Wack Wednesday: The Song That Hid It vs. the Singer That Was Never There

What Wack Wednesday Is

Every Wednesday, Song Reviews covers what’s strange: novelty tracks, bizarre production, genre combinations that shouldn’t work, internet phenomena, and the growing pile of edge cases pop music keeps generating faster than anyone can classify them. It’s not automatically a bad-music day — that’s Terrible Tuesday’s job. Wack Wednesday is for the songs and stories that are just weird, whether or not they’re any good.

What We’re Talking About Today

For the first Wack Wednesday, we picked a pairing instead of a single song, because the story only works as a contrast: two AI-generated tracks that both charted this year, and took opposite approaches to telling anyone.

“Rubberz” by Fenix Flexin (5.4/10) is the first fully AI-generated song confirmed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, built in part through the AI platform Treblo. Flexin let it climb as a normal single. When producer Medasin published a stem-by-stem breakdown alleging it was AI from top to bottom, Flexin denied it, posted a Pro Tools screenshot as counter-evidence, watched the screenshot get picked apart, deleted it, and finally admitted the truth weeks later.

“Celebrate Me” by IngaRose (6.3/10) took the opposite route. IngaRose isn’t a person who used a tool — she’s the tool’s output, a Suno-built R&B persona with no performer behind the voice, disclosed as such from the start. The single still hit No. 1 on iTunes in five countries and racked up hundreds of thousands of TikTok videos before it converted to paid downloads at all. Nobody had to be fooled for it to work.

What’s Wack

• The stems gave it away. AI-generated vocal and instrumental layers separate more cleanly than a human recording session ever does — that clean separation is what let Medasin’s breakdown identify “Rubberz” as AI-built in the first place.
• The alibi didn’t hold. Flexin’s Pro Tools screenshot, offered as proof of a human session, was undercut by the same kind of stem analysis that flagged the song to begin with — the “proof” and the accusation were made of the same evidence.
• A No. 1 single with no biography. IngaRose’s profile describes her lyrics as “human written” and drawn from “real stories,” a claim that has nowhere to attach on an act that, by construction, has no life to have had a story in.
• Same tools, opposite outcomes. Both songs used AI generation tied to specific platforms (Treblo, Suno) and both charted — but only one artist’s score took a hit, and it wasn’t for using the technology. It was for lying about it.

Read the full reviews for the case on each song individually: Rubberz and Celebrate Me.