{"id":527490,"date":"2026-03-10T19:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/527490\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T19:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:52:08","slug":"im-not-a-puppet-im-the-star-ai-actress-tilly-norwood-releases-pop-music-video-where-she-sings-about-the-online-backlash-to-her-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/527490\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I’m Not a Puppet, I’m the Star’: AI ‘Actress’ Tilly Norwood Releases Pop Music Video Where She Sings About the Online Backlash to Her Creation"},"content":{"rendered":"

AI “actress” Tilly Norwood<\/a> is back \u2014 and this time she’s released a pop music video, where she sings about the backlash to her initial announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The song is titled \u201cTake the Lead\u201d and its accompanying music video<\/a> is chock full of ridiculous imagery including Norwood swinging from a disco ball, singing on a London rooftop, and even flying through the sky while riding an inflatable flamingo. <\/p>\n

But while the video seems to feature AI generated imagery throughout, production company Particle6 has said the project was made by a team of almost 20 people \u2014 and that rather than taking away work, AI was simply unlocking productivity. We’ll let you make up your own minds there.<\/p>\n

Tilly Norwood’s new video starts off with a message that reads, \u201cThe following production was made by 18 real humans \u2014 from production designers to costume designers to prompters, editors, and an actor. No flamingos were harmed in the process.\u201d <\/p>\n

The song, which was inspired by an essay written by Norwood\u2019s creator Eline van der Velden, was generated using Suno, an AI music generator, and put together by Particle6 (Van der Velden\u2019s production company) and its AI talent arm Xicoia Studio using preexisting AI tools and its own proprietary creative process, according to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. During that process, Van der Velden acted out Norwood\u2019s performance, which was then incorporated into the AI workflow to produce the music video. <\/p>\n

The lyrics show that Van der Velden is still dealing with the online and real-world backlash to Norwood’s announcement and positioning as the world’s first “AI actress” back in 2025. \u201cWhen they talk about me, they don\u2019t see the human spark, the creativity\u2026 I\u2019m just a tool, but I\u2019ve got life,\u201d Norwood can be heard robotically singing. \u201cThey think I\u2019m just a dollar dream but I\u2019ve got more than they believe\u2026 I\u2019m not a puppet, I\u2019m the star.\u201d<\/p>\n

This music push seems to be testing the waters for Norwood\u2019s official acting debut later this year, according to THR. The companies behind Norwood also seem to be pushing for a \u201cTilly-verse,\u201d where Norwood and unreleased upcoming AI characters can \u201clive, interact, and work,\u201d the outlet claims. <\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Marvel and Jurassic World star Chris Pratt hit out at Norwood, but insisted the panic within Hollywood about the potential impact of AI “actors” was “bulls***.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Image credit: Particle6<\/p>\n

Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI “actress” Tilly Norwood is back \u2014 and this time she’s released a pop music video, where she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-527490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}