There’s this alarming trend in the Suno subreddit. People aren’t just prompting AI songs; they’re sitting around listening almost exclusively to their own slop. And in some cases, they proudly proclaim that they don’t listen to music on traditional streaming platforms anymore — it’s just AI all day.

“Does anyone just listen to their own music now and not even music on Spotify anymore.?”

“I definitely listen to my own music most of the time now. Why wouldn’t I? It’s album after album of bangers”

“Definitely dude I’ve produced hundreds of songs and yeah I hardly ever use Spotify bc I favor my own stuff more”

I wanted to understand why users were consuming their own AI content over real artists’ music. So I reached out to well over a dozen people who have posted in r/SunoAI about primarily listening to their own slop, but nobody was willing to talk to me. Nobody seemed to want to go on record and explain why they preferred the hollow, polished-to-death output of Suno to the work of musicians or songwriters who had spent a lifetime honing their craft.

That left me scouring Reddit posts for explanations, and the best I got was this: