Ali Azmat's new single 'Yahan Wahan' comes with AI-generated dystopian video

Junoon frontman Ali Azmat released a new single Yahan Wahan, presenting a politically charged track and a dystopian music video made with a mix of human direction and generative AI tools. The roughly five-and-a-half-minute video opens with Azmat waking up inside a heavily secured facility, where he is forcibly injected with unknown substances before overpowering his captors and escaping.   As Azmat makes his way through the facility, he encounters human clones suspended in glass tanks and rows of people fitted with virtual reality headsets marked with the word "obey" — imagery built around themes of mass surveillance and brainwashing. Once outside, he finds a landscape of rubble and ruin, picks up an electric guitar and begins performing as glowing, otherworldly figures gather around him. The video then shifts into a montage of global suffering: poverty, food insecurity, and climate-driven destruction. Azmat frames the song as a call to dismantle these systems, urging listeners to "break" their shackles and "gather all your might" so that "lives will change for the better."         View this post on Instagram                       The video's use of generative AI stands out as one of its most talked-about elements. With AI-generated visuals increasingly common across music, advertising and film, their use remains contentious among artists, particularly over questions of authorship, consent and whether existing creative work was used to train the systems involved. Yahan Wahan folds the debate into broader social and political critique running through the song. The single marked the latest turn for a musician whose career has swung between commercial rock hits and pointed commentary. Azmat rose to prominence as Junoon's vocalist, fronting some of the band's biggest tracks including Jazba-e-Junoon, the closing song on their 1996 album Inquilaab. Composed by Sabir Zafar and guitarist Salman Ahmad, the track became Junoon's first major hit and helped propel the album up local charts. Three decades on, Yahan Wahan kept the same instinct for pointed commentary.