"Artistic Integrity" was a track featured on the eponymous album from The Emperor's New Clothes, a pro-Imperial musical group known for their songs. The song "Artistic Integrity" was created as an answer to "Torch Song" and "Just Another Art Form," two songs produced by the band Deeply Religious, with whom The Emperor's New Clothes were in a dispute.
The title track of the musical group The Emperor's New Clothes' album of the same name, "Artistic Integrity," was the latest release from the pro-Imperial band at some point in time between 0 ABY and 4 ABY. As with the rest of the group's music, "Artistic Integrity" received approval from the Imperial Board of Culture, the Imperial organization responsible for reviewing and censoring media in popular culture. Written in the minga style, the song was a direct response to the songs "Torch Song" and "Just Another Art Form" by the band Deeply Religious, after those songs provoked The Emperor's New Clothes.
According to an arts writer for Galactic Weekly NewsStack—writing under the name Ars Dangor—"Artistic Integrity" was a very direct song, asserting that The Emperor's New Clothes had the right to create their own music, regardless of whether everyone enjoyed it. Deeply Religious responded to this, releasing the short track "Ooh, It Bites," which Dangor described as "nasty." Because Deeply Religious was banned by the Imperial Board of Culture, their work was not reviewed by the Board, and Dangor guessed that the conflict between the two bands would continue.
The song "Artistic Integrity" received a mention in Galaxy Guide 9: Fragments from the Rim, a 1993 supplement to Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game by West End Games, authored by Simon Smith and Eric Trautmann. The book elaborated on the song in a section called "Latest Developments: The Emperor's New Clothes versus Deeply Religious," which was presented as an in-universe report by Ars Dangor.