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Boy George to release new music and art as NFT
“Art is like a partner? Can you live with it? Digital art is a new emotion and it can be very musical. I’m mixing all of the things I do together, music, art, fashion, poetry and anything else it leads to. I have stopped refusing to be influenced.”
Other artists to join Crypto.com’s initiative include Snoop Dogg, viral sea shanty singer Nathan Evans, and Lionel Richie.
NFTs have quickly become a presence in the music industry and beyond in recent weeks. Earlier this month, Kings Of Leon released their new album ‘When You See Yourself’ as NFTs.
Other artists getting involved include Grimes, who recently auctioned off 10 exclusive pieces of NFT crypto art – dubbed WarNymph Collection Vol.1 – over a 48-hour period, and Halsey.
Last week, Aphex Twin sold a piece, titled afx/weirdcoreblockscanner, as an NFT for £90,000, and pledged to spend some of the money on offsetting the carbon footprint of the deal.
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Boy George apologises to former Culture Club drummer Jon Moss
Boy George. Credit: Brian Rasic/WireImage
In an interview published in The Daily Star‘s Wired column, George said: “We are having this court case so I thought I would call him as I thought I was really moved by the script and I was really moved by the story of how we met and I suddenly thought: ‘You know what, I forgot about all that.’
“I forgot about all that really amazing stuff when I met him and you know how much I was in love with him and how it was so beautiful and exciting and all the stuff happened. It got lost in all this kind of bitterness and all this feuding.
“So it was interesting for me to sit with Jon and go: ‘Actually mate, I might have to apologise to you for some things.”
Earlier this year (June 12) George defended his controversial stance on gender pronouns, after facing criticism for his comments.
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The singer faced a backlash earlier this year when he tweeted “leave your pronouns at the door”, before going on to describe preferred pronouns as a “modern form of attention-seeking.”
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Boy George says he’s written “six or seven” albums worth of music in lockdown
“I’m not saying every single thing is good, but I signed a deal just before Christmas with a company called Primary Wave, whose job it is to go out and place your music in movies,” George explained. “I own copyright with them. It’s a new experience for me to own music.”
He continued: “I don’t own any of the stuff I did in the 80s – the publishers can do what they want with it and they do do what they want with it.
Speaking about Culture Club’s chart-topping single ‘Karma Chameleon’, he told Theroux that “not only do I not own it, they can change the lyrics, give it to a burger shop.”
“They have done that,” he said. “They did a version of ‘Karma Chameleon’ that was about carrots and peas. Of course we see money from it but I’d pay them not to do that.”
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Elsewhere in the interview, George revealed why he didn’t perform at Live Aid, 35 years after the iconic charity concert.
The singer said he didn’t take to the stage at the Wembley Stadium show because he was “otherwise engaged chemically.”
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