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[–] 151 points 3 months ago (8 children)

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.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months 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.

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  • [–] 87 points 3 months ago* (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    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".

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    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

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  • [–] 47 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    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]

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  • [–] 41 points 3 months ago

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

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  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months 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.

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  • [–] 37 points 3 months ago

    so he can fuck off. gotcha.

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  • [–] 37 points 3 months 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.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Do you really want to hurt him?

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago

    Selling his soul just to be relevant again.

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

    /s

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    "I just need to behave like a human"

    That leaves the mass murdering IDF out.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    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)

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Poweramp's global eq should actually just be part of the os.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago

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

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    Irrelevant bitch is still irrelevant

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    Guess he's just used to being unpopular.

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    Genocide is cool when we do it.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago

    Fascist spotted.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    I'd forgot that Boy George even existed.

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    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

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

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    That song is the real war crime.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months 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?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months 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.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Tel aviv impressed

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

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

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago

    Nothing justifies ethnic genocide...

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Has anyone asked what Ja Rule thinks?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    New Morrissey just dropped

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

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

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I know he'll miss me with his irrelevant ass takes

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Old people really need to stop

    Being pro-genocide is not an age issue. The people getting arrested and jailed in the UK for opposing genocide include a large over-60s contingent. You shouldn't assume that your relative lack of life experience makes you in any way superior.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Sorry, famous old people. And that is from life experience since a new person pops up all the time and has been more and more over the years. Half the time you also hear about it when they die and everyones comments let it know what you may have missed.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Is that the same hat Prince wore on George Harrison's hall of fame induction?

    It's a disgrace associating that hat with genocide.

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    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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