He’s gearing up to release his first new song in five years, and surely it’s going to come with those signature Sir Paul hooks and melodies.<\/p>\n
READ: ROCK LEGEND DAVID COVERDALE ANNOUNCES HE\u2019S HANGING UP \u2018PLATFORM SHOES AND SKIN\u2011TIGHT JEANS\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Nope. Just two minutes and forty-five seconds of the sounds of an empty recording studio.<\/p>\n That seems like something Lennon would’ve done because Yoko told him it was a cool idea\u2026<\/p>\n \u00a0According to The Guardian<\/a>, the 83-year-old is releasing the song as part of an LP called Is This What We Want?<\/a>, which is intended to protest the rise of AI-generated music<\/a>.<\/p>\n Get it? Do you get why it’s a recording of an empty studio?<\/p>\n Paul McCartney is releasing his first song in years, and it’s a whole lot of nothing. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n Other artists on the album include singer-songwriter Sam Fender, Kate Bush, and composer Hans Zimmer. All of their tracks are silent, too, and the entire record is being released on vinyl.<\/p>\n Now, I like the sentiment behind this project, but if you drop any money on a vinyl record that has nothing but the hum of an air conditioner and the occasional cough of an audio engineer, you’re an idiot.<\/p>\n “[We\u2019ve] got to be careful about it because it could just take over and we don\u2019t want that to happen, particularly for the young composers and writers [for] who, it may be the only way [they\u2019re] gonna make a career,” McCartney was quoted as saying about AI. “If AI wipes that out, that would be a very sad thing indeed.”<\/p>\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mccartney.jpg\")
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