“When I read “Human Nature,” I knew that the brain that wrote these characters is fucked up for good, but in a good way. Not a very boring, normal guy trying to be cool.” What could have easily ...

"Not quite human. Not quite machine. The Velvet Sundown lives somewhere in between," the band's creator wrote in their official bio Michael Nied has been a digital news editor with PEOPLE since 2025.

It's a case like Milli Vanilli's lip-syncing scandal of the 90s made for the artificial intelligence era. The Velvet Sundown is a new band that exploded in popularity in June. The group has quickly ...