Universal Music again demands streaming platform support over AI-created music as fake Drake goes viral

Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick have gone viral with a video they made in protest of the drag bans happening in the United States.Since the beginning of 2023, dozens of bills have been filed in states across America, targeting drag performances.Last month in Nashville, Tennessee, lawmakers passed a law that bans one class of entertainer: «male and female impersonators,» otherwise known as drag performers. However, a day before the nation's first anti-drag law was set to take effect, a federal judge temporarily blocked it for violating the First Amendment.Now, Bacon and Sedgwick are throwing themselves behind the LGBTQ+ community by dancing to Taylor Swift's «Karma» to raise awareness about the bans on drag queens. The Twitter video starts with the married couple in matching T-shirts standing far away from the camera.

Emily Ratajkowski is opening up about how she felt in the aftermath of her makeout video with Harry Styles going viral, saying she «feels bad» for Olivia Wilde while adding that there was no confrontation or developed rivalry between her and Wilde in the days and weeks that followed.The 31-year-old model/actress spoke to Spain and was asked about a perpetuated narrative in the media of an enmity between her and Wilde in wake of her makeout session with the «As It Was» singer in Tokyo, Japan last month. When she was asked about that narrative, Ratajkowski brought up Adam Levine's cheating allegations and Summer Stroh, the woman at the center of the scandal, before addressing Wilde.«These approaches occur over and over again.

Jessica Chastain is speaking out after a video of herself went viral on TikTok.

Earlier this week, there was an AI-generated song that was blowing up on social media and streaming platforms featuring the replicated voices of both Drake and The Weeknd.

A video of Chance the Rapper dancing while attending a party at Carnival 2023 in Jamaica is going viral and it’s also sparking a debate about what’s appropriate for a married man to do with other women.

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There have been lots of complaints about Frank Ocean‘s set at the 2023 Coachella Music Festival and a TikTok user is going viral for her explanation of what seemingly what wrong.

Thania Garcia Universal Music Group Nashville (UMGN) has tapped Lori Christian and Rob Femia to join its executive board. Christian has been upped to executive VP of marketing, while Femia has been named executive VP of business and legal affairs for the label group consisting of Capitol Records Nashville, EMI Records Nashville, Mercury Nashville, and MCA Nashville. Christian was formerly senior VP of marketing, a role she occupied in 2020 after leading the publicity department at UMG Nashville following the 2012 merger of EMI and UMG. In her elevated post, she will oversee UMG Nashville’s artist development, brands and sponsorship, creative services, international marketing, and media marketing departments for the label’s artist roster. She has previously worked to launch projects for Alan Jackson, Carrie Underwood, Chris Stapleton, Darius Rucker, Keith Urban, and Luke Bryan, among others.

A song using Drake and The Weeknd's vocals, generated using artificial intelligence (AI), has gone viral on TikTok. The song, titled "Heart on my Sleeve," seemingly cloned the two rappers' voices to create a song about Selena Gomez, The Weeknd's ex-girlfriend.The creator of the song goes by @GhostWriter on TikTok and has shared multiple videos on the account using the new song. The original video announcing the song currently has 10 million views.Three other videos shared by @GhostWriter each have just over a million views.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Are you ready for deep-fake-Drake? Many fans are, at least as an amusing lark, as an apparently artificial-intelligence-generated “collaboration” between “Drake” and “the Weeknd” began to go viral over the weekend, for how closely the styles of the two superstars are mimicked in a track titled “Heart on My Sleeve.” It’s no joke, though, to artists and labels wondering whether such soundalike tracks can quickly be quashed, and whether gullible fans may have a hard time telling the difference if the trend accelerates. The mystery account behind the AI song, identifying as Ghostwriter, left no clues about how the imitative track was brought into being, or what information was fed into programs to create it. But in two minutes and 16 seconds, “Heart on My Sleeve” consists of two distinct verses and a chorus sung by voices distinctly resembling the two stars, with lyrics referring to Selena Gomez, who was reported to have been dating the Weeknd in the mid-2010s. Sample lyrics: “I came in with my ex like Selena to flex, aye / Bumpin’ Justin Bieber the fever ain’t left, aye”… And, “Talkin’ to a diva yeah she on my nerves / She think that I need her, kick her to the curb ‘ All I know is you could’ve had the world … yeah, you were my world.”

Universal Music Group has been in correspondence with the major music streaming platforms, including Apple Music and Spotify, to demand that the companies help block the AI programs that are creating new songs based on the music of UMG artists. A report published last week by the Financial Times contains emails and interviews with sources close to UMG.

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Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor The world’s largest music company, Universal Music Group, is asking major streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music to block artificial intelligence companies from using its music to “train” their technology, according to a recent report in Financial Times. Confirming the report, a UMG spokesperson told the FT: “We have a moral and commercial responsibility to our artists to work to prevent the unauthorized use of their music and to stop platforms from ingesting content that violates the rights of artists and other creators. We expect our platform partners will want to prevent their services from being used in ways that harm artists.”

Popular hip-hop media personality DJ Akademiks has signed an exclusive streaming deal with Rumble, a site that brands itself as “immune to cancel culture”; hosts right-wing figures such as Dinesh D’Souza, Dan Bongino, and Sean Hannity, as well as the Donald Trump-owned platform Truth Social; and is funded in part by tech billionaire Peter Thiel and Republican Ohio senator J.D. Vance.

A sweet social media video from Millie Bobby Brown’s past has taken on a whole new resonance after her apparent revelation that she’s engaged to beau Jake Bongiovi.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's California home has a proper good samaritan as their neighbor. It seems that the actor turned politician, who was Governor of California from 2003 to 2011, still has an unwavering commitment to public service, even 20 years after being sworn into office.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie, claiming film critics are “disconnected from reality”.The animated children’s film, adapted from the iconic Nintendo video game franchise, was released in cinemas last week.Reviews have generally been negative, and the film currently holds “Rotten” critics’ score of 57 per cent on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes.However, the audience score – which is voted for by non professional critics – currently sits at 96 per cent positive, making it “Fresh”.On Twitter, Musk commented on the disparity between the critics and audience after an account called @BoredOfElonMusk shared an image of the Rotten Tomatoes scores.“Content review systems are broken.

Cheryl has discussed whether she will ever return to the music industry to release new material.The former Girls Aloud singer is currently appearing in London’s West End as the lead role in supernatural thriller 2:22: A Ghost Story.The singer has been playing the starring role of Jenny from January, a role that was played originally by Lily Allen when the show opened in London in summer 2021. She took over from TV presenter Laura Whitmore in the role.Earlier this week (April 4), fans stopped Cheryl outside the Lyric Theatre to chat to her and take photos.As Mail Online report, one fan then asked Cheryl about her future plans after appearing in the show.“What am I going to do?” she replied, with one fan then saying: “Music.

Multilingual king. Ben Affleck speaking Spanish has made the rounds again and people are definitely surprised. The Air director proved his skills in a new interview with La Cadena SER, a Spanish radio network.