Isabella Gomez-Sarmiento

It also calls out, quote, King Trump, as well as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller.

Springsteen has been writing politically driven songs for decades, and he has been an outspoken critic of President Trump since he was first elected to office in 2016.

Isabella Gomez-Sarmiento, NPR News.

Bandcamp says it will not allow any music or audio created entirely by AI or with substantial AI usage on its website.

Bandcamp is known for allowing fans to purchase music and merch directly from independent artists.

In announcing the new policy, the platform states that this is an essential step to quote, putting human creativity first.

In contrast, Spotify, the biggest streaming service in the world, has faced criticisms in recent months for not clearly labeling or flagging music created with generative AI.

Two major labels, Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group,

have also signed licensing deals with AI music generators.

Isabella Gomez-Sarmiento, NPR News.

Bandcamp says it will not allow any music or audio created entirely by AI or with substantial AI usage on its website.

Bandcamp is known for allowing fans to purchase music and merch directly from independent artists.

In announcing the new policy, the platform states that this is an essential step to quote, putting human creativity first.

In contrast, Spotify, the biggest streaming service in the world, has faced criticisms in recent months for not clearly labeling or flagging music created with generative AI.

Two major labels, Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group, have also signed licensing deals with AI music generators.

Isabella Gomez-Sarmiento, NPR News.

This past year in particular, there's been an uptick where I feel like every time there's a really big thing happening in the news, ICE raids, the assassination of Charlie Kirk, these have all been moments where I've seen a lot of people use songs and in particular these very like folk

plain spoken guitar driven songs on social media as a way to kind of respond to these moments.

It's like a throwback to what we think of as like Vietnam War singer-songwriter era protest music.

So why is this new version of protest music going viral?