Hollywood Nights? The Official Music Video

[hesouttamylife]

I prefer Hold My Hand too.  At least there's some Michael in it.

[MashMike]

Agree, this was somehow tacky, i prefer Michael's videos, i mean the short films where he himself participates in them, they're all masterpieces, i neither liked this video nor disliked, 50-50.It was not  MJ's style

[Grace]

For me, it's the proof that he's really dead.
Like the trial.

We've had that before.

It is one more time sharpening our senses for the "making of" and different versions of a song.
This is new and it's quite nice: we never had the choice before, right?

Somebody's giving us a zip of this and a zip of that and is watching our reaction (almost certain about that). It's like asking "Do you want your coffee with cream or with milk?" while offering both.

This has become a huge overall theme - getting us involved directly and handing the baton over to us.
Never been so close yet so distant, never been so permanently around, right?

Watch his moves, yet it's the girl.

Never done before, right. ;)

Keep the faith.

Don't let go of my hand no matter what happens.

[steffymjlove]

Here you can all thank me later lol

[Cameron]

Unlike others, I'll have to say something very, very negative. I have to get this off my chest.

I hate and despise the video. It's worse than Hold My Hand. I prefer the song's production on the album, and the video is anything but nice to look at. Watching it actually made me livid, I can't even find words and I can't really explain what I feel. I usually don't get offensive, but the girl they casted isn't beautiful to me and she has a masculine body, I hate the "storyline" and I freaking despise the Walk of Fame part. That was so freaking sentimental and has left me with the uttermost disgust, I can't even explain it. If Michael is dead, do you think it's appropriate to have cheeply acted crying parts in a music video to accompany Michael's great music, music that has nothing to do with his death whatsoever? I don't know what they're trying to do, but we know people love "dead" people and the tragedy of it, and in my opinion, this is why they keep going on about it. People are into sentimentality, but this is an insult to Michael's legacy. What I'm trying to say is not that I don't want to be confronted with Michael being dead if he is, but that has no place in a music video, as if a legend needed to be dead in order to be loveable.

Let's just all sit down and imagine for a moment that Michael is actually dead, they're coming out with crappy "music videos" to great songs by Michael that do not need any visual support. Even if you like the video, you will have to agree that it's nothing compared to what Michael used to create. He always created the most amazing works of art with his music videos or short films, and I tend to believe that this is not something Michael would want, nor something that he is behind in any way. This music doesn't need a music video, especially not a crappy one, just to be on television. How many more people are going to purchase the song because they got to see this video on TV? This is not helping Michael's legacy in the slightest. It's just making me angry.

Does anybody understand me?  :cry:

" Even if you like the video, you will have to agree that it's nothing compared to what Michael used to create. He always created the most amazing works of art with his music videos or short films, and I tend to believe that this is not something Michael would want, nor something that he is behind in any way. "

:) It's your opinion, I accept it, and we need different opinions about this hoax. :)
But the text I pasted just confirm what I said in this thread: you're focused on the past and only on the classical "music video" thing.
Like said in this thread, we have to see the future.
Moreover, this is not a music video for me, Michael didn't do it for this purpose, like he did Thriller or You Rock My Wolrd for exemple. He did it for something else, and for showing us clues.
( that's what I tried to explain in this thread).

Haha, and by the way, in you tube more people like the video than people dislike.
So I don't know what MJ is triying to do, but it's working ? :)

[MissG]

I watched again the video! It fits perfectly as a part of a movie, like in Flash Dance. May be a movie will come after all telling the story of the dancer.
MJ song "they don´t care about us" last rehersal was the video shown over and over in the news after his passing. They don´t care about us...the dancers.

[bec]

I wonder if perhaps these videos should be viewed in order of release, 'to be continued' style.

One More Chance
[youtube:1rrldpik]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-owpIWQMd80[/youtube:1rrldpik]
Hold My Hand
[youtube:1rrldpik]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oCCnxBos10[/youtube:1rrldpik]
Hollywood Tonight
[youtube:1rrldpik]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjGtTUfPcI4[/youtube:1rrldpik]

Upon viewing... this looks like a story... anyone else see it differently when viewed one after the other?

[MissG]

Can be, Bec. Another video is about to come, Behind the mask. Would be interesting to see the all 4 in a row complementing each other.

