Supporting Evidence:

1. The album Time by ELO. A futuristic sci-fi concept album which tells the (true?) story of a hero (Jeff Lynne) who is taken to the future (2095) but longs to return to his ancient lover– an ethereal vixen who remains trapped in the golden age of 1981 (”Remember the good old nineteen-eighties / when things were so uncomplicated!”). In the future, he is provided with a robot that appears identical to his former lover in many ways, but ultimately cannot provide the same lovin’, as she is in fact a soulless IBM. See also: Wong Kar Wai’s 2046.

2. The Carpenters’ 1977 cover of Canadian prog-rock group Klaatu’s desperate cry for interplanetary contact, “Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft” (see video above). The video says it all: Karen, floating through space on a grand piano, pleads the aliens to take her. If 160 musicians and the soul-piercing gaze of Ms. Carpenter can’t cut through the depths of space to reach our anti-adversary interstellar buddies– then what can?

3. Karen’s highly mysterious death in 1983 from “irregular heartbeats” at the age of only 32. How a young, vibrant star like Karen could have died so unexpectedly remains one of pop culture’s great mysteries, along with the still unresolved murder cases of Biggie and 2Pac. How come they never found the body? It’s because she’s still up there somewhere, on the spaceship ELO. She’s waiting for Jeff Lynne to meet up with her in the year 2095, where he’ll unfortunately mistake her for a robot, and set forth a tragic 4th dimensional feedback loop that holds the potential to obliterate the Universe. See also: Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales.

Our only hope for salvation is for Jeff Lynne to accidentally impregnate the robot, and allow the foetus to come to fruition (whether that will happen depends upon the cryptic, also unsolved meaning of ELO’s “Livin’ Thing“), creating a Star-Child that, according to Mayan calendar prophecies, will save humanity.

See Also:
+ Karen Carpenter’s House
+ Superstar