Overview
- Suno said Thursday it removed an 85-second advertisement featuring Mary J. Blige after learning the company had struck a business deal with someone who falsely claimed to represent her and that Blige was uncomfortable with the campaign.
- The video showed Blige in a studio as a producer used Suno to build a track called “Pretty Flowers,” and she appears to call the process “dope” and “amazing,” though heavily edited clips made her remarks unclear.
- At least one circulated edit reportedly included a synthetic-sounding voice resembling Blige’s, and those edits helped fuel online backlash over whether the ad misrepresented her endorsement.
- Neither Suno nor Blige’s camp has identified the person who arranged the deal, leaving the approval chain and how the footage was authorized unresolved.
- The episode comes while Suno faces multiple copyright lawsuits and a recent German court ruling against it even as it has licensing deals with Warner and BMG, which heightens questions about artist consent, dataset use and possible industry or regulatory changes.