Is This What We Want?

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Is This What We Want? is a 2025 album by various artists. It consists of silence, recorded in recording studios, protesting the use of unlicensed copyrighted work to train AI.[1] The track titles form the sentence "The British government must not legalise music theft to benefit AI companies". The musician's charity Help Musicians will be the recipient of profits from the album.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_This_What_We_Want%3F

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Theft	4
Music	2
British	2
Must	2
The	1
Legalise	0
Not	0
Government	0
To	0
Benefit	0
AI	0
Companies	0

― peace, man, Wednesday, 26 February 2025 15:13 (nine months ago)

i for one am happy to hear that Virgin Music group is taking a stand against the exploitation of artists!

― budo jeru, Wednesday, 26 February 2025 15:16 (nine months ago)

lol. I also have not seen anything about a physical media release for this, so who knows about the whole "musician's charity Help Musicians will be the recipient of profits from the album" thing.

"The" is a banger...literally! I'm up to "To" right now and the birdsong makes it a standout track.

― peace, man, Wednesday, 26 February 2025 15:28 (nine months ago)

It'd make an interesting double-bill with Jonty Semper's Kenotaphion. And the contemporaneous Conet Project, because it would be fascinating if tomorrow's pop music was inspired by that album instead of e.g. The Beatles.

I always wondered if Jonty Semper was a pseudonym. It sounds like a stereotypical late-1990s Brit-art name. And that album appears to be the only thing he's known for. And yet he appears to be an actual person.

― Ashley Pomeroy, Thursday, 27 February 2025 21:34 (nine months ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Tuesday, 4 March 2025 00:01 (nine months ago)

Gave it to "British" for the fly.

― peace, man, Tuesday, 4 March 2025 12:16 (nine months ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Wednesday, 5 March 2025 00:01 (eight months ago)

Yeah, in retrospect, "To" was an obvious, poppy cash-grab.

― peace, man, Wednesday, 5 March 2025 11:47 (eight months ago)

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