Boy George Says He Frequently Uses AI to Help Him Write Music: 'I Have Fantastic Conversations with ChatGPT'

Rachel DeSantisMon, March 9, 2026 at 11:27 PM UTC

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Boy George on the Fearne Cotton's Happy Place podcastCredit: Fearne Cotton's Happy Place/YouTube -

Boy George said he loves using AI to help write his music

The star said he's written "like, five albums already" using artificial intelligence

He said it helps him as a lyricist

Boy George is opening up about the ways in which he uses AI to enhance his songwriting.

The Culture Club singer, 64, revealed that he’s used artificial intelligence to write multiple albums, and feels as though it’s “really helped me as a lyricist.”

“I’ve written like, five albums already with AI… AI is brilliant. Nothing to fear,” he said on the March 2 episode of Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place podcast. “I say to everyone, if you get replaced by a robot, you weren’t trying hard enough… Obviously I care about people losing their jobs… But there’s so many great things.”

The “Karma Chameleon” singer cited his recent track “I Am Iran,” and explained that he’d used AI to help him write lyrics in Persian.

“Obviously I don’t sing in Persian… I don’t write as a Persian because obviously I’m not, so I write in a way that’s very British and it translates so interestingly into Persian,” he said.

Boy George — who has been on tour with Culture Club since February, and has tour dates scheduled through the end of the month — also said he loves the fact that AI allows him to work on his own.

“I have fantastic conversations with ChatGPT and I’ll say, ‘Oh that [lyric is] crap, that’s not what I would say,’” he said. “You can train it. And my manager last night was saying, ‘You know you’re talking to someone in China.’ I was like, I couldn’t care less. I said, it doesn’t matter… An artist like me, they try to force you to work in an old-fashioned way. I’m ahead of them.”

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Liza Minnelli recently defended her use of AI on the EDM song “Kids Wait Till You Hear This,” which was released in January as part of a collaborative album spearheaded by ElevenLabs, an AI audio research and deployment company.

“We used AI arrangements. Not AI vocals. A few trolls didn’t bother to read the truth, check with me or my partners,” she wrote on Facebook. “The shout outs are all mine!”

Boy George performing in London in July 2025.Credit: Lorne Thomson/Redferns/Getty

Still, other artists have struggled with the advancements of the technology, like SZA, who told i-D Magazine she felt like she was “at war because of AI.”

“It’s happening disproportionately with Black music,” she added. “Why am I hearing AI covers of Olivia Dean, when Olivia Dean just came the f--- out? She can’t even collect the streams. I’m also really offended by the type of Black music that’s coming out of AI. Weird, stereotypical struggle music.”

In November, an AI-generated country song called “Walk My Walk” topped the Billboard Country Digital Song Sales chart, just two months after Spotify announced it would be implementing stronger AI protections for artists, songwriters and producers.

At the time, the streaming platform said that over 75 million spam tracks had been removed, and the service was focused on "improved enforcement of impersonation violations," "a new spam filtering system" and "AI disclosures for music with industry-standard credits."

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