Corbin Bleu och Karina med "Smooth Criminal" på Dancing with the stars!

 

En man som Conrad Murray borde få sitta i fängelse flera år längre än han gjorde. TVÅ ÅR???!?! En läkare borde veta bättre. En läkare borde veta att man inte ska injicera så starka läkemdel i den höga mängden. Och att Conrad Murray ens vågar ljuga att Michael injicerade sig själv under de 2 minutrarna Murray lämnade rummet! Det kan Michael inte ha gjort, eftersom han redan befann sig i sin "Propofol-sömn". Och det faktum att Conrad Murray inte informerade sjukvårdarna att Michael hade Propofol i sitt system. Och han tror ärligt talat att han inte hade någonting att göra med Michaels död?! Usch.

 

(Jag tror inte att Michael var drogbereoende. Paris har skrivit på Twitter en gång att Conrad Murray ljög om att han var drogberoende, så jag tror på Paris)

 

Michael Jackson's timeless, multi-generational appeal has to do with the purity of his artistrey. There was just something about this guy. If you cut through all the life [stuff] and just watch what he does, he had a tremendous power. He had a joy, an innocence, a commitment to performance that was really unique. Elvis wasn' that. The Beatles aren't that. It was something different." ~ Nelson George

 

Visst var dokumentären Bad 25 endast en timme lång när den visades på TV:n? I alla fall, man kan se den fullständiga dokumentären, där den är 2 timmar lång, om man köper den på iTunes! Detta ska jag göra ikväll och jag är superpeppad att se hela versionen! Dokumentären finns även att beställa på Michael Jacksons hemsida!

 

29 år sedan idag fick Michael Jackson sin stjärna på Walk of Fame.

 

"Hollywood tonight" hade premiär på Ellen.

 

Här talar två om vad Teddy Riley har berättat om sitt arbete under Dangerous tillsammans med Michael Jackson. Jag tycker det var kul att killen till höger hade Off the wall som sitt favoritalbum, eftersom det albumet är på riktigt så underskattat. Visste ni att Off the wall är även Jay-Zs favoritalbum?

 

Lyssna när Lady Gaga talar om Michael efter att 55 minuter har gått. Jag blev, liksom Lady Gaga, ledsen när Michaels kläder såldes på auktion – det är mer än hemskt att hans saker försvann med vinden. Och jag är glad att Lady Gaga köpte så mycket hon kunde, eftersom hon kommer placera dem på ett museum och ge pengarna till välgörenhet. Bra, Lady Gaga!

(I större format)

 

Efter att Off the wall släpptes frågade Michael Rolling Stones om de möjligtvis var intresserade av att göra en "cover story" om honom, vilket de inte ville. Michaels respons: "I've been told over and over that black people on the cover of magazines doesn't sell copies... Just wait. Someday those magazines are going to be begging me for an interview. Maybe I'll give them one, and maybe I won't."

 

Rösta på Michael Jacksons omslag som din favorit på Vanity Fair! Han leder stort! Klicka här!

Michael Jackson ville göra en musikal av Harry Potter, men J.K. Rowling avböjde idéen eftersom hon inte trodde att det skulle bli en succé.

 

 

Varje söndag fastade MJ i syfte att rensa kroppen – han åt ingenting, bara drack, under dagtid.

"I got a chance to be in the studio with Michael Jackson, and not too many people can say that. But I had, he was in a raw element, he was comfortable, and when Michael was listening to the music – the one thing I learned, 'cuz I just kept watching him was: the dude was beatboxing while he was listening to the music, his body was counting the rhythm like a drummer, his whole complete body! By the time the song was finished he could examine exactely where he was going with the song." ~ Wyclef Jean

 

En riktigt bra kopia av jackan Michael bär i Pepsi-reklamen från 1984 kan man beställa! Jag vet att hemsidan är säker, eftersom många fans har beställt sin därifrån. Klicka här! Den är ursnygg. Det finns många andra MJ-plagg där, så kolla runt!

