Jeff really is a time-traveller, change my mind
Aug 3, 2020 10:08:03 GMT
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Post by Grroosss on Aug 3, 2020 10:08:03 GMT
His infatuation with spaceships, the ever-present sunglasses, and the fact that he still looks practically the same as he did in the 70s have lent themselves to plenty of jokes about Jeff being an alien or a time-traveller. It's still mostly a joke to me... But seriously, there's some things that have been just too prophetic to easily explain otherwise...
Yours Truly, 2095 refers to an IBM who's also a telephone, and now we have Siri (okay, maybe Siri doesn't fully qualify as a robot girlfriend, but we haven't reached 2095 yet!), and the Time album in general - a penny in your pocket won't get you very far anymore, the good old 1980s really were so uncomplicated, Here Is the News is quite evocative of the news cycle these days - honestly, the album concept itself is a dead giveaway.
Do Ya includes the line "Look out baby, there's a plane a-comin" on The Move's version, and was released on A New World Record on 9/11 in 1976 (at least for the USA).
Time After Time has that nuclear explosion at the end, and it came a mere few years before the Chernobyl accident. "One day they will know"...
There's even evidence as far back as his Idle Race days, with the lyrics of Girl at the Window mentioning the four Beatles and "free as a bird", foreshadowing his work on Anthology.
From Out of Nowhere, Jeff said, was intended to spread optimism; "Everybody's got to have a bit of hope"... he must've known that we could all use a bit of hope during the coming year.
My most recent speculation, the FOON tour - when it was announced, it seemed strange to wait nearly a year to tour in support of the new album, but perhaps Jeff had at some point time-travelled to the beginning of 2020 and knew about COVID, and predicted that it would have been over by September in time for the tour. Understandably he would've got himself out of 2020 as fast as possible, and so he hadn't stuck around long enough to know that this wouldn't be the case and the tour would be cancelled anyway.
Discussing with my sis, I asked, "But if Jeff is a time-traveller, why the heck would he choose to stay in the present day?" To which she responded, "Because he knows the world needs him." Indeed.
Well, what do you think - just uncanny coincidence, or is it something more? Feel free to add any other theories/connections that you discover!
Yours Truly, 2095 refers to an IBM who's also a telephone, and now we have Siri (okay, maybe Siri doesn't fully qualify as a robot girlfriend, but we haven't reached 2095 yet!), and the Time album in general - a penny in your pocket won't get you very far anymore, the good old 1980s really were so uncomplicated, Here Is the News is quite evocative of the news cycle these days - honestly, the album concept itself is a dead giveaway.
Do Ya includes the line "Look out baby, there's a plane a-comin" on The Move's version, and was released on A New World Record on 9/11 in 1976 (at least for the USA).
Time After Time has that nuclear explosion at the end, and it came a mere few years before the Chernobyl accident. "One day they will know"...
There's even evidence as far back as his Idle Race days, with the lyrics of Girl at the Window mentioning the four Beatles and "free as a bird", foreshadowing his work on Anthology.
From Out of Nowhere, Jeff said, was intended to spread optimism; "Everybody's got to have a bit of hope"... he must've known that we could all use a bit of hope during the coming year.
My most recent speculation, the FOON tour - when it was announced, it seemed strange to wait nearly a year to tour in support of the new album, but perhaps Jeff had at some point time-travelled to the beginning of 2020 and knew about COVID, and predicted that it would have been over by September in time for the tour. Understandably he would've got himself out of 2020 as fast as possible, and so he hadn't stuck around long enough to know that this wouldn't be the case and the tour would be cancelled anyway.
Discussing with my sis, I asked, "But if Jeff is a time-traveller, why the heck would he choose to stay in the present day?" To which she responded, "Because he knows the world needs him." Indeed.
Well, what do you think - just uncanny coincidence, or is it something more? Feel free to add any other theories/connections that you discover!