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Perth Now
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
'Don't be fooled': Crowded House dispel fake AI news that frontman Neil Finn suffers from erectile dysfunction
Crowded House have shot down a false AI-generated report claiming frontman Neil Finn suffers from erectile dysfunction. In the bizarre clip, TVNZ journalist Simon Dallow reports on the fake news that the Don't Dream It's Over hitmaker has recently had a child after struggling with impotence. An AI version of Finn says in the broadcast: 'I never thought I'd be able to become a father again. Honestly, I believe that chapter of my life was closed, not because I didn't want it, but because I simply couldn't. 'For years, I lived with a problem most men are too ashamed to talk about. My erections became weaker and weaker until they stopped altogether. No desire, no confidence, no control. I was too embarrassed to even talk to my wife about it." Māori doctor Lance O'Sullivan also makes an appearance in AI form to offer her expert advice on the issue. The New Zealand group re-posted the clip and warned fans "don't be fooled". A statement on their Facebook page read: 'We're not sure where this came from, but please don't be fooled. 'Neil's never had trouble with erections.' Many musicians and celebrities have raised their concerns about AI. Recently, Nick Cave admitted his view of artificial intelligence as an artistic tool has begun to shift. The 66-year-old singer-songwriter and frontman of The Bad Seeds has long been a vocal critic of the technologygy. He previously described AI as 'unbelievably disturbing' and warned of a 'humiliating effect' on the creative industries. But he confessed his view changed after watching a new AI-powered video made to mark the 40th anniversary of his song Tupelo. Writing on The Red Hand Files platform, he said: 'As I watched Andrew's surreal little film, I felt my view of AI as an artistic device soften. 'To some extent, my mind was changed.' The video he was referring to was created by 56-year-old filmmaker Andrew Dominik, and used AI to animate still archival images. Tupelo is a 1985 single he has performed 'at nearly every Bad Seeds concert since it was first written'. The track depicts the mythic birth of Elvis Presley during a storm in Tupelo, Mississippi. Nick was initially sceptical when he learned AI had been used to create the video. Filmmaker Andrew has previously collaborated with Nick on the 2016 documentary One More Time With Feeling and the 2022 film This Much I Know to Be True. Nick added in his online post he found the video 'an extraordinarily profound interpretation of the song – a soulful, moving, and entirely original retelling of Tupelo, rich in mythos and a touching tribute to the great Elvis Presley, as well as to the song itself." He also said the AI-animated images of Elvis 'had an uncanny quality, as if he had been raised from the dead, and the crucifixion-resurrection images at the end were both shocking and deeply affecting." In January 2023, Nick publicly condemned ChatGPT, telling fans on his blog that it should 'f*** off and leave songwriting alone'. He added at the time: 'I feel sad about it, disappointed that there are smart people out there that actually think the artistic act is so mundane that it can be replicated by a machine.' Nick also branded submissions of ChatGPT-generated lyrics written in the style of Nick Cave as "bulls***' and 'a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human."
Yahoo
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Rock Icon Turned Down Collaborating With Controversial Goth Singer
Rock Icon Turned Down Collaborating With Controversial Goth Singer originally appeared on Parade. Nick Cave collaborating with would have been something special back in the 1980s. Even in 2025, it would have been huge, but Cave revealed that a partnership between these two underground rock icons was not meant to be. Cave first found success in the late 1970s by leading the post-punk band The Birthday Party. In the early 1980s, Cave formed Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, incorporating darker sounds and themes into their music, making them contemporaries of the goth movement of the time. A star of that movement was Morrissey, lyricist and frontman for the gothic rock band The Smiths. And these two nearly worked together on a song. 'I've never actually met Morrissey, which is probably why I like him,' wrote Cave in a recent edition of his newsletter, The Red Hand Files. Cave acknowledged Morrissey as 'undeniably a complex and divisive figure, someone who takes more than a little pleasure in pissing people off.' But Cave considers him 'probably the best lyricist of his generation — certainly the strangest, funniest, most sophisticated, and most subtle.' Nick revealed that through 'a few pleasant email exchanges,' Morrissey asked him to sing on a new song with a 'lengthy and entirely irrelevant Greek bouzouki intro.' 'It also seemed that he didn't want me to actually sing on the song,' wrote Nick, 'but deliver, over the top of the bouzouki, an unnecessarily provocative and slightly silly anti-woke screed he had written.' 'Although I suppose I agreed with the sentiment on some level, it just wasn't my thing. I try to keep politics, cultural or otherwise, out of the music I am involved with. I find that it has a diminishing effect and is antithetical to whatever it is I am trying to achieve. So...I politely declined. I said no.' In recent decades, the 66-year-old Morrissey has drawn ire over political views and statements. In 2019, he wore a pin in support of For Britain, a far-right political party, per The Guardian. He also has a history of inflammatory remarks about race, the #MeToo movement, and more, often leaving fans feeling 'betrayed.'Rock Icon Turned Down Collaborating With Controversial Goth Singer first appeared on Parade on Jun 17, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jun 17, 2025, where it first appeared.
