EXILE IN THE UNCANNY VALLEY: South Park Creators’ AI Company Made The Rolling Stones Young Again for ‘In The Stars’ Music Video.

The Rolling Stones look straight out of the 1970s in the legendary rock band’s music video for new single “In the Stars,” thanks to de-aging technology courtesy of South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone‘s AI company Deep Voodoo.

In the François Rousselet-directed video, which features Odessa A’zion, the band is rocking out in a warehouse as a crowd of fans dances around them and a slew of other musicians join in on the song too. At one point A’zion licks the digitally de-aged Mick Jagger’s face.

“Are you kidding me? It’s my dream,” A’zion said 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.”

There appears to be a variety of “is that him or isn’t it?” quick cuts of digitally recreated ‘70s-era Stones sidemen such as Billy Preston and Bobby Keys as well in the video:

The Beatles’ Get Back used heavy audio and video processing to generate almost eight hours of television footage from the raw footage shot for Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s 1970 Let It Be documentary. Bohemian Rhapsody, Rocketman and Michael used actors to tell their stories. Last year’s Becoming Led Zeppelin used clever editing of a handful of the band’s rare early television appearances to flesh out a two-hour documentary. Are the Stones opening up a floodgate of AI recreations of AARP-qualified bands who can afford the use of the technology, for both rock videos and documentaries?