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British pop icons the Pet Shop Boys have dropped hints about a potential tour in Australia. During an appearance on The Project on Thursday night, singer Neil Tennant, 69, and bandmate Chris Lowe, 64, revealed that they are planning on bringing their music Down Under next year. Neil expressed their plans, saying, 'We're planning to do a tour in Australia. I think maybe next year.'

She is about to have her 12th number-one album with her latest project The Tortured Poets Department stealing the fastest-selling spot this year from Beyonce. But the Pet Shop Boys lead vocalist and 80s icon, Neil Tennant, is not convinced by Ms Swift, 34, and argued she has no stand-out hits such as Micheal Jackson's Thriller and Billie Jean. The 68-year-old said: 'She fascinates me as a sort of phenomenon because she is so popular.

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YouTube has used a recent feature, Dream Track, to create new songs. Dream Track, the Google-owned platform's equivalent to TikTok's that lets users post short videos, is now available in YouTube Shorts. Users just have to choose the artist they want to imitate from a prompt (such as 'upbeat' or 'ballad').

The Pet Shop Boys, a British pop star, claim that AI technology can be used in a constructive way in the creative process. Neil Tennant (left), the group's drummer, said that AI could 'fill the gaps' if a song was unfinished, such as when the composer is suffering from writer's block. Tennant and his bandmate Chris Lowe also looked at new technologies as they plan their 'Dreamworld' best hits tour in Europe this summer. The pair discussed the possibility of following Abba's footsteps by doing an avatar tour (top right). The teenager daughter of their boss's eldest daughter's request that a bot perform a song in the style of Pet Shop Boys had enthralled Tennant. Despite the fact that the bot she used, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has a range of Pet Shop Boys-style tunes on its online AI Jukebox, which is also shown below.

MICK HUME: Can anybody be safe from today's cancel culture and the modern statue-smashing, history-erasing thought police? First, the awakened culture warriors were known for their historical hate figures. The statue of Bristol merchant and Tory MP Edward Colston was erected in protest for his ties to the slave trade. Cecil Rhodes' statue was removed from an Oxford college as a symbol of British colonialism, according to the students. Evidently, they've scrapped a proposed statue of gay 1960s playwright Joe Orton, long a hero to liberal luvvies, due to his well-known sexual preference for teenage boys in Morocco and elsewhere.