Back in the spring, Grimes began teasing a new album called Psy Opera, as perfectly on-brand a title as I can imagine for this artist. As Grimes explained it, Psy Opera is a concept album about the potential for human extinction at the hands of AI that also stemmed from her belief that humans are not as inferior as some big AI acolytes claim. Although she has long been an AI enthusiast, she clarified that she does not use generative AI in her music, including this upcoming AI-inspired concept album.
This week she added that 70 humans worked on the trailer she dropped on Wednesday over a period of many months. She did admit to using Deepseek to come up with lyrics for a song about Deepseek. Here's how she explained it at the time: I was thinking about how everyone is like, "We’re building gods." I’m like, "Why do you automatically assume you’re so much lesser?
You’re literally responsible for creating AI. You’re abdicating so much self-esteem and pride and responsibility and agency when you act like whatever AI is, no one has a hand in it." And I was getting emotional because we might really go extinct, for a number of reasons. Human life is very frail and time is very long.
But I’d hope, if we had good relations with AI, they would take our DNA and make more of us when things get more hospitable. Today, she has shared her first song from the project. "ACCELERANDO" is a huge, sweeping, apocalyptic dance track created in tandem with her frequent collaborator VADAKIN.
I'm not saying this is Visions/Art Angels quality, but hearing her voice on this track, I was reminded why she became such a big deal in the first place. Listen below, and watch the music video starting at 1 p.m. "ACCELERANDO" is out now on Nazgul/Eternal Recurrence.
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