 

 

Det är inte direkt första gången någon hänger på luren i tron att det inte är Michael Jackson och bara någon skojare, haha!

Nate Giorgio is one of today’s most respected, influential and award-winning fine artists. Known for his masterful paintings and stunning portraits, Nate was born in Binghamton, New York, began his professional art career in New York City, and later moved to Los Angeles, California.  In 1984, Nate Giorgio, signed an exclusive contract to be Michael Jackson’s personal artist.  In addition to the private commissions, exhibits and artwork sold around the world, his illustrations appear inside and on the cover of the ‘Michael Jackson Opus‘ and in Michael’s book ‘Dancing the Dream‘, to name just a few.

 

 

Nate Giorgio: “I read how he loved art so I did a few paintings and sent them off to his office. I was still in NY and one day his assistant called me. She said MJ’s right here dancing around when he saw your art, he wants to meet you. Within a few weeks he flew me out to his home in Encino and we met. We went to see a rough cartoon version of Captain EO! At Disney studios, him and I just sitting there eating popcorn checking out the film. It blew me away and it was still rough, hand drawn segments mixed with live action.”

 

 

Nate Giorgio: “Sam Emerson, Michael Jackson’s Personal photographer, took this picture of me and MJ.  At the time, in 1988, I was MJ’s guest on his BAD tour in Rome.  We were actually at a party in this photo, just hanging out when MJ just asked Sam to get a shot of the two of us together. This party might have been at one of the Embassy’s. I’m not sure.”

 

 

 

DanseTrack:

If a person lives long enough, it is not that unusual–maybe at least once in a while–to encounter someone who is considered famous.  Especially if you live in areas such as New York City or Los Angeles, celebrity sightings can be a relatively common occurrence.  In most of these instances, however, you get the feeling that the person can lead a relatively normal life. Sure, they get double takes and the occasional request for an autograph, but by and large, the person of particular recognition can go out wherever or whenever they please.

 

With Michael Jackson, however, that was definitely not the case. I think you probably got a glimpse of that when you worked with him. What insight do you have into that aspect of Michael Jackson’s life?

 

Nate Giorgio:

 

“Yeah, MJ couldn’t go anywhere without being mobbed. I saw a lot of that from early on at the height right up to the time he passed.  I would see this when I would visit him at the Carolwood home.  At one of my visits to his house, in 2009, there was the usual crowd of fans at the front gate.  When I met with him inside a short while later, I said, “Man, how do you do it?  Day in and day out, you constantly have to deal with people wherever you turn.”

 

“MJ just looked at me and smiled as though it did not bother him one bit. He had that expression on his face that said that this was something he dealt with because it was a part of him.  From such an early age, he had just gotten so used to it.  MJ felt that the fans truly were an extension of his image.  He thrived on it, and this is one of the reasons he commissioned paintings like the hero pieces I did. These paintings represented the image he wanted to project for the fans, as much as for himself.”

 

“People always talked about how he was a prisoner, and that he could not go anywhere. Like all serious artists, however, he was mostly just a loner.  MJ did not seem to worry about living a normal life. When an artist creates, that artist steps into his own little world, which is a much stronger place than people think. That world is not fragile, but is instead full of power and creativity.  MJ, I believe, was like this.  It is very difficult to even compare him with any other celebrity.  Because of his unparalleled artistry, MJ viewed his isolation much differently than one would expect.”

 

“And, at times, he did go out and there were his children, who meant the world to him.  MJ loved studying and discussing art and  frequently met with other creative people he admired.  So fame never kept him from doing what he loved. That’s for sure.”

 

"Thriller" är på riktigt The Anthem of Halloween – dessutom kommer Michaels musik leva förevigt. "Thriller" är tillbaka på Billboard Hot 100! Helt vansinnigt häftigt.

