The Song of the Summer Is Not Just Tourist Stuff

Published: June 18, 2026

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By Michaela Gordoni

If you’ve heard “The Puerto Rico Song” and loved it, you’re not the only one. It’s the song of the summer…and it’s made by an AI tool called Suno.

TikTok user Saxboybilly18, AKA Bill Stiteler, a travel content creator, posted the song after he took his first visit to Puerto Rico, and the tune is as catchy as can be.

Suno can’t take all the credit, though. Stiteler came up with the lyrics and sang them into the app, which fine-tuned his voice and did the rest of the work, TODAY reported.

Stiteler thinks of the song as a “sweet piece of candy.”

“It’s just meant to just have fun, you can chew it if you want, you can throw it in the trash if you want,” he said. “I think people are just having fun with it.”

The song has over 5 million views on TikTok, 6.5 million Spotify streams and is in the iTunes top 10 list.

Stiteler is transparent about his music videos. He’s not an actual musician and includes notes that his songs are made with Suno, which currently faces lawsuits from major record labels.

@saxboybilly18

The Puerto Rico Song, a song about Puerto Rico including San Juan and Caguas #puertorico #sanjuan #caguas #puertorico🇵🇷 #sunomusic lyrics: me 🎶: @Suno

♬ original sound – saxboybilly18

Songs like Stiteler’s cannot be copyrighted under current laws.

“The hard question is when a human is guiding the AI, that’s where things get really unclear,” Don Franzen, an entertainment lawyer and UCLA music industry program adjunct professor, explained. “There has to be enough human involvement to qualify as authorship, but what counts as ‘enough’ is still being figured out.”

Public opinion is mixed, but even some artists like the song.

Singer Cody Simpson posted a TikTok of himself singing and dancing to the tune. He wrote in the caption, “I’m sad this is A.I. because I’ll never write a song this good.”

A three-man comedy band, On Company Time, posted a non-AI cover that got over 1.6 million views. “Stole this from AI…hit that sUNO reverse,” the caption read.

Stiteler says he has a goal to hire local artists to make his songs in the future.

Last week, a jazz band covered an AI hit to prove a point that humans still got it. An AI-generated song, “Through My Soul,” got 11 million YouTube views. When Adrian Younge, the composer and co-founder of the Jazz is Dead label, heard the song, he knew something didn’t sound right.

So he sought out to fix it with his Midnight Hour band. It turned out so well, he added the song to his tour line-up, Digital Trends reported.

“If people want to bring AI into their process, hey, I’m all for it,” Younge said. “But if they’re asking an AI, asking a computer to write and perform an entire song, that’s just wack.”

No one knows what the future holds for these AI tunes, but for now, we can still enjoy hits like “The Puerto Rico Song.”

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