A NEW "OLD TIME" FAVORITE FEMINIST BLUES SINGER - INTRODUCING BERTHA MAE
- rhapsodydmb
- Oct 23, 2025
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 23, 2025
For real, I heard this song today and fell in love with a 40s style jazz singer whom I thought I had heard before! At least I recognized her name I was sure: Bertha Mae Lightening. Take a listen.....
But it wasn't real!
Some trickster group called "Dumpster Grooves" applied their clever musical talents to writing lyrics and creating "Bertha Mae," coraling AI to produce the final version along with "Bertha Mae's" album cover "picture" above.
Amazing.
But...a commentator tipped me off that something was wrong....check out the six fingers on her right hand...not to mention the too-perfect sound track for a 40s recording. Not to mention the inflection, accent, and other elements of a 40s Black jazz singer that are absent.
I admit I'm conflicted. That's because I see the dangers of present-day AI -- unregulated, driven by profit mongering par excellence, and implemented by hogging energy and threatening the environment and perhaps even human survival. And in this case, AI commiting what seems to be "black face" resurrected from the past.
Art created by AI is anathema to me.
And yet, the humor of it all intrigues me.
Here is what Dumster Grooves says about "Bertha Mae:"
Discovered on a forgotten mono tape marked “Handle Me - May 1950,” this juke-joint scorcher captures the unstoppable blues powerhouse Bertha Mae Lightning - a woman who could outplay, outsing, and outdrink half the Delta.
Backed by a smokin’ Southern electric blues combo with slide guitar, harmonica, and a rhythm section that could burn a hole through the floor, Ain’t No Man Alive Can Handle Me is pure grit, sass, and soul. Lovingly remastered from the original tape - raw, wild, and 100% unfiltered blues attitude.
Note: Caveat Emptor. Human-written. AI-performed. Fictional artist. Real music.
Chapeau to them at the very least, for revealing the AI source.
I'll cut this short and let you be the judge about the quality of the song and the lyrics plus the ethics of fooling some of us.
I admit I'm in love with the uber-feminist and poetic lyrics and rhyming: internal, slant and perfect end-line rhyming.
On that basis alone I will argue that this qualifies for a blog topic on my music and poetry website, right? Someone wrote those lyics and they are great.
If not your cup of tea, please pardon me, suppress a guffaw, and then decide if you want to explore some other AI-created songs and lyrics listed on Dumpster's website --- but a critical warning:
others will blow the top of your head off with their perversity and profanity.
Still and all, listening to one other forever nameless song on their website, I found myself rotflmao....
Remember: I didn't write or compose this; I'm just the messenger here, so you know what not to do. Just check out my other sedate blogs instead, and pray that I'll soon come back to my musical senses.
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I am so confused with this new AI music thing going on. I feel in love with Morgan Luna and also Bertha Mae Lightning and to my sorrow find out they are AI. The music is great but the money monger's behind this AI should be ashamed, oh I forgot for a moment that they only care for $$$signs not real music
I thought it was a modern singer aping an old style. I hate this AI shit.
Esta muy bueno. Blues crudo cantado desde la propia mente sin rienda como viene. Los felicito gracias por el aporte
So who is on the pictures of the supposedly Bertha ? And who's voice did they take for the AI to copy ?
It's sad that music that we love is being reproduced by AI. Where will that leave real, living, breathing musicians in the future? The song you presented has a great groove. I played with many blues players in Austin in the 80's and 90's. They achieved the same groove. That's what attracted me to this tune.