Grimes Shares First Song From AI-Inspired Album Psy Opera
The album promises to cover everything the singer “witnessed as a woman of history during her hiatus from pop music”
In April, Grimes announced she was working on a new AI-themed album titled Psy Opera, which would feature tracks named "The Light Ages" and "Eve Is Online." Although a release date has not been set, a press release for the debut single, "Accelerando," offers a glimpse into the album's content. "Accelerando," possibly a nod to the 2005 sci-fi novel, covers a range of topics from the AI debate to immoral wars to the impact of looksmaxers and religion, as experienced by Grimes during her time away from pop music.
The song's lyrics include lines like "American lobotomy ya a a a/Accelerando/Better than a Van Gogh?/Eat me if u wanna ya yayaya."
Grimes, a staunch supporter of AI, particularly in music, discussed the potential of AI on an episode of PBS's A Brief History of the Future in 2024. She expressed her belief that AI could help showcase musicians' true talents when everyone has access to professional-grade tools. She had previously offered 50 percent royalties to anyone who created a successful AI-generated song using her voice.
In addition to "Accelerando," Grimes has invited fans to join an Instagram channel called "Eve Is Online" and shared a Psy Opera trailer depicting a dystopian, AI-inspired adaptation of the Gospel of John from the New Testament. In the video, Grimes quotes, "In the beginning was the word and the word was God. And man made God in his image, and God embraced man's nature."
"Eden was forged in metal and artificial light rivaled the sun," she adds. This marks Grimes' first album in six years since 2020's Miss Anthropocene, and it will be her first release on her own label, Nazgul Recording LLC, after leaving Columbia.
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