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Mick Jagger Dismisses AI Title Ideas as 'Rubbish' While Stones Point to Musicianship and Winehouse Tribute

The comments signal the band's reluctance to use generative AI for songwriting and a renewed focus on live instruments on their new record.

Overview

  • Mick Jagger told Sunday Times Culture on Sunday that he fed album-title ideas into an AI when naming 2023's Hackney Diamonds and found the machine's suggestions “rubbish,” saying the exercise ultimately boosted his confidence in his own titles.
  • Jagger described using AI for titles only and called AI-assisted songwriting “a whole other conversation,” indicating caution about letting generative tools write core material for the band.
  • Keith Richards praised Jagger's harmonica work as a key form of expression, arguing the instrument can convey more than vocals, and the band says live playing remains central to their sound.
  • Ronnie Wood and Richards recalled their 2007 set with Amy Winehouse and reflected on her death, and the coverage reports the Stones' forthcoming album, Foreign Tongues, includes a cover of Winehouse’s 'You Know I'm No Good.'
  • The remarks tie into a larger debate over AI in creative work by showing a major band testing but rejecting AI for core songwriting while leaning on human craft and musical legacy for new material.