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Yahoo
3 hours ago
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Nick Cave Says Andrew Dominik's New Video for ‘Tupelo' Has Changed His Mind on AI, Kinda
Nick Cave hasn't always held artificial intelligence in the highest regard. Back in 2023, a fan sent him a song that ChatGPT had generated 'in the style of Nick Cave,' to which the musician bluntly responded: 'The apocalypse is well on its way.' But Cave's opinion has changed somewhat after the filmmaker Andrew Dominik used AI to create a new music video for 'Tupelo' on the occasion of the song's 40th anniversary. 'As I watched Andrew's surreal little film, I felt my view of AI as an artistic device soften,' Cave wrote on his 'Red Hand Files' site in response to a fan question. 'To some extent, my mind was changed. 'It's a tool, like any other,' said Andrew.' More from Rolling Stone Nick Cave Did Not Want to Read Morrissey's 'Silly Anti-Woke Screed' for New Song Nicolas Cage Is Mistaken for Nick Cave So Often It Feels Like a Daily Occurrence Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Level Up at Brooklyn Arena Rock Concert Cave and the Bad Seeds released 'Tupelo' as their second single in 1985 and it's been a staple of his live sets ever since. The song uses John Lee Hooker's track of the same name, about a devastating flood in Tupelo, as a jumping off point for an apocryphal tale about Elvis Presley's birth in the same Mississippi city. Dominik — who's directed such films as The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Blonde, and Cave's documentary, One More Time With Feeling — leans into the Elvis mythos in the video. The clip takes a bunch of old still photos of the King and uses AI to animate them. Or as Dominik put it, according to Cave, 'I've taken a series of still archival images and brought them to life using AI.' Cave said he wasn't aware that Dominik was working on the project until he shared the final cut. And the musician admitted he was skeptical when the filmmaker first described video due to his previous reservations about AI. Cave stated he's still concerned about 'writers using ChatGPT and other language models to do their creative work,' as well as 'song-generating platforms that reduce music to a mere commodity, by eliminating the artistic process and its attendant struggles entirely.' Still, Cave said Dominik encouraged him to 'suspend [his] fucking prejudices and take a look.' And after watching his 'Tupelo' visual a few times, he admitted that he and his wife, Susie, were surprised at how much they liked it. '[W]e found it to be 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,' Cave wrote. 'The AI-animated photographs 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. Susie and I were blown away.' Cave ended his letter by ruminating on the importance of being able to 'change one's mind,' calling it 'the very definition of strength.' He continued, 'We pursue the truth wherever it may lead, remaining flexible and humble enough to adjust our views as new evidence emerges, regardless of how uncomfortable that may feel. It is ultimately a form of resilience, not a sign of weakness. Rigidity breaks; flexibility endures.' Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
10 hours ago
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Nick Cave admit his view of artificial intelligence as an artistic tool has begun to shift
Nick Cave has 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 artificial intelligence. He previously described the technology as 'unbelievably disturbing' and warned of a 'humiliating effect' on the creative industries. But he confessed his view has changed after seeing 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 added on The Red Hand Files he was initially sceptical when he learned AI had been used to create the video that has gone with it. 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 The Red Hand Files 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 received multiple fan submissions of ChatGPT-generated lyrics written 'in the style of Nick Cave' were ones he viewed as 'bulls***' and 'a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human'.
Perth Now
10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Nick Cave admit his view of artificial intelligence as an artistic tool has begun to shift
Nick Cave has 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 artificial intelligence. He previously described the technology as 'unbelievably disturbing' and warned of a 'humiliating effect' on the creative industries. But he confessed his view has changed after seeing 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 added on The Red Hand Files he was initially sceptical when he learned AI had been used to create the video that has gone with it. 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 The Red Hand Files 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 received multiple fan submissions of ChatGPT-generated lyrics written 'in the style of Nick Cave' were ones he viewed as 'bulls***' and 'a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human'.
Times
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Times
Collapse of fashion label The Vampire's Wife investigated
The fallout from the closure of a cult fashion brand worn by royalty and celebrities remains unresolved as investigations continue into events leading to its collapse. The Vampire's Wife was launched by Susie Bick, the former supermodel and wife of the musician Nick Cave. The brand's Falconetti dress was worn by the Princess of Wales for her official portrait alongside Prince William, completed by Jamie Coreth in 2022. Other customers included the actors Jennifer Aniston and Rachel Weisz, the model Kate Moss, and singers Florence Welch and Kylie Minogue. Harry Styles, the singer, and Brad Pitt, the actor, have the label's custom-made tote bags. The company went into administration in July last year after receiving a tax bill from HM Revenue & Customs, which was owed more than £700,000. The administrator's accounts showed that although the company had £852,000 in a bank account, its total estimated financial deficiency was £1.18 has already settled an outstanding bill from a financing company recorded as being owed £600,000 after it called in his personal guarantee. The winding up of a company normally ends within 12 months, but the administrators have been given more time after saying they are investigating the brand's affairs prior to its collapse. The administrators stated in their most recent report: 'Initial assessment of the company's records suggested that there could be a matter that might lead to recoveries for the insolvent estate and thus further investigations were considered necessary.' Bick, 58, launched the label in 2014 and named it after an unfinished novel written by her Iovine, co-founder of Interscope Records and Beats Electronics, made a significant investment in the company in 2019. Bick's son, Arthur, died aged 15 in a fall from a cliff near Brighton after taking LSD in 2015. Cave's album, Ghosteen, was written in the aftermath. Bick announced the closure of the fashion label in an Instagram post in May last year, writing: 'I wish to thank my extended family at The Vampire's Wife who helped me create such beautiful things.' Cave, 67, later wrote on social media: 'The Vampire's Wife was not just a clothing company, it was a pure and necessary articulation of the grief that Susie felt in the wake of the death of our son, Arthur. 'The Vampire's Wife was Susie's Ghosteen … Susie's dresses were an attempt to give her grief form by throwing fabric over an invisible boy, as an act of love, an act of mercy, and an act of contrition… 'The clothes Susie created were objects of devotion, sacred things that will live on regardless of the brand's fortunes.'
The Independent
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Nick Cave shares poignant reflection a decade on from son's death
Musician Nick Cave has shared a poignant reflection on the loss of his son, Arthur, 10 years after his death. Arthur was just 15 when he died on 15 July 2015 after falling from a cliff in Brighton. Responding to a fan question on his Red Hand Files website, Cave, 67, discussed how grief evolves, becoming 'less a personal affront' and 'more a poetic quality of being'. He explained that he learned he is 'part of a common human story' and that sorrow can grow 'richer, deeper, and more textured'. Cave also reflected on how Arthur's death impacted his views on religion, seeing God as a 'form of perception' woven into all experiences.
