{"id":30077,"date":"2025-07-29T13:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/30077\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T13:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:40:08","slug":"ai-elvis-appears-in-new-bad-seeds-tupelo-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/30077\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Elvis Appears in new Bad Seeds &#8216;Tupelo&#8217; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-thequietus-snippet excerpt\">Chopper director Andrew Dominik releases new film<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Nick-Cave.-cr.-Ian-Allen-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Today marks the fortieth anniversary of Nick Cave &amp; The Bad Seeds \u2018Tupelo\u2019, the opening track from second album The Firstborn Is Dead, and the band have marked it with a new video by Andrew Dominik, director of Chopper, The Assassination of Jesse James and One More Time With Feeling. The film interprets Nick Cave song about Elvis being born in the town of Tupelo as a Christ figure to save humanity from its sins, animating archival images of Elvis and natural disasters using AI. Nick Cave announced the video on his Red Hand Files newsletter, responding to the question \u201cIs changing your mind about things a sign of weakness?\u201d Sometimes, it feels that way.\u201d Cave explained that he had always been an AI sceptic, but that \u201cAs I watched Andrew\u2019s surreal little film, I felt my view of AI as an artistic device soften. To some extent, my mind was changed.\u201d You can watch the new \u2018Tupelo\u2019 film below:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chopper director Andrew Dominik releases new film Today marks the fortieth anniversary of Nick Cave &amp; The Bad&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-30077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}