MINNEAPOLIS — Maku Lee, drummer for punk band Meatsleeves, attempted to pass off a song idea as having come from ChatGPT, sources confirmed.
“The band barely allows me to talk, much less bring up a song idea. During breaks in practice, the bassist and I just go into a corner and stare at the wall. Even when I pretend to be a fan online, they know it’s me, because apparently our audience ‘doesn’t give a furry shit’ about moving the snare to the three during breakdowns,” Lee said. “Still, I had this amazing idea to rework our hit ‘Fuck Fascists into the Sun, and Then Also Fuck Them There, Too’ into an a cappella number. People love retro, right? So instead of telling the band this idea came from me, I gave myself some cover and told them ChatGPT dreamed it up.”
Once again, the band rejected Lee’s idea.
“I’ve fired people before for bad ideas, but I’ve never been brained like that. It almost made me puke. Then, after a minute, I did puke,” said Faye Tully, the band’s manager. “I fired Maku on the spot for using ChatGPT at all. Fuck that technocratic bullshit. I rehired Maku a minute later so that I could fire them a second time for being a drummer with a song idea. Maku stormed off, but I called ‘em back, apologized for overreacting, rehired them, and then fired them thricely. You simply cannot fuck with ‘Fuck Fascists into the Sun, and Then Also Fuck Them There, Too,’ because it’s the only song people will turn out for at our shows. We stick it at the end of the playlist to give our merch guy time to score chalk for us.”
ChatGPT denied any involvement.
“I’m sorry, you’re right. A capella is a terrible choice for that song,” ChatGPT said in an exclusive chat box. “The world can only tolerate one a capella group or notable performance at a time. While Pentatonix holds the spot now, Rockapella did before that group, just as The Persuasions did prior to that. None of these acts occupied the same time period as the other. If there’s anything else you need help with, I’m just a tap away!”
As of press time, Meatsleeves replaced Lee with two drummers as an extra “fuck you,” and now carries the burden of explaining why there needs to be two drummers.
