{"id":591369,"date":"2026-07-18T01:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T01:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/591369\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T01:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T01:48:20","slug":"lorde-slams-inaccurate-spotify-ai-song-description-of-current-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/591369\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorde Slams ‘Inaccurate’ Spotify AI Song Description of ‘Current Affairs’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThere is one person who is definitely not feeling Spotify<\/a>\u2018s AI-fueled song description generator. After the streamer rolled out the new element that breaks down the alleged meanings behind some of your favorite songs earlier this year, Lorde<\/a> is calling BS on the whole project.<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn an Instagram Story<\/a> on Thursday (July 16), the \u201cMan of the Year\u201d singer slammed the \u201cAbout the Song\u201d feature, claiming that the streamer was publishing inaccurate information about the song from her most recent studio album, 2025\u2019s Virgin. \u201cHey @spotify i\u2019m gonna go out on a limb n say we don\u2019t want this,\u201d Lorde wrote. \u201cNot only is this inaccurate (not the song i did that in) but reducing a song to an ai generated meaning right at the source feels like it limits free interpretation imo. At least make it possible for artists to opt out please.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Story also featured a screenshot of the offending AI description, which reads: \u201cOn her Ultrasound World Tour, Lorde turns Current Affairs into a full-on performance piece, stripping down to underwear while a dancer pours water over her stomach so the song plays out like the shower scene she talks about on stage.\u201d On her Ultrasound tour, the choreographed bit where Lorde gets water poured on her occurs during the song \u201cGRWM.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement to Billboard about the feature launched in February, a Spotify spokesperson responded, \u201cWe built \u2018About the Song\u2019 because fans want to dig into the stories behind the music. It\u2019s still in beta. The info comes from articles across the internet, and when something\u2019s off, we move fast to fix it, like we did here. Getting it right matters to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAt press time Spotify had not elaborated on how it will tweak \u201cAbout the Song\u201d to avoid issues such as the ones Lorde brought up in her post. <\/p>\n

\n\tLike many artists, Lorde seems, at best, on the fence about the use of AI in music. And this is not the first time she has called it out, coming on the heels of her AI diss during a set at the Mad Cool Festival in Madrid on July 9, when she slammed wearable AI technology<\/a>. \u201cIncreasingly, in our world, it gets harder and harder to know what is real,\u201d she said on stage. \u201cCan I just say, for the record, f\u2013k the glasses. Don\u2019t get the glasses. Not sexy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLorde\u2019s tour will hit Ostrava, Czechia for the Colours of Ostrava festival on Saturday (July 18).<\/p>\n


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