Last month, Boy George launched a new company called Artist Included, which will use AI to allow artists to create new versions of earlier songs which resemble the originals, as a way of wresting back control of master recordings. It launched with a new version of Karma Chameleon, which Boy George recorded then de-aged. “When I heard it, I was absolutely gobsmacked,” he told the Hollywood Reporter. “It sounds like another take from that original session.”
He’s just going all-in on the shit-takes. Probably, just desperate for people to talk about him again.
He’s just a man who doesn’t know how to sell a contradiction.
He should just go, he should just go away.
He should have did what T Swift did. Record a cover version of your album/song and tell your fans to just listen to that version.
You can shit talk her all you want but that was a smart move.
She stole that from Prince.
Well, I dunno about this one. Ownership of master recordings and royalty agreements are a serious issue in the music industry. Bands and musicians having to make a new recording of their own songs as a way to get royalties (as in any at all) for streaming isn’t unheard of. And it’s something that goes back longer than streaming.
So what he’s saying here (my take on what you quoted) is he’s using AI to modify his own new recording of his own song to more closely resemble the recording that some other entity has control over. Honestly I don’t mind that.
Depends largely on the training data. If it’s completely trained on music he owns the copyright to, more power to him.
A total of 344 civilians and 34 security personnel were killed and 44 people were taken hostage.
The overall Palestinian death toll since the war started is more than 73,000
way to minimise the attacks guardian. classy rag
Which attacks did they minimize, Jimbo?
Are you sure you want to go “death count for death count” between Israel and Palestine? You really want to go there?
For one, we would be here all day. But two, it would become almost immediately obvious that one is larger than the other by several orders of magnitude.
Are people asking me, as someone with principles, to turn my back on my Jewish friends? That is not going to happen – it will never happen. From the beginning of my career, I wore the Star of David … I feel very connected to the Jewish people. I’m not necessarily connected to Israel. I don’t really have an opinion on that. But the mission of music is to unite people.”
He said, after shoving his uninformed opinion on Israel and it’s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people down everyone’s throat…
Like, it doesn’t seem that he actually supports what’s happening, it’s more like he has no fucking idea what is happening.
He doesn’t even understand that Israel doesn’t control the Jewish people.
Saying Israel is committing a genocide only betrays your friends who support the genocide, it has fuck all to do with religion.
Palestine’s issues aren’t that the people living in Israel are Jewish, it’s that the people living in Israel don’t see Palestinians as humans. They could be Christians, Muslims, or Atheists and the Palestinians would still be upset they’re victims of decades long genocide.
That’s pretty much everyone’s response to genocide, it doesn’t matter why your people are a target, you just don’t want to be genocided.
He said, after shoving his uninformed opinion on Israel and it’s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people down everyone’s throat…
It’s okay to not be informed. Totally fine, if you don’t know about it, maybe just don’t take a definitive position on it? That’s a rational thing to do. Even more rational would be like “I don’t know enough about this, so, I need to educate myself”. Totally understandable…
What’s pretty fucking stupid, no matter what the subject, is to go “I don’t know wtf is going on… but here’s my opinion endorsing one side of it”.
The crux of the issue is in his head:
Israel = Jewish and Jewish = Israel
Same thing with Biden.
Israel spent literal generations conflating the two and making people think they were the same. It shouldn’t be surprising when elderly people act like they’re the same.
What’s important is making sure people that still have fully functional brains understand it’s bullshit. And use it as an example for how propaganda can effect people so we don’t fall for the same thing under a different topic.
Same thing with Biden.
Same thing with everyone who repeats the Likud line.
It’s okay to not be informed.
Yes but it’s not OK to have strong opinions on genocide while being uninformed about it.
Edit:
OK, I see you got there eventually.
If he believes that the mission of music is to unite people, why is he writing songs that imply killing kids and civilians, and eradicating an ethnic group, is okay as long as you call it ‘war’
That’s…not very ‘uniting’ of him
wow the transphobe is also pro genocide who’d have thought.
https://www.them.us/story/boy-george-keeps-saying-stupid-things-about-trans-people
Boy George is a transphobe? WTF? I always thought he WAS trans.
It honestly sounds like he’s super fucking jealous seeing people transition with social support, and having the complete wrong reaction to that feeling.
It screams narcissistic personality disorder.
Are you thinking of Pete Burns from Dead or Alive?
I feel like the transphobia isnt the most crazy shit in that article
A biopic of the singer’s life written and directed by Sacha Gervasi is currently in development. George expressed to the Sunday Times that he is concerned how the film will portray his 2009 imprisonment for assaulting and kidnapping a sex worker, for which he was sentenced to 15 months in jail.
Just read that article. That guy is a massive piece of shit. Terf Island strikes again.
george michael and darren hayes (australian but lives in the uk) are real ones though.
and of course freddie <3
the androgynous glamrock twat is anti trans?
fascinating. fuck 'em, got no time for terfs
Leave your pronoun’s at the door!
I suppose it makes sense a person who struggles with basic grammar would have a hard time with pronouns.
Motherfuck that guy. Bitch ass falsely imprisoned a male escort & beat him up.
The quote is from the judge. He got 15 months.
Also did community service after falsely reporting a burglary.
Wait what? Why did Boy George beat up an escort?
