The Velvet sunset page on Spotify also denies any link from Andrew Frelon-The presumes “spokesperson” with the group
The pseudonym Andrew Frelonwith those who spoke Rolling stone Last Wednesday, 2, as a spokesperson for the viral de ia Velvet Sundown – and this manages a Twitter account that claims to represent the group – Now he says, in a post in MiddleWhich was all an average farce of the media. The official page of the band in Spotify He also published a warning insisting on this Free – this had “confirmed” that the band created songs with the instrument AI Sun – You have no link with the group. At the moment, Velvet Sundown has over 850 thousand monthly listeners in Spotify.
A report of Velvet Sundown no x, connected to the official page of the band in Spotifyhe sent a message to Rolling stone In the early hours of Thursday asking for a correction and reaffirms the repudiation of Free. “We understand the charm that our project wakes up – and we are not here to dissipate the mystery,” said the account through DM. “But we are here to correct the facts … Velvet Sundown It is a multidisciplinary artistic project that mixes music, analog aesthetic and speculative narratives. Although we have embraced ambiguity as part of our narrative design, we wonder that the relationships on us are based on verifiable sources, not on buildings or synthetic media. “(The” band “has not yet responded to the additional commentary order.)
In your wide post on Middle, Free He says he took advantage of the absence of Velvet Sundown On social networks and transformed an account that had created in March into what seemed to be the band’s “official profile”. From there, he said he used a series of tricks of “social engineering” – including interactions with the press – to make the profile legitimate, with the alleged objective of testing journalists.
“Knowing, for previous projects, how the dynamics of the journalistic coverage work,” he wrote, “I thought it would have been fun to start drawing journalists in a generic way not to look for the comments.” Free also said to Rolling stoneWednesday, which has a great interest in the “artistic faces”. (The phone number from which Free The code, with the area code 514, now displays a “out of service number” message)
Despite the obviously artificial origin of their photos and songs, Velvet Sundown Has been included in different playlists of the Spotifyconquering a significant audience that led to a large media coverage. Glenn McDonaldex “data alchemist” Spotifysaid to Rolling stone That the band’s ascent is an example of the change “of understandable algorithms, with a strong base in listening and real human communities” for systems guided by artificial intelligence, capable of “selecting music for recommendations based on purely valid characteristics”.
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