, which allows fans to upload their songs to her site and then map her voice over pre-existing vocals. Since then, a number of songs have been made and distributed to streaming services that note “GrimesAI” as a featured artist, separating out these collaborations from Grimes’ official artist page.
Some skeptics were unsure how Grimes’ plan would work in practice at the time of her announcement and whether it would be possible to actually police inappropriate content and proper royalty splitting. The TuneCore and CreateSafe partnership provides more of the necessary framework for Grimes to monitor and consent to what songs are released using her AI voice.
The idea for the partnership came up during conversations at Beatport’s International Music Summer in Ibiza in late April, according to a press release from Tunecore.