Kid Bookie tackles the topic of artificial intelligence with his new single: “I wanted to prod and jest a subject that’s kind of new territory for music and in its infancy…”
After we caught up with him in the studio a couple of months back, we’ve finally heard the first new offering from Kid Bookie – and it was worth the wait!
The musician has just unveiled massive new single AI (Save Yourself), which is taken from his upcoming album Songs For The Living // Songs For The Dead (due out in full next summer via Marshall Records).
Speaking about the meaning behind the track, Kid Bookie explains: “I wanted to prod and jest a subject that’s kind of new territory for music and in its infancy. It’s cool to listen to Michael Jackson do screamo and System Of A Down via AI manipulation or some shit, but there’s a darker side.
“I think the longer it’s left in the grey area, the more significant the impact it will be for artists and industry folk alike,” he continues. “But I’m not scared of computers, and I don’t think it will be some Terminator apocalypse, just another evolution that affects the art, for better or worse, who knows.”
Talking to Kerrang! in September about the title of his next record, he revealed that Songs For The Living // Songs For The Dead is a “ride from life to death from my perspective of living, because I am obsessed with dying”.
“I’m only going to do it once,” he said. “It’s the one thing I’ll never get to understand because I can’t experience it then speak about it. It’s an intriguing fact to plunder – not in a scary way, but using it to tackle fear. There’s no right or wrong, we just throw ideas into what death is. That’s why I enjoy using death as a subject matter in my shit – as well as enjoying life!”
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