Decades ago, there was a commercial that Generation X will remember as the Memorex minutes. Was it live, or was it, well...Memorex? The truth is that music lovers everywhere knew that it wasn't tape. If we saw it live, we remembered it. What we heard on Memorex is now better heard, ironically, on vinyl.
This relates to Elton John and many other iconic performers because of AI-driven content. You see, John, that living legend from many decades ago, will be performing in Las Vegas in late 2027, but it won't really be him. Instead, it will be Prince's worst nightmare.
The Purple One never wanted to be represented as a hologram, but Elton John seems just fine with that. According to The Sun, the icon has signed a deal that will allow his image to be used at a Las Vegas residency and in other ways well beyond the years he has left this Earth and is singing in whatever realm you, dear reader, believe in.
Elton John allows his hologram to take money at a Las Vegas residency
While no firm dates are yet known for John's image to perform his tracks, fans can get ready to purchase tickets at the Hard Rock Cafe, where the ghostly figure of a hopefully very alive Elton John will be used.
ABBA has done the same thing, and so will KISS. The bands make money by not showing up. Sure, their past gems are used to let the crowd boogie to the music of excellence, but let's hope tickets aren't that much. What fans are ultimately paying for is the right to hear music one could hear at home while watching a shadowy figure do the hard work that should be performed by a real human being.
Does Elton John not already have enough money? He's worth hundreds of millions of American dollars, and unless he is trying to buy Elon Musk out of everything he owns, John should be more than satisfied with his living conditions.
He also, clearly, has a right to say in how his music is used, but eventually fans might figure out that paying their hard-earned money to go see something they might see at a Ripley's Believe It or Not museum isn't worth it. Thankfully, John's music has been, but the whole hologram-driven enterprise feels cheap. At least, Prince wouldn't be happy with everything that is sadly beginning to occur.
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