There’s a line from somewhere that says something like: along the way, scientists stopped thinking about what they should do and only thought about what they could do. I think it’s from Jurassic Park… or maybe the Bible. I get the two confused a lot. But my point is, I think we could say the same about green screen techs and a lot of music producers.

Now dropping in vocals from someone who wasn’t there is nothing new. Ever since multi-track recording was invented, it’s been done, and it’s been done with all sorts of dead people before. But in this case, I really feel like the producers are showing their hand. Or worse, this is like having some friends over for a game of poker, bragging about your new deck of marked cards, immediately dealing a hand, and wondering why everyone folds right away.

You just showed your audience you can fake anything, so why should anyone believe anything you do is real?

The only way I would approve of this is if they made Elvis into a Zombie and he ate Martina’s brain at the end of the song. Now that would be Holiday treat.