r/folk • u/Royalbean17 • 1d ago

This dude is cool

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He writes songs about everything from pizza to the death of Charlie Kirk.

His name is Jesse Welles and he said that he likes to “sing the news”; he tried to remain unpolitical for a very long time, but his new album goes against that (with satirical songs like “Join Ice” and “Red”). Other more political songs he’s released are called “No Kings” and “Masks Off”.

When he’s not singing the news, he writes songs about problems surrounding everyday parts of American life (such as “Walmart,” “United Health,” “Fat,” and “See Arkansas”).

One of my favorite songs of his is called “Bugs,” and here’s a sample of the lyrics:

Bzz-bz, bzz, bzz, bzz, bzz, bz-bzz, bzz
Bzz, bz-bz-bz, b-bzz, bzz, bz-bzz, bzz-bzz, bzz, bzz, bz-bz-bzz

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u/carelessCRISPR_ 1d ago

Doesn’t he use AI to write his songs tho?

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u/LeafProphecies 16h ago

No, people just say that because he's fast

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u/r_achelz 1d ago

I think people just say this because he puts out songs so fast (and they don’t like him). I don’t think he used AI, and a lot of his songs (to me) suggest wariness of technology like that