Mick Jagger Breaks Down New Album, ‘Foreign Tongues,’ AI in Music & Rolling Stones Legacy | Billboard Cover

Categoria: Musica

Por Billboard | 16/07/2026

Billboard cover star Mick Jagger opens up about the Rolling Stones’ latest creative streak, the making of the band’s new music, and how technology continues to shape the recording process. He reflects on songwriting, working with producer Andrew Watt, revisiting songs left off earlier sessions, and why the Stones feel closer than ever to releasing music at a faster pace. He also opens up about how songs evolve in the studio, the balance between raw creativity and technical precision, and why getting the groove right still matters most. From falsetto vocals and vocal routines to the challenge of building melodies in real time, Jagger gives a rare look at the craft behind his performances. He also shares his take on AI in music, modern recording tools, touring, collaboration, and the legacy of the Rolling Stones as one of rock’s most influential bands. Mick Jagger: It’s not a new thing to be using technology in the studio. The studio is technology. If you’re clever, you can use that technology greatly to your advantage to make things go quicker, to make boring things go quicker. Joe Lynch: A Bigger Bang came out in 2005. Eleven years go by ’till there’s a covers album. Seven more years, Hackney Diamonds. Now, three years… Yeah, it’s getting closer.  Is that what you’re saying? We’re getting closer, yeah.  We’re basically, yeah, it’s like Germany doing the World Cup football. You could’ve said, “Yeah, in 2005 you did well. 2000 and…” So this was actually we could’ve put this album out last year. Oh, really? ‘Cause we finished it last year, but the record company wasn’t really ready to get into promotion mode for it. It was too quick for them to get it out in the fall. So we waited till this year. Two albums in two years then, basically. Yeah. What’s motivating this creative burst? I had a lot of songs that I’d been working on, so I was kind of up for that. That was a good alternative. I didn’t have to go, “Oh, I don’t know what we’re gonna do.” So I had a lot of songs prepared. So we decided to do the same mode of recording as we’d worked with ‘Hackney Diamond’s because that method had worked. I’m curious, so when you came back to this, how many of the songs were done? Did they just need some tinkering, or wa— Okay, so from Hackney Diamonds we had three songs we didn’t put on purposely. Because we always planned that we were gonna do an album pretty quick. So we said, “Don’t worry about these songs. Don’t cry. You’re not gonna lose them.” We knew we could go in the studio and do 10 to 12 songs. Keep watching for more!