Meet Arden Rae. She didn’t come from a label’s talent scout or years of band rehearsals. She was born at the intersection of curiosity, imagination, and artificial intelligence.

Her debut single Phoenix tells that origin story, a voice and presence rising from prompts, pixels, and code into something that feels undeniably real. Have we entered a new space of disposable, casual art, if it’s even fair to call it art?

What happens when your new favorite song wasn’t written by anyone in the traditional sense? What does that mean for creativity, for our sense of reality? I don’t yet know. But what’s certain is that this is the worst it will ever be. It’s not AI slop. It’s the state of the art for AI music production in October 2025.