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The Beatles have beennominatedfor two Grammy honour this year , and no , we did not accidentally fall into a time warp back to the 1960s . The Beatles ’ song “ Now and Then , ” refined with the use of AI and released last year , is up for Record of the Year and Best Rock Performance . So , the fab four will be up against artists like Sabrina Carpenter , Chappell Roan , and Beyoncé , setting the tone for a pretty weird Grammys moment .
Though the band has been broken up for 50 years , Paul McCartney decided to use AI last yr to create “ the last Beatles record . ” McCartney is n’t using this technology to resurrect his late bandmates , John Lennon and George Harrison , with deepfakes . alternatively , McCartney took one of Lennon ’s demo from 1978 and used AI to clean up the transcription ’s poor sound quality .
McCartney took divine guidance from the film maker Peter Jackson ’s “ The Beatles : Get Back , ” the 2021 documentary serial publication free-base on archival footage of recording sessions for “ Let It Be . ” These recording from 1969 did n’t sound very good , but the picture ’s duologue editor in chief Emile de la Rey used AI to acknowledge each of the Beatles ’ voice and isolate them from background noise . This same technology help manufacturer Giles Martin make a new stereophony mix for the Beatles ’ 1966 record album “ Revolver . ”
This AI - base audio editing is interchangeable to how video chat platforms like FaceTime , Google Meet , or Zoom might filter out background disturbance from a call . Machine eruditeness models can be civilise on something specific — whether that ’s a human voice on a video call , or a specific form of guitar in a studio apartment — and learn to isolate those sounds from the rest of a recording .
Can fellow nominees like Billie Eilish and Kendrick Lamar stand a luck against the Beatles at the Grammys ? Maybe the real question is if the Beatles can win solely based on freshness — of all songs nominate for Record of the Year , “ Now and Then ” has thefewest Spotify streamsat 78 million . If the Beatles are “ more pop than Jesus , ” then so is Charli XCX now , too .