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WTF? THE PRINCE SYMBOL IS GONE? :shock:
Anna: I understand what you're saying, and I have no doubt that MJ used stunts and body doubles at times, but MJsforever said something very different from what you said: "I believe we have not seen the real Mike since the Dangerous era. I think at that point he was a brand and they found someone else to play the part of "Michael" I think that person could have passed on 6/25/09 and now the "real" Mike is back." That's what I was addressing.
Quote from: "MJFAN7"WTF? THE PRINCE SYMBOL IS GONE? :shock: It depends at which image you are looking at. Here, the symbol is gone:You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginHere, the symbol is included:You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginThese may be just different versions of the image - Prince is the right's owner to the symbol and there may have been a time gap of consent for different image versions. Alternative: somebody's checking for our attention to details (and some graphic designer at Sony might have not paid as much attention as we do). The fact that the symbol of love IS included in the artwork does clarify once and for all that the stories about a competing and disagreeing relationship between the two artists was just another made-up media illusion.Btw, there are 7 bubbles of which one holds 3 little ones in addition. PPB. What a nice hommage.
The new album will be out on Dec 14 and is out for pre-order already:You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login QuoteMUCH ANTICIPATED NEW ALBUM FROM THE KING OF POPMICHAEL TO BE RELEASED DECEMBER 14
MUCH ANTICIPATED NEW ALBUM FROM THE KING OF POPMICHAEL TO BE RELEASED DECEMBER 14
Mit Hochspannung erwartetes neues Album vom King Of PopMICHAEL wird am 10. Dezember veröffentlichtWelturaufführung eines exklusiven Trailers und Songs auf You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginNew York, NY – Das mit Hochspannung erwartete neue Album mit kürzlich fertiggestellten Aufnahmen von Michael Jackson trägt den Titel „MICHAEL“ und wird am 10. Dezember von Sony Music in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Michael Jackson Estate veröffentlicht. Ein exklusiver Teaser für das Projekt wird morgen auf You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login zu sehen sein. Am Montag, den 8. November, findet die Weltpremiere des neuen Songs „Breaking News“ statt, der eine Woche lang auf der Webseite als Stream verfügbar ist.Bis zuletzt plante Michael Jackson ein neues Album zu veröffentlichen. Ohne dass viele seiner Fans auf der ganzen Welt es mitbekamen, schrieb Michael Jackson in den letzten zwei Jahren unaufhörlich weiter Lieder und nahm diese auf. Dies geschah mit einer kleinen, handverlesenen Gruppe von Mitarbeitern an verschiedensten Orten, vom Haus eines Freundes in New Jersey bis hin zu Studios in Las Vegas und Los Angeles. Es lassen sich einzigartige Geschichten zu den Songs erzählen, die auf dem Album „MICHAEL“ zu finden sind. Fans erhalten dadurch einen überwältigenden Einblick in die Arbeitsweise des Künstlers und die Chance, jene Lieder zu hören, an denen er bis kurz vor seinem Tod arbeitete und die er bis zuletzt verwirklichen wollte.„Breaking News“ ist ein bisher ungehörter Song von Michael Jackson auf dem neuen Album, der 2007 in New Jersey aufgenommen und vor kurzem fertiggestellt wurde. Fans können das neue Album in den nächsten 24 Stunden auf You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login vorbestellen.Das angehängte Albumcover von „MICHAEL“ wurde 2009 vom Maler Kadir Nelson kreiert. In dem Ölgemälde nimmt uns Kadir - der für das Erzählen von Geschichten durch seine Bilder bekannt ist - mit auf eine Reise durch einige wichtige Stationen im Leben des Michael Jackson.Noch in diesem Monat wird die weltweite Veröffentlichung der ersten offiziellen Single des Albums „MICHAEL“ folgen.You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login
Quote from: "Grace"Quote from: "MJFAN7"WTF? THE PRINCE SYMBOL IS GONE? :shock: It depends at which image you are looking at. Here, the symbol is gone:You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginHere, the symbol is included:You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginThese may be just different versions of the image - Prince is the right's owner to the symbol and there may have been a time gap of consent for different image versions. Alternative: somebody's checking for our attention to details (and some graphic designer at Sony might have not paid as much attention as we do). The fact that the symbol of love IS included in the artwork does clarify once and for all that the stories about a competing and disagreeing relationship between the two artists was just another made-up media illusion....But if the symbol dissappeared in another version, then it was all a photoshop by who?again to fool people?
