Grimes judges “the world’s first series of avatar singing contests”

Remember when Grimes was an alt-pop artist your parents certainly didn’t know? Between her recent Saturday Night Live cameo alongside his partner Elon Musk and make the headlines for name your child X Æ A-Xii, Those days are long gone. And if your parents didn’t already know who Grimes was, they’ll know now. She will be a judge in a Fox singing competition, alongside Alanis Morissette, Will.I.Am. and Nick Lachey. Rocsi Diaz is about to host.

The show is called Alter ego, and given how much Grimes cares about AI, this is a series on the appropriate theme for her. According to Fork, the show is “the world’s first avatar singing contest series”, using motion capture technology so contestants can create “dream avatars.” No premiere date has been announced yet, but it should arrive in the fall.

And no it won’t be like The masked singer where they have to guess where the competitor is. The singers will be ordinary people, who will have a chance to become famous thanks to Pixel-perfect-ing themselves. The teaser features Fortnite– looking for digital avatars and a virtual stage, but it looks like the judges will be watching the performances in person together, from the show’s Instagram page showed a photo of the motley team posing in the studio.

In other Grimes and AI news, she recently revealed that their next album will be an AI-themed space opera. The album would center on a character named Claire De Lune, “an artificial courtesan who was implanted in a simulation that is a memory of the story of the creation of AI on Earth from the brain of the engineer who invented AI because he wants to relive his life, but see if his perfect dream girl could equip him to love as well, he would preserve humanity this time rather than let them slip into obscurity – defeated by the machines. She added that Claire De Lune also ends up falling in love with a “main AI demon” called Dark Matter, and “they fall into a lesbian romance due to being the only two of them. fully AI beings in this universe “.