Rolling Stones De-Age Themselves in “In The Stars” Music Video

The Rolling Stones look straight out of the Seventies in the legendary rock band’s music video for brand spanking new single “In the Stars,” because of de-aging know-how courtesy of south park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone‘s AI firm Deep Voodoo.

In the François Rousselet-directed video, which options Odessa A’zion, the band is rocking out in a warehouse as a crowd of followers dances round them and a slew of different musicians be a part of in on the tune too. At one level A’zion licks the digitally de-aged Mick Jagger’s face.

“Are you kidding me? It’s my dream,” A’zion mentioned of starring in a Rolling Stones music video. “The first record that I ever got that I listened to from start to finish was Tattoo You. I’m obsessed with the Rolling Stones. “This is in my bucket list for sure.”

Check out the total music video right here.

Overall, the deepfakes are spectacular, if not possibly a tad uncanny, exhibiting a near-perfect reproduction of how Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood seemed in the late ’70s. It’s laborious to say precisely what the method to develop the deepfakes was, though the video’s credit listing physique doubles for Jagger, Richards and Wood in the forged. Meanwhile, the video’s credit on the Deep Voodoo aspect lists an “AI data wrangler” in addition to deepfake artists for all three of the band members’ AIs.

This is simply the newest main deepfake music video for Deep Voodoo, which had additionally supplied the tech for Kendrick Lamar’s well-known “The Heart Part 5” video from 2022, morphing the rapper’s face into that of OJ Simpson, Kanye West and Kobe Bryant amongst others. More much like the Stones video, Deep Voodoo additionally helped de-age Billie Joel in the music video for his 2024 tune “Turn the Lights Back On.”

“Our goal is to make beautiful, cinematic film and television that never pulls the viewer out because the effect doesn’t look right,” Deep Voodoo government Jennifer Howell told THR in an article in regards to the firm printed in March.

The “In the Stars” music video is the newest in the Stones’ rollout for his or her upcoming 25th album Foreign Tongues, which they revealed final week. Along with “In the Stars,” the band additionally launched the album’s opening monitor “Rough and Twisted” as nicely.

The album is about to launch on July 10.