Quote from: "MJFAN7"WTF? THE PRINCE SYMBOL IS GONE? :shock: It depends at which image you are looking at. Here, the symbol is gone:You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginHere, the symbol is included:You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginThese may be just different versions of the image - Prince is the right's owner to the symbol and there may have been a time gap of consent for different image versions. Alternative: somebody's checking for our attention to details (and some graphic designer at Sony might have not paid as much attention as we do). The fact that the symbol of love IS included in the artwork does clarify once and for all that the stories about a competing and disagreeing relationship between the two artists was just another made-up media illusion....
"truthprevails" wrote:Of course we all make assumptions all the time, and perception plays a big role in our thinking, for ALL of us and for our entire lives. If it weren't for your specific experience, would you think, upon seeing a white woman together with a dark-skinned person, that they must be related by blood? Probably not... That doesn't make people automatically bad/racist. It simply means that we're not used to seeing certain things, and whenever we're faced with something that's not the norm, we're a little taken aback. You say, however, some things that I find interesting and highly debatable.
"Im_convincedmjalive" wrote:Those types of perceptions and assumptions is what I am referring to when I say most people from what I have observed do NOT see Mike as a black man. When I say a black man I am NOT only referring to skin tone. There is a way that a black man in spirit carries himself.
"truthprevails" wrote:WOW! So "black people" are not like "white people", right? They're... what? How are they different? They're more religious, less smart, they talk and walk a certain way, they...?! These are stereotypes! And I believe that many black people have fought long and hard to overcome such stereotypes, and to be seen as peers to white people. We don't see Mike as a purely black man because he didn't see himself that way!! He was a universalist, and moreover said - for instance - that he didn't want to be branded "a black singer."[/u] He wanted to transcend limits of any kind.
"truthprevails" wrote:Again, could you tell me the difference between a white man and a black man? Is Travis Payne a "black man"? Is Obama a "black man"? How about MLK or Malcolm X? Were they "black men" in spirit?
"Im_convincedmjalive" wrote:"How many years have we seen an image of Mike being white?A long freakin time. Long enough to burn an image into our brains.This is why I believe the black skin toned Mike is being shown to remind the world Mike is a BROTHA all the way, down to his soul."
R29. MJ on Police Brutality[youtube:1b3xsxql]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO7wOwdTwB8[/youtube:1b3xsxql]The redirect for this day was another YouTube video; it was a segment on police brutality, from the 60 minutes interview in December of 2003. It is of course very sad the way that MJ was treated; but the truly heroic part, was his humble and mild response—you have to watch it, if you haven’t already.Later in this same interview (part 3), Michael said: “I don’t want to say too much … there’s a conspiracy, yeah; I don’t want to say too much. I’m done.” [youtube:1b3xsxql]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK4B062DrBU&feature=related[/youtube:1b3xsxql] You see, he didn’t want to say much, because he knew the danger involved in exposing the NWO powers. And no, he was not talking about some small-town conspiracy; he was talking “media” conspiracy, and “manipulating history books”, etc. Part 1[youtube:1b3xsxql]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqtW9y_2aZ0&feature=related[/youtube:1b3xsxql]Part 2[youtube:1b3xsxql]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsu-g5bn0kg&feature=related[/youtube:1b3xsxql]
There are nine pages to this thread (that I haven't read )so bare with me if the point has been raised already. What's up with the old photos for the cover? We just saw TII and the O2 press conference last year. Why not use the most recent images that the public has seen of MJ instead of these? These photos of MJ are decades old. Does anyone have any guesses or speculation on why this was done?
Hey, how about those pics of Mike from when he was a kid and into the 1980s, when his skin was still dark? How about Thriller? How about the fact that we know his family, and all his siblings? Do you really think we forgot he's African American?! Come on now...
As for Michael being a BROTHA "down to his soul": I don't believe souls have anything to do with human labels... I believe they're outside and beyond labels and categories. That's why they're beautiful and pure! Michael had a "brotha" side to him (using the term in the way I suspect you mean it), but he had many sides - as do ALL of us. To define a person strictly by their color is to make them a huge disfavor, not a favor... And I'm sure Michael, of all people, would not have wanted that.