{"id":338618,"date":"2026-03-10T10:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/338618\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T10:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:48:18","slug":"youre-not-working-with-anyone-else-you-dont-have-to-worry-even-for-two-seconds-about-what-they-think-boy-george-on-why-he-prefers-writing-songs-with-ai-than-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/338618\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou\u2019re not working with anyone else. You don\u2019t have to worry even for two seconds about what they think\u201d: Boy George on why he prefers writing songs with AI than humans"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the big AI debate, Boy George has, perhaps surprisingly, come down firmly in the pro camp. He\u2019s even said he uses it to write lyrics. <\/p>\n

The 64 year old 80s pop icon was appearing on Fearne Cotton\u2019s Happy Place podcast when conversation came round \u2013 as it seems to wherever you are these days \u2013 to AI. The Culture Club singer said that it \u201chas really helped me as a lyricist\u201d.<\/p>\n

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One of the reasons he says is that you don\u2019t have to bother with pesky human co-writers. \u201cYou\u2019re not working with anyone else,\u201d he explained. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to worry even for two seconds about what they think.<\/p>\n

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“I\u2019m a top-line writer, so I write top-line melodies. All the people I work with send me tracks, and I\u2019ll just sit with them, and I\u2019ll just play it and play it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI have fantastic conversations with ChatGPT,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd I\u2019ll say: \u2018Oh, those lyrics are crap. That\u2019s not what I would say.\u2019 You know what I mean? But, actually, you can train it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the conversation, George actually said he had written \u201clike, five albums already\u201d with AI. Whether we\u2019ll ever get to hear any of them is another matter entirely though.<\/p>\n

Neither did he say whether his most recent album, last year\u2019s SE18, was written with artificial assistance. In all other respects it was an old skool album to the core. Musically it was inspired by the reggae he heard in the streets of Woolwich where he grew up \u2013 hence the postcode title. Unusually for a new release in the 2020s it only came out in the physical formats of vinyl and CD.<\/p>\n

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