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[-] LordMayor@piefed.social 146 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago

He’s just a man who doesn’t know how to sell a contradiction.

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[-] baronvonj@piefed.social 21 points 3 weeks ago

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.

https://americansongwriter.com/4-earlier-artists-who-pulled-a-taylor-swift-and-re-recorded-their-music/

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.

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[-] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 17 points 3 weeks ago

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.

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[-] jimmy90@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] prole 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 81 points 3 weeks ago
[-] The_Lurker@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago

Boy George is a transphobe? WTF? I always thought he WAS trans.

[-] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

It honestly sounds like he's super fucking jealous seeing people transition with social support, and having the complete wrong reaction to that feeling.

[-] SCmSTR 7 points 3 weeks ago

It screams narcissistic personality disorder.

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[-] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] SCmSTR 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Just read that article. That guy is a massive piece of shit. Terf Island strikes again.

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[-] neuroneiro@lemmy.world 46 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] SCmSTR 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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]

[-] neuroneiro@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Ugh. Didn’t know he only served 4 months. Hope that rat bastard has to register as some kind of offender.

[-] SayJess 40 points 3 weeks ago

The lyrics quoted in the article are beyond cringe. Eat shit, Georgie.

[-] flandish@lemmy.world 37 points 3 weeks ago

so he can fuck off. gotcha.

[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 35 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[-] unmagical@lemmy.ml 27 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Insekticus@aussie.zone 27 points 3 weeks ago

Well Boy George can go get fucked by a rusty knife then.

[-] KingOfSleep@lemmy.ca 28 points 3 weeks ago

Do you really want to hurt him?

[-] Bhaelfur@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago

Do you really want to make him cry?

[-] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago

Fascist spotted.

[-] MushuChupacabra@piefed.world 22 points 3 weeks ago

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.

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[-] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 20 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

Selling his soul just to be relevant again.

We should idolize celebrities more. Totally working out for us.

/s

[-] CyroSignal@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

Nothing justifies ethnic genocide...

[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 weeks ago

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.

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[-] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 weeks ago

What a piece of shit, I'm going to casually change nothing and continue to ignore this dude

[-] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

"I just need to behave like a human"

That leaves the mass murdering IDF out.

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[-] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

Guess he's just used to being unpopular.

[-] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

Genocide is cool when we do it.

[-] switcheroo@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

Irrelevant bitch is still irrelevant

[-] BaraCoded@literature.cafe 10 points 3 weeks ago
[-] bigbangdangler@reddthat.com 9 points 3 weeks ago

Surely he'd be Man George by now, if not for his stupid opinions.

[-] normalentrance@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago

Nothing of value was lost. Glad it wasn't a relevant artist that I like.

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Among insipid early-80s pop has-beens that I avoid listening to, are there any others who also wrongheadedly choose to pontificate on politics?

[-] osanna@lemmy.vg 7 points 3 weeks ago

wait, he's still relevant?

[-] 0ndead@infosec.pub 6 points 3 weeks ago

Look at who he lived with on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. I’m guessing he’s been a right wing nutter for a long time.

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

That song is the real war crime.

[-] PotatoPie@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago

Tel aviv impressed

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago

Wow! This guy changes his colours like...I don't know what!

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[-] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Old people really need to stop... most of them probably all have terrible views on lots of things, but if they stay irrelevant ill never know! This just keeps happening more and more lately and it forces me to continue building my list of everyone I lost respect for. Just stay in obscurity and this would never happen!

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[-] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 6 points 3 weeks ago

Ok, so what happened to "War is Stupid?"

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 5 points 3 weeks ago

New Morrissey just dropped

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Has anyone asked what Ja Rule thinks?

[-] SlothMama@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Okay and Cat Stevens released a song called Afghanistan under the name Yussef Islam effectively in tacit support of what would be understood later as the Taliban.

See, old out of touch musicians are wrong all the time

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