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« on: September 30, 2011, 04:23:52 PM »
I'm already looking at doing my next one and I LOVE that this is in his own writing... to get a confirmation, does anyone know if this looks like his usual writing? Like someone didn't just write it out. Aside from his signature of course which is pretty spot on
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« on: September 30, 2011, 12:38:20 AM »
My first tattoo : 
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« on: December 21, 2010, 07:58:11 PM »
Hey everyone!
So I went to see Tangled and there was an interesting line. It went:
"I love you."
"I love you more."
"I love you most."
I thought of Michael instantly <3
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« on: December 16, 2010, 07:20:06 PM »
We can't really say it cant be him. If you were to look at a young picture of Michael, then a recent one, you probably wouldn't think its the same person
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« on: December 11, 2010, 12:36:04 AM »
I've pre-ordered 3 copies!
I also will purchase more copies.. I want him to be #1 in the US and Canada so badly!
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« on: December 08, 2010, 01:49:02 AM »
I am LOVING Monster! The bridge is just..wow. His voice is angelic!
I'm just wondering the motivation behind posting the entire album on the official site? I have a fear it's going to take a good chunk out of sales. EVERYONE..HE NEEDS TO BE #1 ON THE CHARTS DAMNIT!
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« on: December 06, 2010, 03:01:16 PM »
Well this is depressing... Album review: Michael Jackson - 'Michael' (Epic)
Not as terrible as you may think. I mean, we're not saying it's good, but...
When Will.I.Am of all people is denouncing your project on the grounds of taste and authenticity, you know you’re on shaky ground. When your lead single is a duet with Akon, you should probably just pack up and go home. Michael Jackson couldn’t do any of these things of course, because Michael Jackson is dead.
When you go in to listen to the posthumous album of unreleased Michael Jackson songs you’re met with a 10-page document that painstakingly details the narrative of how this record is authentic, genuine and tastefully in tune with the album Jackson was already planning. But really. Nobody treated this poor, desperate fucker with any respect in the later years of his life. Why would that vultures act any different now he’s not even around to have a say?
Then you actually hear the thing and you’re met with a bizarre rush of reassurance in human decency. Oh, it isn’t really very good, don’t be under illusions of that. But compared with the unnecessary, inauthentic and insulting mess it could have been, and judged against the level at which, say, Tupac Shakur and Freddie Mercury’s graves have been danced on, ‘Michael’ can actually be considered something of a win.
The songs here are actually complete songs. Not discarded offcuts recklessly soldered together with a few guest raps to cover the joins, but full compositions sung all the way through by Actual Michael Jackson. And evidently, his voice had endured. Sure, the vocals are treated to (excuse the phrasing) within an inch of their lives. But the gleaming falsetto, the rock howl and propulsive beatboxing are all, to different extents, intact.
Thirdly, the robotic R&B that defines ‘Michael’ is probably, more or less like what Michael Jackson would have been wanting to do in 2010. Amazing as it would have been to hear him toe-to-toe with Kanye, Minaj and Rihanna, it was never going to happen because he’s chosen Will.I.Am and Akon. And most of these songs are up to his more latterday standard. Just so, it’s a myth that he ever completely lost it: even ‘Invincible’ had ‘You Rock My World’ and ‘Butterflies’ on it.
And even Akon can’t completely ruin the single ‘Hold My Hand’, a tender mid-paced love song in the vein of ‘Remember The Time’, while ‘Best Of Joy’ and ‘(I Like) The Way You Love Me’ cover similar classy/boring mid-tempo R&B territory... ‘Monster’ revisits ‘Smooth Criminal’ territory only to be ruined by an inappropriate rap from 50 Cent, while the worst thing you can say about ‘Hollywood Tonight’ is that its catchy signature gets annoying after a while.
‘Keep Your Head Up’ is sentimental mush that makes up for its paucity of tune by piling on more and more strings and gospel, and ‘Breaking News’ is appalling, Jackson at his most ‘poor me’ unfortunate over a mess of confused beats.
But then something remarkable happens. You get to track nine, ‘Behind The Mask’ and it’s an absolute revelation, a swirl of psychedelic, orchestra-twinged R&B. Jackson howls a solid-gold melody at his fearsome best, and blippy production and robotic backing vocals dancing behind it. It could sit quite happily on ‘Dangerous’. It is actually brilliant. And then there’s ‘Much Too Soon’, a delicate, pared-down ballad that dates back to the ‘Thriller’ era, but gets you in the emotion-centres in the way that Jackson uniquely could.
On the balancing strength of those two songs, ‘Michael’ manages to dodge the bullet enough to be kind of enjoyable. But it’s worth remembering that both songs date back to the 1980s. It’s also worth remembering that this is the first in a reported 10-album deal over the next seven years. And if this decent-enough album is the best of the bunch, things are going to get ugly from here on in. Michael has his epitaph now. Tear up that contract, The Jackson Estate. Tear it up now. You are not allowed to view links.
Register or LoginAnd that's not the only bad review..there are many :cry:
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« on: November 30, 2010, 02:37:22 AM »
He's hardly in this song... I hope it's not on the album
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« on: November 30, 2010, 02:01:48 AM »
I get the feeling he's overly self-confident lately Me too.. it's almost like.. now that the real threat is 'gone'..people will notice him... HA!
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« on: November 30, 2010, 01:33:19 AM »
Full of yourself much, Usher?
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« on: November 26, 2010, 01:09:15 PM »
^ that would probably help hahaha 
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« on: November 26, 2010, 12:27:30 PM »
I've been having so much fun playing this!! I'm definitely not the best dancer in the world but my sister and I have lots of fun playing! I got 4/5 stars on the Billie Jean song and keep trying to top it, and let me tell you, this game is quite the workout
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« on: November 22, 2010, 11:49:22 PM »
I haven't heard it at all.
I desperately hope his album goes to #1. He deserves it
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« on: November 22, 2010, 10:42:57 PM »
I really don't get it at all. It's a really good song. I play it at work and a co-worker of mine who really doesn't like Michael..well I caught her singing along to it! If she likes it.. I don't see how people seem to not be taking to it
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« on: November 22, 2010, 10:14:59 PM »
This is all hurting my heart. First, Hold My Hand isn't performing well on the charts at all..and now this critique of Vision. Poor Michael. It is impossible to watch his collection of videos without feeling pity at this visual evidence of his self-destruction. In four and half hours of extravagant (over-) productions, you see the handsome, smiling young black entertainer of 1979’s ‘Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough’ gradually mutate into the stick thin, white scarecrow figure of 2001’s ‘You Rock My World’, his final official appearance. With sawed off button nose and painted on lips, by the end he barely looks human, and it seems peculiar the way the typically heavyweight cast (including Chris Rock and Marlon Brando) casually interact with a zombie in their midst.
The title ‘Michael Jackson’s Vision’, and the assertion that these aren’t promo videos but “short films”, is typical of the grandiosity attached to every Jackson project. The hits of the eighties retain nostalgic charm, but apart from the genuinely ground breaking and still impressive ‘Thriller’ few really stand the test of the time. The overlong shorts (including Martin Scorcese’s woeful Bad) are narratively baffling to a point that would be comical if they weren’t so bloated with an air of preening narcissism in which fawning guest stars gasp at Jackson’s mystical super-powers. They are further burdened by a kind of egotism of budgetary excess. As Jackson’s star wanes in the 90s, the videos keep getting bigger and madder, more bucks for less bangs Found here: You are not allowed to view links.
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