The Rolling Stones look incredible in their latest video. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood don’t look a day beyond 1972 as they kick-start a party heaving with groovy youngsters. That’s AI for you. It’s a cheeky conceit that works because In the Stars is classic, timeless, swashbuckling Stones. Tick. Now compare it with Paul McCartney’s latest. An invisible hand scrawls the lyrics to Days We Left Behind with ink on paper. A fireside guitar rings as the odd postwar photograph drifts into frame.
Liverpool. Childhood. Mother Mary. Old friend John. It’s Macca at his most sentimental, another masterstroke of melodious emotion. Tick. Long after the most famous rivalry in rock’n’roll stopped mattering, consistency remains the most astounding feature of each brand, to use the modern parlance nobody was crass enough to invoke in the old days. There’s more common ground now. The Beatle plays bass on the imminent Stones album – just on one track, as he did on their last – and both legends have employed lucky
Millennial hitmaker Andrew Watt to produce their new albums.
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AI music is getting kinda out of hand but this sounds catchy I guess.
Wait so McCartney’s video is like… invisible hand writing lyrics? That’s weird but also kinda sweet?? I didn’t expect “Days We Left Behind” to be so sentimental.
So the Stones video is 1972 still?? I saw something on TikTok about AI de-aging and thought that was fake like they were just using old footage. But now it’s saying “don’t look a day beyond 1972” like it’s magic. Also Paul only plays bass on one track? That seems like a weird brag to me.
Honestly I’m confused why they keep mentioning Andrew Watt like he’s the main character lol. Didn’t he do the same thing for other artists? I swear I read somewhere the Beatle rivalry is basically over so I don’t get why this still feels like a comparison. Still though, Liverpool + Mother Mary + old friend John = instant feels whether it’s AI or not.