Over the
last few years we have seen a new trend being added to the entertainment world,
especially in live show productions. I am all for new, exciting, and
entertaining things but some things need to be left alone out of respect for the
artist life and legacy. There is something just wrong with watching a hologram
of an artist. It is cool that we have the technology to do it, but it seems
wrong to be playing with the dead. A tribute show, with other artist singing
the classic hits use to be the norm for showing our respects, but now we have
hologram shows mix in with live performers. Will this become a great, good, bad
or should have never happen thing? Time will tell and for now we have to deal
with the fact that the money that will be drawn in will be great and maybe the
motive.
It has
been recently announced that they will being doing a Whitney
Houston hologram next year in 2016. Not sure how it is going to turn out
and I hope it is a success for those who will watch it, but it has been two
years in the making and I think a little too early, like a joke about death
right after someone dies; the emotions are still a little high. Especially in
this case giving her daughter just passed away this year too. Maybe they should
skip Whitney and do Luther Vandross.
There
are mix feeling about the use of holograms at music events. Everyone was over
the top excited about a Tupac hologram with Snoop Dogg at Coachella Festival
back in 2012 but fans felt the Michael
Jackson hologram at the Billboard Music Awards in 2014 was cool but a bit
creepy and I have to agree it was weird watching it. I guess certain artist are
better to watch alive than dead.
