Every catchy AI song is, in some sense, built out of the bones of songs that came before it. This is because an AI music model has been trained on an almost unimaginable quantity of existing music until it has absorbed enough of the pattern to produce something new that still sounds hauntingly familiar. In that sense, AI music isn’t a rupture from Indian popular music’s history so much as its logical next step. Seen this way, AI-generated music isn’t the rupture it appears to be. AI simply makes it literal, automated, and impossible to ignore, stripping away the last illusion that a human was ever fully in charge of what got called popular taste.