Every week, four tracks. One question. You score each one individually on a single criterion — no context, no platform names, no prompt information. Just your ears and your honest judgment.

Results are revealed in the Thursday newsletter. Findings fuel future Red Lab Protocol research reports.

This week's panel closes: Monday March 30 at midnight.

This Week's Question:

Rate each track on how authentically country this sounds. Consider melody, instrumentation, vocal style, and overall genre feel. Score each track individually — not relative to the others.

Scale: 1 = Not country at all / 10 = Sounds like a Nashville record

A Note Before You Listen:

Unless otherwise noted, all tracks in this panel are raw, unmastered WAV exports directly from an AI music generation platform. They have not been mixed, mastered, or post-processed in any way.

Please do not score based on production quality, loudness, or polish — those are not what we are testing. If we are ever testing mastered tracks, that will be clearly noted at the top of the panel.

Score each track only on the specific criterion above. Nothing else. Not how much you like it, not how well it's produced, not whether you'd add it to a playlist. Just the one question we asked.

Your honest, focused judgment is what makes this data useful.

The Four Tracks (changes weekly)

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