After fans called the new Beatles track ‘fake’ on Twitter, John Lennon’s son Sean Ono clarified the confusion behind the upcoming song. Paul McCartney also recently tweeted to let fans know that Lennon’s voice on the track is indeed real by saying:
“Been great to see such an exciting response to our forthcoming Beatles project. No one is more excited than us to be sharing something with you later in the year. We’ve seen some confusion and speculation about it. Seems to be a lot of guesswork out there. I can’t say too much at this stage, but to be clear, nothing has been artificially or synthetically created. It’s all real, and we all play on it. We cleaned up some existing recordings – a process that has gone on for years. We hope you love it as much as we do. More news in due course.”
McCartney shared that the AI they used didn’t create the sound of Lennon; the technology was used to only clean up the demos, just like Sean recently tried to explain in one of his tweets where he wrote:
“All we did was clean the noise from the vocal track. People are completely misunderstanding what occurred. There have always been ways of ‘de-noising’ tracks, but AI just does it better because it learns what the vocal is and is able to remove everything that is not the vocal very precisely.”
Even though the final Beatles track’s title hasn’t been revealed, BBC shared that it might be Lennon’s ‘Now And Then,’ which was initially on a demo titled ‘For Paul.’
You can read Paul McCartney’s and Sean Ono Lennon’s tweets below.
Been great to see such an exciting response to our forthcoming Beatles project. No one is more excited than us to be sharing something with you later in the year.
We’ve seen some confusion and speculation about it. Seems to be a lot of guess work out there. Can’t say too much…
— Paul McCartney (@PaulMcCartney) June 22, 2023
That is not happening. All we did was clean the noise from the vocal track. People are completely misunderstanding what occurred. There have always been ways of ‘de-noising’ tracks but AI just does it better because it learns what the vocal is and is able to very precisely remove…
— Seán Ono Lennon (@seanonolennon) June 17, 2023
