The Kinks’ Dave Davies reacts to “horrible” AI cover of the band

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The Kinks’ Dave Davies has reacted to what he’s described as a “fukin horrible” AI cover of one of the band’s songs.The “new original track”, which was uploaded back in January and called ‘Hop Skip Jump’, has now been removed – but not before Davies had seen it.Davies posted to X/Twitter: “What the fuk is this???

This Kinks AI cover is like horror show sounds fukin horrible.”Star Wars actor Mark Hamill also commented on Davies’ post, writing “you will be happy to know when I clicked on this it said ‘video unavailable’. (Still curious what The Kinks AI would sound like though),” to which Davies replied: “this one was s***”.What the fuk is this???

This Kinks AI cover is like horror show sounds fukin horrible The Kinks A.i – Hop Skip Jump!" – Latest Original Track https://t.co/2cdI4YNXcU via @YouTube— Dave Davies (@davedavieskinks) August 30, 2024This one was s**t https://t.co/EVuNURw9Ba— Dave Davies (@davedavieskinks) August 30, 2024Later, the original creator of the clip apologised and posted a video of his band doing a cover of The Kinks’ ‘Living On A Thin Line’.Davies was more approving of this and wrote back: “I really like your cover”.Sorry Dave I’m a big fan and my favourite all time band .