Boy George says he used AI to create his controversial new pro-Israel reggae song ‘We Will Dance Again’

Boy George has admitted he used AI to help write his new pro-Israel reggae song ‘We Will Dance Again’. The Culture Club frontman posted the song on social media over the weekend, accompanied by the Hebrew title ‘עוד נרקוד’ and the caption: “Shalom.” Its opening line, “You say genocide, I say war”, rejects the description of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza as genocide, presenting it as a response to the Hamas-led attack on the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023, where 344 civilians and 34 security personnel were killed and 44 people were taken hostage. Boy George also uses the song to criticise musicians who have publicly shown support for Palestine. “You condemn the Jews, with selective memory / Musicians holding flags, mouthing like sheep / Propaganda fuelled by the Internet feels so weak,” he sings. The phrase ‘We Will Dance Again’ has been used as an expression of resilience by Israelis following October 7, and was also used for a 2024 documentary that explored the Nova festival attack. A United Nations Commission concluded last year that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, and said last month that genocidal acts were continuing through attacks tar...