Fish Hunt Write Song
Chase McGill and Matt Dragstrem, two hit Nashville writers, defend their flesh-and-blood creation "Fish Hunt Golf Drink": "It’s not rocket science, but it’s true to who Luke is"
When Nashville songwriters Chase McGill and Matt Dragstrem are asked exactly how they wrote Luke Bryan’s new song, the countrified “gym, tan, laundry” anthem “Fish Hunt Golf Drink,” they can’t help but break the ice with a joke.
“Drag just opened ChatGPT and…,” McGill says, before he and his songwriting partner erupt into laughter.
They’re laughing for a reason: When Bryan dropped “Fish Hunt Golf Drink” two weeks ago, listeners wondered if such a caricatured country song was written not by flesh-and-blood humans, but by AI. (Spoiler: It was not AI.) The song, and its accompanying video featuring Bryan dancing on a dock, was ripped online, and launched a string of comments denouncing the track — about, yep, fishing and hunting, golfing and drinking — as the product of a large language model.
