Grimes' Psy Opera: AI, Rap, & Indie Evolution

0:00It's April 20th, this is music news today, powered by AI Your Daily Soundcheck. I'm Cory with the story. Grimes just dropped some fire in a new interview, magazine chat with sci-fi writer Ineti Okorfor. She's teasing her almost finished album called Sci Opera, with tracks like The Light Ages and Eve is on mine. It's her first full project since Miss Anthropocene back in 2020. What got her back in the studio? She stepped away from music a couple years ago, but writing a rap for a K-pop artist flipped the switch. She loved it so much she kept the track, though she hit a rough patch figuring out her lane as a white rapper. On the AI front, her lead singles video ditched the digital dancers in the end. She mostly skips generative AI for her beats, but one cut, deep seek, rocks lyrics from a Chinese open-source model. Grimes called it awesome, and even joked about catching some AI psychosis. Looking back, she started grinding and parking lots outside big shows from bands like Radio

1:01Head and Godspeed you Black Emperor. She laughed off her stage name sounding like a cartoon villain at first, but now owns it fully. Since splitting from Columbia records after a few singles, she's gone independent with Naz Ghul recording, dropping tracks like Idgoth and Artificial. Angels last year, Sci opera's shaping up to hit different, blending her wild evolution.