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In April, Grimes<\/a> told Interview<\/em><\/a> that she had recorded a new AI-themed album with the very Grimesian title of Psy Opera<\/em>, and that it would include songs called \u201cThe Light Ages\u201d and \u201cEve Is Online.\u201d While we still don\u2019t have a release date, a press release for the just-released lead single, \u201cAccelerando\u201d\u2014a possible reference to the 2005 sci-fi novel of the same name\u2014gives a better picture of what promises to be a predictably bizarre record: \u201cFrom the AI debate to immoral wars to a bad ex to looksmaxers to the importance of religion, Psy Opera<\/em> will cover everything Grimes witnessed as a woman of history during her hiatus from pop music.\u201d You can listen to the new song below, which features lyrics like \u201cAmerican lobotomy ya a a a\/Accelerando\/Better than a Van Gogh?\/Eat me if u wanna ya yayaya.\u201d<\/p>\n Grimes is a longtime advocate of AI, particularly concerning its use in music. In 2024, she featured on an episode of the PBS series A Brief History of the Future<\/em>, where she called AI an \u201copportunity\u201d for musicians to showcase even more of their skills. \u201cWhen everyone has the same tools that can make professional quality stuff, then you get to see the actual talent, like, really rise to the top,\u201d she said. The year before, she offered<\/a> 50 percent royalties to anyone who created a successful AI-generated song using her voice.<\/p>\n In addition to \u201cAccelerando,\u201d Grimes has invited fans to join a channel<\/a> on Instagram called \u201cEve Is Online,\u201d and revealed a Psy Opera<\/em> trailer featuring a dystopian, AI-themed retelling of the Gospel of John in the New Testament. \u201cIn the beginning was the word and the word was God. And man made God in his image, and God embraced man\u2019s nature,\u201d she says in the clip. \u201cAnd Eden was forged in metal and artificial light rivaled the sun.\u201d<\/p>\n Psy Opera<\/em> is Grimes\u2019 first album in six years, following 2020\u2019s Miss Anthropocene<\/a>.<\/em> Her new record will be her first on her own label, Nazgul Recording LLC, which she launched after parting ways<\/a> with Columbia.<\/p>\n