Well this was bound to happen.
Today marks the 10-year anniversary of Left Eye’s tragic untimely death in a car accident in Honduras. TMZ reports today that following the smash success of Hologram Tupac at this year’s Coachella Festival, T-Boz and Chili have announced plans to resurrect Left Eye for a hologram tour this summer.
Five cities have been booked so far, and more are in the works.
That’s right. We now live in a world in which the living and the dead go on tour together. Though Dr. Dre quickly smashed rumors that he and Snoop Dogg intended to take Tupac out on tour this summer, Jackie Jackson said last week that hologram Michael may very well accompany the other Jackson brothers on a Jackson 5 tour next year. (This year’s Unity Tour won’t include the hologram.)
At worst the the hologram tour seems callously opportunistic: it’s hard to imagine something more cold-blooded that using your fallen comrade’s image to make a buck. At the same time, maybe there’s something cathartic and beautifully nostalgic about it—a chance to “get the band back together,” as Dan Akyroyd said in “The Blues Brothers,” that artists and fans alike would never have without the hologram.
Whatever it is, I think we can all agree it’s goddam strange.
Check here for a great TLC retrospective that doesn’t involve exhuming the dead.
April 26, 2012 at 12:45 am, Adam Gimbel said:
That is SO last Sunday night. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150707002007198&set=oa.10150721975848773&type=1&theater
April 26, 2012 at 5:04 pm, Sam Avishay said:
You're forgetting that TLC had a show with a projection of left-eye in 2005.
April 27, 2012 at 6:24 am, Dave Mills said:
The floodgates are opening!
May 04, 2012 at 10:44 pm, Henry Peck said:
I ain't too proud to beg.
May 04, 2012 at 10:44 pm, Henry Peck said:
I ain't too proud to beg.
May 14, 2012 at 12:35 pm, Freddie Mercury gets the hologram treatment | Death and Taxes said:
[...] issue of holographic resurrection looking opportunistic, even disrespectful. News that TLC would resurrect Left Eye for a hologram tour after Tupac’s success at Coachella was met with a heavy dose of [...]
May 17, 2012 at 4:38 pm, Jesus O. Martinez said:
Wow! just found out Donna Summers is dead at age 63. REST IN PEACE DONNA WE WILL ALL MISS YOU!
November 05, 2012 at 6:30 pm, TLC confirm plans for first new album since ’3D’ | Death and Taxes said:
[...] be executive producing. We’ve also been hearing dirty rumors that the group is planning to incorporate Left Eye via hologram in their tour, but we’re going to ignore that for now, and just focus on the fact that TLC is [...]