{"id":466112,"date":"2026-03-09T15:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/466112\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T15:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:24:07","slug":"boy-george-admits-using-ai-to-write-songs-says-it-has-really-helped-me-as-a-lyricist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/466112\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy George admits using AI to write songs, says it has “really helped me as a lyricist\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boy George<\/a> has said that using AI<\/a> to pen new music has changed his approach to songwriting.<\/p>\n

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During a recent appearance on Fearne Cotton\u2019s Happy Place podcast, he said that the \u201cpractice has really helped me as a lyricist\u201d, noting that much of the enjoyment he draws from using it comes from the independence of the process.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re not working with anyone else,\u201d he explained. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to worry even for two seconds about what they think. 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

\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

Last year, the musician used AI to re-record vocals for some of his biggest tracks, including 1983 hit \u2018Karma Chameleon\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

It follows a consistent period of controversy surrounding the increased use of AI in creative fields, with many people now unable to detect it\u2019s presence. For instance, Apple Music<\/a>\u00a0will now\u00a0let users know if they are listening to music that was made using the technology<\/a>, following\u00a0a study last year that revealed that 97 per cent of people \u201ccan\u2019t tell the difference\u201d between real and AI music<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before then, figures in 2024 warned that\u00a0people working in music were likely to lose a quarter of their income to AI over the following four years<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As well as Apple, Deezer has also tackled the rise of AI-generated content \u2013 which it said in September\u00a0made up 28 per cent of content on the platform<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 sharing that it had demonetised 85 per cent of all AI-generated tracks on its site using an AI-detection tool.<\/p>\n

Bandcamp has banned all AI-created tracks<\/a>\u00a0too, saying: \u201cWe reserve the right to remove any music on suspicion of being AI-generated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year,\u00a0Spotify confirmed that it was cracking down on AI as well, and removing 75million \u201cspammy tracks\u201d and targeting impersonators.<\/a>\u00a0That\u00a0statement followed a report which claimed that\u00a0AI-generated songs were being uploaded to dead musicians\u2019 Spotify profiles without permission<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Paul McCartney<\/a>,\u00a0Kate Bush<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Elton John<\/a>\u00a0are among the major British artists to have\u00a0urged Keir Starmer to protect the work of creatives<\/a>, and\u00a0the Prime Minister told\u00a0NME<\/a>\u00a0in 2025 that the government were working to \u201cget the balance right.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, SZA said she feels \u201cat war\u201d with the technology as a Black artist<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s happening disproportionately with Black music,\u201d she said. \u201cWhy am I hearing AI covers of\u00a0Olivia Dean<\/a>, when Olivia Dean just came the fuck out? She can\u2019t even collect the streams. I\u2019m also really offended by the type of Black music that\u2019s coming out of AI. Weird, stereotypical struggle music.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boy George has said that using AI to pen new music has changed his approach to songwriting. READ…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-466112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}