“You told me I exaggerate / Because I cry in the café / That my doubts are a drama / That I tire you, that I annoyed you / You hid my notebooks / So I would stop writing / You cut off every story / You called me childish…”. The song is titled No Me Vas A Romper and in a few verses it sums up the awakening of a woman who becomes aware that she is being psychologically abused and tells her partner that this is where it ends. “You made me so small, but then I saw myself standing / With the bag on my hip and your fear on the wall (…) You took so many things from me / but I’m not going back / You’re not going to break me!”.
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It is performed by Rebecca Montt, a beautiful Spanish-speaking singer who in just two months has managed to attract crowds on streaming platforms like Apple Music or Spotify, where she has almost half a million monthly listeners. Additionally, on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram she has hundreds of thousands of followers who adore her warm and raw voice, as if she were a Latin reincarnation of Janis Joplin. “I just listened to this song and woww it touched my soul,” writes a fan. “I think I just fell in love with a voice. What energy!” confesses another.
But there is something that doesn’t quite add up. Doubts arise and most seem to know that Rebecca Montt doesn’t actually exist, that she is just an avatar and that both her voice and her face or the instruments accompanying her have been entirely generated by artificial intelligence. But that doesn’t seem to matter to the audience that has connected with her. There is no anger, at most a slight disappointment that doesn’t reach disillusionment: “My God, AI is amazing. I love the song and all the imperfection in the skin,” sums up another admirer. Well, “it’s AI but I’m hooked”.
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Singer Rebecca Montt has thousands of followers; her audience doesn’t mind that she’s not real
Rebecca Montt, whose voice suspiciously bears a strong resemblance to that of her digital world colleague Ruby Black, is the latest to reach the podium of ghost singers and bands whose success does not depend on whether they are real or not, but on whether their songs validate the feelings of those who listen to them. Hers ( I am eternal , I love myself more every day , We are powerful or My body is mine ) have an intimate, confessional tone. They talk about toxic relationships, healing, and female empowerment. The voice sounds so human and the pain is so recognizable that it makes one think the day is not far off when someone will find the man in the machine.
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She is preceded by stars like Xania Monet (an R&B singer created by Mississippi poet Telisha Nikki Jones) or the band The Velvet Sundown, and to stay relevant she will have to face fierce competition: a report by the newspaper Le Monde identified 400 AI artists available on streaming platforms since January 2026, with more than 90 million monthly listeners on Spotify. Then there are the flesh-and-blood ones, currently with the advantage: the enjoyment of music largely depends on it connecting us with our own humanity..
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