Name: Miguel on releasing first studio album in nearly a decade
Uploaded: 2025-11-18T23:52:26.482Z
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Description: Miguel, Grammy Award winner and NYU Steinhardt scholar-in-residence, says social media is the biggest blessing for artists and creators across all mediums.

Miguel, Grammy Award winner and NYU Steinhardt scholar-in-residence, says social media is the biggest blessing for artists and creators across all mediums.

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Miguel, the Grammy-winning artist, spoke about releasing his first studio album in nearly ten years and his current role as a teaching resident at New York University. He highlighted how the music industry has dramatically changed, with technology and social media democratizing access for independent artists and enabling them to reach audiences without traditional corporate backing.

Miguel also discussed the importance of artists leveraging their unique perspectives and communities, both in their creative work and in driving industry change. He addressed the growing influence of artificial intelligence in the arts, noting both innovative uses and concerns about its current focus, and emphasized the need for technology to be harnessed for broader societal benefit.

Miguel on releasing first studio album in nearly a decade

I mean, when I heard you were teaching a class at NYU, I thought this was perfect. Because I was thinking about when you came out, 2012-ish, 2013-ish, with the Dorn. And the music industry was always going through a big transition. But since then, it's been completely turned up on its head. And I am curious as to what the students ask you about the music industry, or at least what they want to know about how they can be in the music industry. Yeah, the course that we designed for my residency at NYU is actually more about how artists across all mediums can be effective in this paradigm. So I get to answer questions about the music industry, as well as questions about the film and TV industry across the fine art. I think it's really keying in on how important leverage is to really making any kind of change. I'm curious, then. I feel like in the old days, at least when I was younger, artists of all types, you pretty much had to go through these big corporations to be heard or be seen. And that's changed a lot. Obviously, the internet has democratized things a lot. So you have people that have no ties to big business that can become big artists. Exactly. I think that's where the key is for all artists across anything. And I think we're seeing so much success come from people in their small niche that there's plenty to learn from if you just pick up your phone. The truth is that there's a lot of antiquated systems that need updating, need upgrading. And we have the power, and we have the ability to leverage our audiences to make the systems work in our favor. Well, talk to us about the influence of social media and how that can be used as a tool. Because I'm in my 30s. I'm not exactly in high school. But even through TikTok, I feel like I've been introduced to a lot of new artists, a lot of new songs that I might not have found otherwise. Valid, super valid. This is the biggest blessing, I think, for artists, for creators across all mediums, like we're saying. How you can do that is really about you figuring out what it is about your point of view, what it is about your interests that are uniquely yours. And I think repeating, rinsing and repeating. But I'm not a social media expert. That's not my thing at all. What I want to key in on in this course at NYU is how important community is and how important point of view is, how important really speaking about what we're seeing in the world, whatever it is that's important to each and every artist. That's what I think keeps and honors the importance of art. Art has the power to bring people together through emotionality and help us see past the differences that we use to kind of are used to divide us. And I think that's where, if we look at history, we can use it to our advantage to really come together through art so as to change the systems in our favor. Well, I'm really curious to hear your opinions on the influence that AI has had when it comes to the music industry, when it comes to art. Because so far from what I've seen, there's a really passionate pushback against using AI to make art. But I wonder if you see any good that can come from that. There's some technology has always been a part of creativity. I think as a human race, we are always looking for ways to optimize our time, make things easier, more efficient. Some things have shown us the value of not taking the quick and easy route. But I think we'll always be using technology with art as we progress as a race. There are several projects where I think AI is used in a really interesting way. I was talking with one of my best friends earlier today about how AI is being used in choreography or with a choreographer and how they're using it to inform it. And it's beautiful. It's a modern art performance where she's playing off of AI. Really interesting ways to do this. The interesting part to me is that we're not using AI to solve bigger problems. We're using AI to figure out how to make money, as opposed to solve world hunger, or to figure out how we can make everybody play together in a better way, to stop catastrophes, and to stop wars and people being taken advantage of. That's what I think is important. And in the course, the course is called Speaking Chaos to Power, there's a little bit about how AI can be used to leverage community, again, to make the change that we want.

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