“How have we as a music industry allowed this to happen? People were all asleep at the wheel”: Country singer/songwriter Breland lambasts record companies over their investment in AI

Breland takes part in the panel Country Music In The UK: Growth And Influence at Shoreditch Town Hall during SXSW London 2025 on June 04, 2025 in London, England.

The debate over the use of AI in music continues to rage. Now Breland, one of country music’s rising stars, has come out against it and said that songs that use AI should be labelled as such.

Breland (his real name’s Daniel Breland, but like Morrissey, he prefers to be known mononymously) was talking on Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now podcast