Metal Anarchy

When Emmure were announced for this year’s Vans Warped Tour, the event shared an AI video featuring vocalist Frankie Palmeri animated in the style of “The Simpsons.” However, the clip ended up generating backlash from fans in the comment section and led Palmeri to respond to one of them. According to him, “people have made such an incredibly, unnecessarily harsh critique about something so innocuous.”

Palmeri had the following exchange:

Instagram user: “All the money y’all make & you can’t hire an artist to make this, instead you use ai?”

Palmeri: “I have an artist I work with regularly when I aim to make content like this. Due to time restrictions, they weren’t able to produce the content without cutting corners. To be completely honest, I didn’t even want to make anything for this announcement. But, with respect to @vanswarpedtour and @kevinlyman I went ahead and made an announcement video clip. That’s all this is.

You and countless other people have made such an incredibly, unnecessarily harsh critique about something so innocuous I’m actually shocked. Sorry I didn’t want to pretend to smile at a camera and talk about a “punk rock” fest, that of which I never even asked to be a part of to begin with.After 9 albums, a dozen music videos, countless live shows, the fucking audacity to lambast me over 15 seconds of “artificial” art is astonishing.
Thanks.”

[via The PRP]