[bec]

that's totally it, this is a story!

The WAITRESS!

The dancer works as a waitress? In a restaurant??

[MissG]

Yes! The restaurant! a Love story?  :D , but, where does it fit in the hold my hand video?

Restaurant, dancer, stripper....didn´t we read somewhere some stories linking MJ to a stripping bar with Murray before he passed or am I confused?

[bec]

One More Chance: MJ puts the audience on stage and walks away at the end. Beam of light across the screen in the dark, near the end of the video.

Hold My Hand: video begins with audience in the dark with beam of light across the screen. MJ is a shadow, this life don't last forever. Watch it, it's the death and sorrow afterwards...
and then SOME began to BELIVE and their sorrow turned to joy (with discovery).
Ends with sead in the puddle on the Hollywood Star, gets stepped on, turns into a PALM TREE.

Hollywood Tonight: video starts with PALM TREES in Hollywood. The dancer works as a waitress at one part. Waitress in a Restaurant.

Billy Jean is mixed in because the lie becomes the truth.

Holy Shit I'm excited.

[MissG]

One More Chance: MJ puts the audience on stage and walks away at the end. Beam of light across the screen in the dark, near the end of the video.

Hold My Hand: video begins with audience in the dark with beam of light across the screen. MJ is a shadow, this life don't last forever. Watch it, it's the death and sorrow afterwards...
and then SOME began to BELIVE and their sorrow turned to joy (with discovery).
Ends with sead in the puddle on the Hollywood Star, gets stepped on, turns into a PALM TREE.

Hollywood Tonight: video starts with PALM TREES in Hollywood. The dancer works as a waitress at one part. Waitress in a Restaurant.

Billy Jean is mixed in because the lie becomes the truth.

Holy Shit I'm excited.

Me more  :D  I need the last video Behind the mask. It makes A LOT of sense.

[MissG]

Lyrics for behind the mask. Fits perfect!!

All along I had to talk about it
But like a two edged sword
it cuts you and it stabs me
All along I knew you were a phony girl
You sit behind the mask
and you control your world
You sit around and I watch your face
I try to find the truth
But that's your hiding place
You say you love me but it's hard to see
Cos when he's in your arms
You're throwing rocks at me

Who do you love?
Is it me?
With you?
I don't know
Who do you love?
I don't want ya
If you can't answer
You know me

(There is nothing in your eyes)
There is nothing in your eyes
(But that's the way you cry)
But that's the way you cry girl (Cry girl)
(All is grand, all is bright)
All is grand, all is bright
(you're just studyng my mind)

I Walk around i'm suffering in my doom
When I come to you
Your sitting in your room
You sit around in the strangest place
So take off the mask
So I can see your face

Who do you love?
Is it me?
With You?
I don't know
Who do you love, babe?
I don't want ya
If you can't answer
I know you

(Heaven must be wary)

[ From: http://www.metrolyrics.com/behind-the-m ... ckson.html ]

Heaven must be wary
(Your smile is scary)
You got me scared, girl
(Insincere, empty tears)
Every Year, yours are good
(Where's your soul? Where'd it go?)
You got me scared, girl

(Heaven must be wary)
Heaven must be wary
(Your smile is scary)
You know where you've been
(Insincere, empty tears)
Every year, na na na
(Where's your soul? Where did it go?)

I Walk around i'm suffering in my doom
And when I come to you
Your sitting in your room
You sit around in the strangest place
So take off the mask
So I can see your face

Who do you love?
Is it me?
With you?
I dont know
Who do you love, babe?
I don't want ya
If you can't answer
I know you

Who do you love?
Is it me?
With you?
I don't know
Who do you love?
I don't want ya
If you can't answer
I don't know
I don't wanna talk about it (let's talk about it)
I don't wanna talk about it (let's talk about it)
I don't wanna talk about it (let's talk about it)

[~Souza~]

bec, you are on to something. We were looking for a story in the setlist of TII, guess that was 'much too soon'. Behind the mask is said to be next, the videos ARE following up pretty quick IMO.

[suspicious mind]

does this old man dancer guy make anyone think of the hat man at the funeral with his seemingly always being on the phone before the dancing starts? have i finally flipped?