Boy George just lately revealed he is utilizing AI to re-record his previous hits. He is additionally utilizing it to create new songs in assist of genocidal regimes.
“We Will Dance Once more,” the reggae tune Boy George posted to his social media accounts Sunday, is ostensibly a response to the tragic Oct. 7 bloodbath, wherein Hamas militants killed lots of of Israelis at Nova music pageant. It shares a title with Israeli filmmaker Yariv Mozer’s documentary in regards to the assault. However the tune just isn’t merely about rebounding from an act of terrorism.
Boy George begins “We Will Dance Once more” by denying that Israel’s army motion towards Palestinians in Gaza is genocidal, regardless of a number of United Nations inquiries characterizing the marketing campaign as genocide. “You say genocide, I say warfare/ Whenever you’re attacked, that is what the military’s for.” He later decries the artists who’ve spoken out towards Israel: “Musicians holding flags, mouthing like sheep/ Propaganda fueled by the web feels so weak.” As of now, the tune is simply posted to his socials and isn’t out there to stream on DSPs.
In a publish on Threads at the moment, Boy George explains that he wrote “We Will Dance Once more” with the assistance of AI:
I want an imperfect democracy. It is what I am used to however my assist is extra for my precise buddies who I maintain shut and know are good and respectable. I am afraid all of us wrestle to dwell peacefully with one another. Till we do, we’re doomed. I settle for that many individuals disagree with my viewpoint however that’s what is nice about democracy. As imperfect as it’s! The tune was created utilizing AI. I name it ‘AI for good’. In truth, I’d wrestle to put in writing this with a human!
As The Guardian factors out, Boy George’s band Tradition Membership launched a single known as “The Warfare Music” in 1984, wherein he got here out towards warfare as a basic idea: “Warfare is silly and persons are silly.” The paper additionally factors out an interview with The Telegraph wherein Boy George frames his assist for Israel as assist for his Jewish buddies: “Through the years it’s been a extremely private factor. It doesn’t imply that I don’t have compassion for Palestinians, it doesn’t imply that I agree with what’s occurring in Israel, however I’m all the time going to defend the people who I like. I’ve loads of Jewish buddies and there would by no means be a scenario the place I’d flip my again on them.”
