{"id":721017,"date":"2026-07-31T14:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/721017\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T14:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:04:10","slug":"are-we-deadass-fans-react-to-official-ai-generated-stellar-blade-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/721017\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Are we deadass?\u2019 fans react to official AI-generated Stellar Blade music video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stellar Blade: Blood Rain doesn\u2019t have a confirmed release date, but an AI-generated music video released on the developer\u2019s YouTube channel has fans feeling apprehensive.<\/p>\n<p>The song \u201cWanna be in Love\u201d was released on July 31, 2026, and features the protagonist of the upcoming game as a K-Pop star singing and dancing around an environment that bears a resemblance to the setting of Blood Rain.<\/p>\n<p>The YouTube AI disclaimer for the music video states that\u00a0 \u201csounds or visuals were altered or fully generated.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The disclaimer likely isn\u2019t required for most fans, however, as the visual \u201cstyle\u201d is unmistakably AI-generated.<\/p>\n<p>The music video predominantly features Evie singing and dancing against the backdrop of Blood Rain\u2019s setting, with some AI-generated \u201cbehind-the-scenes\u201d shots later in the video featuring a fake production crew wearing <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Companies &gt; Shift Up [48 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/companies\/shift-up\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shift Up<\/a> t-shirts.<\/p>\n<p>In one section of the video, protagonist Evie holds up a keychain which reads \u201cK-Pop Demon Hunters,\u201d featuring a picture of Derpy the Tiger, also from the same series. K-Pop Demon Hunters is not associated with <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Games &gt; Stellar Blade [75 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/games\/stellar-blade\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stellar Blade<\/a> or Shift Up, so it\u2019s unclear why this is featured so prominently.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/files\/2026\/07\/Wanna-be-in-LOVE_-Feat.-Evie-_-Stellar-Blade_-BLOODRAIN-1-54-screenshot.jpg\" data-featherlight=\"image\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"Stellar Blade Blood Rain Evie AI music video\" class=\"lazyload\" bad-src=\"\/files\/2026\/07\/Wanna-be-in-LOVE_-Feat.-Evie-_-Stellar-Blade_-BLOODRAIN-1-54-screenshot-80x45.jpg\"  data-\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fans didn\u2019t hesitate to share their disbelief. \u201cAre we deadass?\u201d is a comment that could be found multiple times underneath the video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey really thought they were cooking with this AI slop,\u201d said another commenter.<\/p>\n<p>Fans from Japan and Korea were also sharing their thoughts, with one saying (via machine translation) \u201cSo now you\u2019re stirring up trouble on the official YouTube channel instead of Twitter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One fan refused to let the music video colour their impressions of the game, saying: \u201cDeleting this from my memory, <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Events &gt; Summer Game Fest [334 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/events\/summer-game-fest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Summer Game Fest<\/a> trailer was amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/files\/2026\/07\/Wanna-be-in-LOVE_-Feat.-Evie-_-Stellar-Blade_-BLOODRAIN-3-12-screenshot.jpg\" data-featherlight=\"image\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"Stellar Blade Blood Rain Evie AI music video\" class=\"lazyload\" bad-src=\"\/files\/2026\/07\/Wanna-be-in-LOVE_-Feat.-Evie-_-Stellar-Blade_-BLOODRAIN-3-12-screenshot-80x45.jpg\"  data-\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not all sentiment was negative, though. One fan said, \u201cYeah\u2026 I\u2019m in love\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another said, \u201cI\u2019m [not gonna lie]. the video is funny, I\u2019m not even mad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/shift-up-reveals-stellar-blade-sequel-blood-rain\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stellar Blade: Blood Rain was announced at Summer Games Fest 2026<\/a>, with an in-game trailer starring the games new protagonist.<\/p>\n<p>The original Stellar Blade is <a class=\"link-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/stellar-blade-is-coming-to-switch-2-later-this-year\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launching on Nintendo Switch 2 later this year<\/a>, Shift Up recently announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stellar Blade: Blood Rain doesn\u2019t have a confirmed release date, but an AI-generated music video released on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-721017","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\/721017","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=721017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}