Culture Club singer sings ‘I stand with the Jews / I don’t feel brave, I just need to behave like a human’, in song defending Israel’s response to Hamas attack
Last month, Boy George launched a new company called Artist Included, which will use AI to allow artists to create new versions of earlier songs which resemble the originals, as a way of wresting back control of master recordings. It launched with a new version of Karma Chameleon, which Boy George recorded then de-aged. “When I heard it, I was absolutely gobsmacked,” he told the Hollywood Reporter. “It sounds like another take from that original session.”
He’s just going all-in on the shit-takes. Probably, just desperate for people to talk about him again.
Well, I dunno about this one. Ownership of master recordings and royalty agreements are a serious issue in the music industry. Bands and musicians having to make a new recording of their own songs as a way to get royalties (as in any at all) for streaming isn’t unheard of. And it’s something that goes back longer than streaming.
So what he’s saying here (my take on what you quoted) is he’s using AI to modify his own new recording of his own song to more closely resemble the recording that some other entity has control over. Honestly I don’t mind that.
He’s just going all-in on the shit-takes. Probably, just desperate for people to talk about him again.
He should have did what T Swift did. Record a cover version of your album/song and tell your fans to just listen to that version.
You can shit talk her all you want but that was a smart move.
He’s just a man who doesn’t know how to sell a contradiction.
Well, I dunno about this one. Ownership of master recordings and royalty agreements are a serious issue in the music industry. Bands and musicians having to make a new recording of their own songs as a way to get royalties (as in any at all) for streaming isn’t unheard of. And it’s something that goes back longer than streaming.
https://americansongwriter.com/4-earlier-artists-who-pulled-a-taylor-swift-and-re-recorded-their-music/
So what he’s saying here (my take on what you quoted) is he’s using AI to modify his own new recording of his own song to more closely resemble the recording that some other entity has control over. Honestly I don’t mind that.