Edit: I’m sorry…IMPRISONED and beat up
Edit 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_George#Drug_abuse_and_legal_troubles
On 5 December 2008, Boy George was convicted in Snaresbrook Crown Court, London, of the April 2007 assault and false imprisonment of Audun Carlsen, a Norwegian model and male escort, who initially stood for a photography session with Boy George. Carlsen alleged that he had been handcuffed to a wall fixture and beaten with a metal chain during their next meeting. Boy George maintained that only the handcuffing was true and that he never beat Carlsen.[112][113][114] Defence counsel presented the effects of his long-term drug use as a mitigating factor.[115] On 16 January 2009, Boy George was sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment for these offences.[116] He was initially incarcerated at HM Prison Pentonville in London, but was then transferred to HM Prison Highpoint North in Suffolk. He was given early release after four months on 11 May 2009. He was required to wear an ankle monitor and submit to a curfew for the remainder of his sentence.[117]
Ugh. Didn’t know he only served 4 months. Hope that rat bastard has to register as some kind of offender.
The lyrics quoted in the article are beyond cringe. Eat shit, Georgie.
so he can fuck off. gotcha.
I guess he doesn’t realize there are quite a lot of Jewish people around the world (including song in Israel) who consider what’s happening in Palestine to be genocide.
But then I strongly suspect there’s a lot of things he doesn’t realize. He seems quite clueless in general.
Well Boy George can go get fucked by a rusty knife then.
Do you really want to hurt him?
Do you really want to make him cry?
…yes?
It comes and goes. It comes and go-oooooes.
Bruh.
Every once in a while, an accomplished person grows old, then says a bunch of ridiculous and appalling shit and wreck their own legacy.
See JK Rowling. See James Watson. See Richard Dawkins.
an accomplished person grows old
And Boy George also has grown old.
Fascist spotted.
Selling his soul just to be relevant again.
We should idolize celebrities more. Totally working out for us.
/s
Wait what?!!
Guess I have been living under a rock because I had no idea he was a pos. I mean genuinely I only know the 2-3 songs that pop up in the 80’s charts.
“I just need to behave like a human”
That leaves the mass murdering IDF out.
Humans do all kinds of evil shit to each other.
So… he’s okay with genocide if the people fight back?
Pretty sure Jews resisted the Nazis 100 years ago… does he think that wasn’t a genocide either?
Also TIL “genocide” is a bad word on iOS. You can’t trace type it, you have to tap it out like a Neanderthal.
Pretty sure Jews resisted the Nazis 100 years ago…
Some did. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising
I don’t use that feature, but I’m curious. Does the trace type permit other -cides, like suicide, homicide, patricide, infanticide, etc? I can’t help but wonder what the limit here is.
What about homi-cider? Cider made by my homies
Genocide
Got it on Android
Checkmate, other phone people! Swipe-typed and everything. Come to the EVOLVED mobile OS /s (don’t, Android is a piece of shit and getting worse)
You’re preaching to the choir. I’ve used Android since 2010 (and iOS since 2016). I have a 2024 iPhone 16 Pro Max, and a 2019 Galaxy S10 (years included to make a point, they aren’t part of the name of the phone and those phone models did not have releases in other years). Guess which one types better. Not to mention the customisation. It’s also not that much slower. It’s really not slow. I’d make it a daily driver if it had a newer battery. The thing only lasts a couple hours. Absolute joy to use when it works.
I can argue in favour of either of them, or against either of them. At the end of the day, one is made by an advertising company but has more options, and the other is made by a computer that sucks up to its country’s supreme ruler and treats its users like children. Neither platform is “better”. They both suck, and they both do a few things well. Most of the things people do are done at least acceptably on both.
The big change with Android I think you’re referring to is the 24-hour lock on unsigned code. So right now (and forever with my S10 because it’s not getting updates anymore), you can install a .apk (Android Package) from the Internet and it just works, just like a .exe on Windows or a .app on macOS (what I use). So with Android in 2027 or 2028 or whenever they are going to do this, you will need to go into the settings and enable unsigned code. Otherwise, no .apk installation for you, you must go through the Play Store. However, if you do do it, you must wait 24 hours for the feature to unlock. So, say I buy a new Android phone that has this feature. Being a savvy user, the very first thing I’m doing is enabling that setting. Then I’m gonna go install Nova Launcher and its Prime unlocker, Poweramp, and all my go-to Android apps. When the 24 hours is up, by then I’ll have things set up how I want, and then I can start installing stuff from outside the Play Store. I can’t think of anything, but I want the ability to decide for myself. The problem is, and the reason this feature exists, is if you want something right fucking now, you have to wait. So scammers will make an app and they will try to get people to install it. Those people would enable the feature and then have to wait 24 hours. Google is hoping that in that time, you realise installing some sketchy app is a really bad idea, so you don’t do it, and maybe turn the feature back off. Of course, “trust us, our app store is safe” is almost always bullshit. Apple was found to have been harbouring, and profiting from, a fake cryto wallet app that stole over a million dollars from a half dozen plaintiffs who are suing. This was an app in Apple’s App Store that they said is safe, and they lost many thousands, in some cases hundreds of thousands of dollars, on Apple’s promises. And of course Google is no better.
Poweramp’s global eq should actually just be part of the os.
Poweramp — or maybe PlayerPro, I forget which one — used to have a feature where you could set the EQ per song. Maybe also per album, per playlist, per whatever the hell. It was neat.
I’m one of those guys who trusts the person mastering the audio to set the levels right, so I leave my EQ off. That being said, I absolutely support the end user’s right to screw with their audio however they want. I used to like Winamp’s “small speakers” (or maybe it was “laptop speakers”) preset, but… I had small speakers.
