Lorde Slams ‘Inaccurate’ Spotify AI Song Descriptions of ‘Current Affairs’: ‘We Don’t Want This’
Spotify responded that "when something's off, we move fast to fix it."
Lorde performs onstage at the 2026 Governors Ball Music Festival held at Flushing Meadows Corona Park on June 5, 2026 in New York, New York.
There is one person who is definitely not feeling Spotify’s AI-fueled song description generator. After the streamer rolled out the new element that breaks down the alleged meanings behind some of your favorite songs earlier this year, Lorde is calling BS on the whole project.
In an Instagram Story on Thursday (July 16), the “Man of the Year” singer slammed the “About the Song” feature, claiming that the streamer was publishing inaccurate information about the song from her most recent studio album, 2025’s Virgin. “Hey @spotify i’m gonna go out on a limb n say we don’t want this,” Lorde wrote. “Not only is this inaccurate (not the song i did that in) but reducing a song to an ai generated meaning right at the source feels like it limits free interpretation imo. At least make it possible for artists to opt out please.”
The Story also featured a screenshot of the offending AI description, which reads: “On her Ultrasound World Tour, Lorde turns Current Affairs into a full-on performance piece, stripping down to underwear while a dancer pours water over her stomach so the song plays out like the shower scene she talks about on stage.” On her Ultrasound tour, the choreographed bit where Lorde gets water poured on her occurs during the song “GRWM.”
In a statement to Billboard about the feature launched in February, a Spotify spokesperson responded, “We built ‘About the Song’ because fans want to dig into the stories behind the music. It’s still in beta. The info comes from articles across the internet, and when something’s off, we move fast to fix it, like we did here. Getting it right matters to us.”
At press time Spotify had not elaborated on how it will tweak “About the Song” to avoid issues such as the ones Lorde brought up in her post.
Like many artists, Lorde seems, at best, on the fence about the use of AI in music. And this is not the first time she has called it out, coming on the heels of her AI diss during a set at the Mad Cool Festival in Madrid on July 9, when she slammed wearable AI technology. “Increasingly, in our world, it gets harder and harder to know what is real,” she said on stage. “Can I just say, for the record, f–k the glasses. Don’t get the glasses. Not sexy.”
Lorde’s tour will hit Ostrava, Czechia for the Colours of Ostrava festival on Saturday (July 18).
