John Legend says he’s not worried about AI taking his job, but he’s happy to let it try writing a love song for his wife.
On the latest episode of Angie Martinez’s IRL Podcast, the singer was asked if artificial intelligence was capable of writing a John Legend song and decided to try it out. Around the 32-minute mark in the video above, Martinez instructed an AI app to generate a love song chorus in Legend’s style, dedicated to the singer's wife Chrissy Teigen.
The song, titled "Everytime I Say I Do," included lyrics such as: "I’ve said I love you a thousand ways, in burnt toast mornings and getaway days," and "So every time I say I do, I mean, I choose this life again with you."
Responding to the AI effort, legend said: "Okay, I’m not mad at that. I’m not mad at that chorus."
"What AI does is what just happened. It gives you enough of a starter for an idea that you can massage, edit, and humanize," he added.
The "All Of Me"hitmaker, who also said earlier in the episode that he constantly gets tagged in weddings videos online of couples dancing to his music, shared how rewarding songwriting still is for him.
"I just wrote a song the other day, It was for a film and so I had kind of a clear direction where I was going and I wrote it in like two or three hours," Legend explained. "And I was, like, 'I am so lucky that I get to go to work, create something that did not exist before, and be like genuinely proud of it.' … I feel like that's an amazing gift to have, and every day I pinch myself that I get to do this for a living."
The conversation eventually turned to his relationship with Teigen, who he's been married to since September 2013 and shares four children with: Luna Simone, nine, Miles Theodore Stephens, seven, Esti Maxine, two, and one-year-old Wren Alexander Stephens.
Legend spoke candidly about never wanting to get divorced, saying: "As silly as it sounds, we'll watch reality TV and see families going through divorce and we're just, like, 'That cannot be us.'"
"We are staying together. It's like when we watch that shit, we're just like, 'Nah, not us,'" he added.
However, the 13-time Grammy winner admitted he had to grow emotionally in order for the relationship to work. "I had to be more emotionally available," he said. "Some people call me a robot. I’m so emotionally, like, even keel."
He also shared that he’s had to learn not to jump straight into fixing things when Teigen expresses a problem. "Sometimes you just need to let the person vent," Legend noted. "You can’t just be like, 'I’m just fixing everything.' You have to actually, like, commiserate with them."
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