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‘That’s obviously wrong’: Mick Jagger says AI can make music, but it shouldn’t be used to copy the Rolling Stones
Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger says artificial intelligence (AI) can be a useful tool for making music. Yet, he believes that the technology should not be used to imitate existing artists. Speaking to Billboard, Jagger said he opposes AI-generated songs that sound like the Rolling Stones, while supporting the technology when it is used to create original work.“You don’t really want to be imitated by AI, obviously. I don’t want people just putting stuff out there that can sound exactly like the Rolling Stones. I think that’s obviously wrong,” he added. Jagger said he does not object to AI being part of the music-making process, provided the result reflects the creator’s own ideas. “If someone wants to make music by AI, I mean, go ahead. But it has to be original, you know. It has to be you — you have to have your own input and your own thoughts,” Jagger highlighted.
AI can help, but creativity should remain human: Mick Jagger
Jagger described AI as another stage in the evolution of music recording technology, noting that he has seen major changes in the studio over his six-decade career.“In a way, if you’re clever, you can use that technology greatly to your advantage to make things go quicker, to make boring things go quicker,” Jagger said. However, he said the creative process itself should remain with musicians.“In my opinion, you’ve got to write the songs, you have to play them, and you play them live. Of course, you can overdub, I’ve been doing overdub since 1965, that’s not new,” he said.Jagger also acknowledged that some people are already using AI to generate songs in the style of established artists, including the Rolling Stones.“But I mean, if you were any kind of creative person, you wouldn’t do that,” he added.
AI debate continues across the music industry
Jagger’s comments come after the Rolling Stones used AI in the music video for their latest single, In the Stars. Released in May, the video used AI to replace the faces of musicians portraying the band with younger versions of the Rolling Stones.“They’re not fake people in a fake room. All those drummers that you see are all real drummers, and they’re all playing in a real room. The musicians are real musicians who look a bit like The Rolling Stones in 1968. The only thing was the faces,” Jagger said. He joins other musicians who have publicly discussed AI’s role in music. In 2023, Jason Derulo said he did not view AI as a threat to musicians because lyrics generated by bots lacked “soul.”“As we progress and as technology progresses, we’ll have more and more tools. Hopefully, the creativity of the product continues to grow with the technology as opposed to using technology as a crutch,” Derulo noted.In May, Jack Antonoff, the lead vocalist of Bleachers and a longtime collaborator with Taylor Swift, published an open letter criticising what he described as “bad actors” using AI in the creative process.“So to everyone who is gassed up about the new ways you can fake making art, by all means, drive right off that cliff. We’re genuinely happy to see you go,” Antonoff wrote in the letter.
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