• Bakkoda@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Selling his soul just to be relevant again.

    We should idolize celebrities more. Totally working out for us.

    /s

  • FreddiesLantern@leminal.space
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    18 hours ago

    Wait what?!!

    Guess I have been living under a rock because I had no idea he was a pos. I mean genuinely I only know the 2-3 songs that pop up in the 80’s charts.

  • mcv@lemmy.zip
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    12 hours ago

    Is that the same hat Prince wore on George Harrison’s hall of fame induction?

    It’s a disgrace associating that hat with genocide.

  • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Old people really need to stop… most of them probably all have terrible views on lots of things, but if they stay irrelevant ill never know! This just keeps happening more and more lately and it forces me to continue building my list of everyone I lost respect for. Just stay in obscurity and this would never happen!

  • LordMayor@piefed.social
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    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.

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      20 hours ago

      A total of 344 civilians and 34 security personnel were killed and 44 people were taken hostage.

      The overall Palestinian death toll since the war started is more than 73,000

      way to minimise the attacks guardian. classy rag

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Which attacks did they minimize, Jimbo?

        Are you sure you want to go “death count for death count” between Israel and Palestine? You really want to go there?

        For one, we would be here all day. But two, it would become almost immediately obvious that one is larger than the other by several orders of magnitude.

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      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.

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      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.

      • bramkaandorp@lemmy.world
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        20 hours ago

        Depends largely on the training data. If it’s completely trained on music he owns the copyright to, more power to him.

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    21 hours ago

    Among insipid early-80s pop has-beens that I avoid listening to, are there any others who also wrongheadedly choose to pontificate on politics?

    • Sidyctism II.@discuss.tchncs.de
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      18 hours ago

      I feel like the transphobia isnt the most crazy shit in that article

      A biopic of the singer’s life written and directed by Sacha Gervasi is currently in development. George expressed to the Sunday Times that he is concerned how the film will portray his 2009 imprisonment for assaulting and kidnapping a sex worker, for which he was sentenced to 15 months in jail.

    • TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Leave your pronoun’s at the door!

      I suppose it makes sense a person who struggles with basic grammar would have a hard time with pronouns.