{"id":203505,"date":"2025-11-06T08:19:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T08:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/06\/gayle-king-drags-interviews-the-real-person-behind-ai-artist-xania-monet\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T08:19:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T08:19:58","slug":"gayle-king-drags-interviews-the-real-person-behind-ai-artist-xania-monet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/06\/gayle-king-drags-interviews-the-real-person-behind-ai-artist-xania-monet\/","title":{"rendered":"Gayle King Drags Interviews the Real Person Behind AI Artist Xania Monet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div> <b>Gayle King<\/b> sat down with <b>Telisha &#8220;Nikki&#8221; Jones<\/b> the person behind AI artist <b>Xania Monet<\/b> who recently signed a multi million record deal with <b>Hallwood Media<\/b>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gayle King sat down with Telisha Jones\u2014creator of the AI singer Xania Monet that&#8217;s been on the Billboard Charts<\/p>\n<p>Gayle King: They thought Xania Monet is a real person <\/p>\n<p>Telisha Jones: Xania is an extension of me<\/p>\n<p>Gayle King: But you can&#8217;t sing so Xania is not a real person <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UriKdRmSxQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/UriKdRmSxQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ahmed\/The Ears\/IG: BigBizTheGod \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf4 (@big_business_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/big_business_\/status\/1986196633789374859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  <b>Billboard<\/b> recently reported that Monet is the &#8220;first known AI artist to earn enough radio airplay to debut on a Billboard radio chart,&#8221; appearing on at least five Billboard charts since her first song release.<\/p>\n<p>Singer <b>Kehlani<\/b> spoke out against the use of AI in creative spaces in a recent TikTok video, saying &#8220;nobody will be able to justify AI to me&#8221; and &#8220;I don&#8217;t respect it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jones responded saying, &#8220;Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Technology&#8217;s evolving. Everybody has different ways of putting in work to get to where they&#8217;re at. I don&#8217;t feel that way about it. I still love Kehlani&#8217;s music. I still listen to her every day,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Jones who created the persona while teaching herself AI just four months ago admits she&#8217;s not a singer, but says the &#8220;lyrics are 100% me,&#8221; and that they come from poems she wrote based on real life experiences.<\/p>\n<p>She continues saying, &#8220;Xania is an extension of me, so I look at her as a real person,&#8221; Jones told King. <\/p>\n<p>King responded saying, &#8220;But you can\u2019t sing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/big_business_\/status\/1986196633789374859\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">source<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/131444954.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gayle King sat down with Telisha &#8220;Nikki&#8221; Jones the person behind AI artist Xania Monet who recently signed a multi million record deal with Hallwood Media. Gayle King sat down with Telisha Jones\u2014creator of the AI singer Xania Monet that&#8217;s been on the Billboard Charts Gayle King: They thought Xania Monet is a real person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-203505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}