Mick Jagger turned to AI to find album title

Los Angeles, July 5 (IANS) Singer-songwriter Sir Mick Jagger of the legendary band the Rolling Stones, has shared that he sought help from AI to find an album title.

The Rolling Stones frontman was having trouble coming up with a name for the group’s 2023 record, Hackney Diamonds, so turned to the technology, and while it only offered “rubbish” suggestions, that gave the 82-year-old star more confidence in his own ideas, reports ‘Female First UK’.

Asked if the group would use AI to write songs, Mick told Sunday Times Culture magazine, “AI is a whole other conversation. The only time I used it was when I was looking for album titles for Hackney Diamonds, which was actually, I suppose, at the beginning of AI. Because no one could agree, and I threw all these titles at it, and it came back with such rubbish, it didn’t help me at all”.

He further mentioned, “I was saying, ‘These are my 12 album titles, give me some more’, and of course in the end we never used any of them. But it can unstick you, and you think, ‘OK, that was rubbish’, or ‘Mine are loads better than yours’. It gives you confidence”.

As per ‘Female First UK’, despite his recognisable tone, Mick’s bandmate, Keith Richards, thinks the frontman expresses himself better on harmonica than with his vocals.

Keith said, “Mick expresses himself on harmonica probably in the fullest way that he can, even better than as a vocalist”.

The instrument is used to great effect on the band’s new album, Foreign Tongues, on a cover of Amy Winehouse’s ‘You Know I’m No Good’. Ronnie Wood was a friend of the late singer, who died from accidental alcohol poisoning in 2011, aged 27, and he is still saddened by her passing.

He said, “She would go, ‘Oh Ronnie, what am I going to do?’ I said, ‘Look, everyone knows you’ve got vodka in the water bottle. Get it together and get on stage.’ “But if you could get her up there and she stayed there, it’d be great. I’m sad because she didn’t do her full span. It was like saying goodbye to Billie Holiday again”.

Keith regrets never getting to know the Rehab singer, though they played together at the 2007 Isle of Wight Festival.

“I was always sort of ‘well, I’m bound to meet her down the road’. You expect things to happen, and unfortunately no. But that’s what records are for. I’m just very glad and honoured to have played with her at least once”, he added.

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