Why is Elton John so pompous?

‘All my life,’ Elton John told the Twittersphere last Friday afternoon, ‘I’ve tried to use music to bring people together. Yet it saddens me to see how misinformation is now being used to divide our world. I’ve decided to no longer use Twitter, given their recent change in policy which will allow misinformation to flourish unchecked.’ 

The first things to grab your attention about this utterance are its strangely stilted syntax and grim grammar. That ‘yet’ is an attempt to cover a leap of a non-sequitur. ‘I’ve decided to no longer use Twitter’ feels like an auto-translation from a tongue where subject and object come the other way around, and verbs flit about like birds. I did wonder if Elton had tasked ChatGPT with coming up with this statement – he is famous for delegating his lyric writing, after all – but it would’ve done a better job. 

When you’ve successfully parsed these three sentences you’re left with another impression.