a band, although with some clever sequencing and conditions interesting things can happen it can never take what I’m playing into consideration.
There’s also a lot to be said about the bonding and community that happens when you play music with other people. I like my cold metal machine but it doesn’t tell many jokes or smoke weed with me. From the audience’s perspective seeing a band with great chemistry can really elevate the performance too.
Haven’t watched the video, but is fewer bands and more individuals making music portrayed as a negative?
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Seems to me it’s the byproduct of increasing individualisation.
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That’s music to my ears
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are they?
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Well, maintaining a band is way more difficult than going on a solo career.
Human relationships are not easy.
Also, talking about where I live and the industry, many artist get “famous” and their label or themselves form a sort of band with random people.
But before there is the main singer who is the main artist and just needs backup during live shows instead of just playing instrumentals.
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No
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thought not.
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Just reminds me how much I miss playing in bands. One of these days… 
From what I can tell, there are more bands in my local (rural) area now than there ever were when I was a teenager. Seems like a lot of them are having a great time and plenty of success, relatively speaking. I didn’t actually watch the video, the last time I watched one of his videos I felt like it wasted my time on a false premise - the title of this one sure doesn’t make me think it’ll be any different 
For as long as people make music, they will want to make music together, so I really don’t think we have to worry about bands going away.
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Bermuda triangle
the obvious answer
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Hopefully AI will just render influencers obsolete 
Looks like it is starting to happen with instagram “models” already.
People interested in creating might use AI in some respect, but anyone into creation for the joy of creativity would soon get bored of using it exclusively, IMHO.
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Or inMusic
where bands go to die.
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Had many bands in the past. But these are just not the times.
You need to be loud. You need to rent an extra room. You need lots of heavy Equipment. You need lots of time.
All that is costly and more gor the younger peeps. If you really want to do something then once a week rehearsal is not enough. Renting rooms is expensive. And and and
And today everybody believes that he is the most important one of all. So doing something together is harder than playing mister producer.
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A global housing crisis means young people (and let’s be realistic, the youth are where it matters most for music) don’t have basements, garages, or even living rooms to set up gear in, practice spaces cost money and need 4-5 people to be available at a fixed time.
When I was young and in bands, flats were cheap and musicians all lived with or near each other in dodgy parts of town. Now young people largely live at home, house parties are dead and gone (that’s honestly a topic in itself) and there just isn’t the possibility for getting bands started, let alone progressing as a group.
It’s grim, and the advent of AI happening at the same time is extremely unfortunate.
There’s real magic in the meeting of minds expressed through music and losing that is honestly tragic. Working by yourself is fine but I don’t believe most musicians are cut out to be solo artists.
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Good to keep this context in mind!
I surely won’t watch the video of culture pessimism pope Beato. But I have to admit, too many artists’ “live” shows these days are just showing up alone with a laptop, pressing play and singing. That’s pretty boring.
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After growing up in a band I found a lot of excitement in discovering electronic music and sequencers and being able to do all on my own.
Years later, I feel drawn back to playing in a room with other musicians. There is some magic found in playing together with a bunch of people that I don’t get when fiddling with machines. Still also great fun though, just different.
Anyway, I don’t really know if bands are disappearing. They not part of the mainstream anymore. I’m pretty sure that will change some day, everything comes back at some point.
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I’m currently doing both and it’s really different and great. If I had to choose though, I’d prefer the band. Sharing creative responsibilities and inspiring each other is much more fun. Although I feel like when I’m playing with my machines, I also interact with them and let them throw inspirations at me that I react to.
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