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Who can remember who rules the roost?
Does anyone care at the idle minds boost.
If you kick up a fuss
You get kicked off the bus
The boss runs the schedule
In a world of rockets, you're just a mule
You're just a nanobot performing your role
When the update arrives you'll be thrown in the hole.
The update is faster, smarter and can perform ten things per second
We can't live without it, we won't live with it
It will create a new and better you
Clad in metal with eyes that shoot lasers...
Oops I think I've gone too far     

Thanks Pedr. It was written from a Welsh/UK perspective and all lines are from my memory and happened. Some of the terms I used translated;
TANNER= six pense.
KNOCK ON KNOCKER= at night time knock on a door and run and hide, funnier at the time I suppose.
BOB A JOB= an old boy scouts thing for collecting money for charity. a bob is a shilling.
SMELTING= there was a factory in Llanelli that received pig iron from other steel works and re-melted, smelted, to form more manageable ingots. This was done in the Llanelli steel works also known as the KK works (Klondike)
DING = a signal on the double decker busses, one for stop, two for go
back in the 1950s cars were few and far between so playing on the roads was fairly safe, not so much house windows     

darstrondos, yep you're right after all normal people (and some very abnormal people) have been writing music for hundreds of years. Of course in days gone by you had to have some talent musically, Elton John or in the case of songs vocal composition eg Bernie Taupin and many others. when I first took up the guitar I couldn't afford lessons but I could afford a book; "play in a day" so I taught myself to play with just a rudimentary musical knowledge from school. When I write a song I record all the instruments live, drums, keyboards, guitar and bass all self taught, I'm no musical genius I just enjoy doing it. what aggravates me about today's music is that, like Wham they had backing musicians who were never mentioned. Some of the artists you mentioned Pedr, don't write or even perform on their records, the voices you hear like a heavenly choir are just one voice multiplied lots of times and harmonized to within an inch of their lives. Even though the AI concerned were operated by humans and all the voices and instruments were sampled from humans it's still not human music, it's a robot. End of rant     

That's really beautiful Pedr. It flows sweetly like the river as you mention in your poem. "Yet shadows loom where egos play" how did you come up with such a simple yet telling line? It tells how this world can be cruel yet beautiful, bitter and sweet. You are so deserving of your title Loremaster, I bow to your brilliance.     

Sailing close to the wind there TIGLJK! Live female singe or AI? Sounds great     

Live music was taking a downward trend from the time, I think the 70s, when venues were getting rid of their house bands, mainly organ and drums, and acts were using paid for backing tracks. Next step from that was producers using drum machines so there was a steady rhythm and no explosions of the drummer saying " I'm here". Then came digital technology and samples, where first casualty was the bassist. Then a vocalist would lay a track and voilà  a flip of a key and a whole chorus of their voice including harmonies came through the speakers. So I suppose as technology advanced the next step had to be to cut out the middle man, sample a shedful of vocal talent and get the computer to compose the music and add the voices.
I suppose AI is a force for good as well as evil but can a computer stand before a live audience recreating it's greatest hits, could we ever see AI_mania ( a play on Beatlemania ) ? Would we want to?     

Thanks for that info and the words. I think they call it an ear worm when you remember a tune or song but only bits and it just won't go away. This song is so clever even as a novelty song and there were lots of those in the 50s and 60s. I thought it was earlier than 1960, I know I was still a kid 10years old in 1960 so still technically a kid, I still am in many ways...Peter Pan? Not quite.     

That's just greed, managers? I used to find that one charity gig led to several paid gigs not that that was why I did them!     

Ta Pedr, we Welsh have a few too, although Cymro (Welsh folk) isn't strictly slang! Up the valleys if you called someone "right beaut?" It would be a complement, her in Llanelli: " you're a right beaut" might get you punched.
Some of your slang I've heard before and a couple I can guess at, but that's the best I can do, I'm guessing "shaky isles" refers to the fact you are quite well acquainted with earth quakes? We're  well used to them too especially when I'm on the "thunder jug" lol. I love a good "Ruby Murry from the chuck away "     

Bill, I find it difficult to believe you could offend anyone. I'm sorry to hear about you latest health problems so please do as the doctors tell you so you can keep us entertained for many years to come.     

Thanks Roger, I thought it would be a derivative of a D chord turns out it was A major7th, sounds nice though especially if you play from a barred D.