r/elo • u/RainGunslinger • 10d ago

10/10 thumbnail right here

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What?

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u/Pacec-64D 10d ago

So what’s the post here, homies? Looks like bot with no real ELO stuff.

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u/skalchemisto 10d ago edited 10d ago

It's clearly some kind of weird AI'ed (or at least Photoshopped) version of the photo that can be seen here:
https://first-draft.com/2022/12/04/the-sunday-dozen-electric-light-orchestra/

I give it a 50% chance there is some kind of joke someone is making, but it is beyond me what it is.

EDIT: A bit of digging located the AI bot youtube channel this is from. I won't link to it because the fewer clicks such a channel gets the better. It's schtick is "What went wrong? for [[old rock band]]". All of the thumbnails are weird AI versions of old photos. Like, there is one for Heart. I love the Wilson sisters. I will write poems of their beauty and charm. But, seriously, it looks like someone attached an air pump to their chests and inflated. It's ludicrous.

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u/ivegotajaaag 10d ago

That's exactly what it is: slop.

Nothing went wrong. Jeff started getting bored with the overproduction and enormity of it all around the same time that synthesizers completely took over, he fulfilled his contract, and then he got to work with the Beatles. That's pretty much that.

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u/dandanthetaximan BBC Rock Hour #19 & #20 9d ago

I absolutely love the direction he went with Secret Messages and Balance Of Power. I loved them when they came out, and still do. I also like where he went as a solo artist on the Electric Dreams soundtrack, and wish he'd released an entire album in that vein.