 

“Just outside the top 10 on the r’n’b chart, Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” re-enters at No. 14, thanks to strong digital sales and streams caused by the Halloween holiday. Now a staple during Halloween celebrations, “Thriller” rose 51% to 35,000 downloads and 82% to 2 million domestic streams. “Thriller” concurrently re-enters the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 42.” ~ Billboard Hot 100

Det var meningen att Michael skulle ha burit huvudbonaden i bilden i videon till "Remember the time", men första dagen av inspelningen kunde den inte hittas någonstans – och söktes efter noggrant. Sista dagen av inspelningen, då Michael Bush kom till omklädningsrummet för att hjälpa Michael med kläderna, märkte han att huvudbonaden hade hela tiden varit i det rummet. Michael tyckte inte om idén att använda den och hade bestämt sig helt enkelt för att gömma den!

 

 

Brad Sundberg var väldigt snäll och delade med sig av denna audio för inte så länge sedan, och på svensk radio till och med! Michael och Bill Bottrell är i studion. Detta är inspelat precis innan inspelningen av "Give in to me" började.

 

Michael är gudfar till Nicole Richie.

 

"All I do is think of you" finns på albumet Moving Violation (1975).

 

 "It's not hard. You just have to put your mind to what you're doin', and that's all there is to it."

(I större format)

"Nothing could contain, stop or define the force that lived within this one man." ~ Jodi Gomes

När Michael var liten sa de flesta i hans närhet att han hade en 45-årig själ fast i ett barns kropp, eftersom han sjöng med sådan vishet ett barn knappast kunde förstå.

 

Does any dance move have more global recognition than the moonwalk? If you've seen it or tried it, then it's probably thanks to Michael Jackson. He wasn't the first to master the step: tap-dancer Bill Bailey performed it ("the backslide") in the 1950s, West Coast bodypopping crew the Electric Boogaloos had their own version in the late 1970s, and Jackson himself was taught by Jeffrey Daniel, the smooth mover from 80s pop outfit Shalamar. But it was Jackson who made the moonwalk his own, sharpening it up with a snappier heel and a slicker glide. In this and many other ways, he changed the face of dance.

 

Watch any footage from his early days with the Jackson 5 and you can see that from a young age he danced as easily as he sang. He could catch a step, spin it around and slot it into a beat just as naturally as if it was a musical riff. The dancing wasn't just an accompaniment to words and music, it was also a key part of the whole performance. As compelling as he was in the group, it was the solo albums Off the Wall and Thriller that especially defined Jackson as a dancer. Take his performance of Billie Jean from the Motown Records broadcast in 1983. Whippet-thin and mixing the fast with the loose, Jackson cut an unforgettable figure. Joints alternately jagged and juicy, he'd flick and retract his limbs like switchblades, or snap out of a tornado spin into a perfectly poised toe-stand. And then he wheeled out the moonwalk. Audiences did a collective double take and surrendered; Jackson ruled.

 

Jackson's dancing also changed the format of the music video – its style, its story, its production values and its audience. For swagger and attitude, the gang scene in Beat It simply beat its counterpart in West Side Story, from which it drew inspiration. And then, of course, there was Thriller. It wasn't just the horror-film plot and effects – the grizzly zombies busting out of graves were literally groundbreaking – that made this the best-selling music video ever, it was the dancing: taut, perfectly rhythmic and cool. With Bad, he introduced his infamous crotch-grab and in Smooth Criminal he executed the gravity-defying lean. The moves became iconic.

 

Jackson's influence spreads far and wide. From filmi dance in Bollywood to the sharply choreographed boy bands of the 90s, the patterns of his smooth formation drills have become a part of modern pop culture. Without Jackson, a whole generation of people might not have been involved in dance today: Cuban ballet star Carlos Acosta, British-Bangladeshi whiz-kid choreographer Akram Khan and, er, me.

 

Källa: TheGuardian.

 

Michael populariserade inte bara moonwalken, utan även roboten (vilken han introducerade på Soul Train Awards 1973).

 

 

 

 

En "Michael Jackson hotline" skapades 1984. Reklamen ovan.

 

Twitter, AOL, IM och Wikipedia kraschade samtidigt 15:15 (amerikansk tid) dagen Michael gick bort.

 

 

One av Cirque du Soleil ser helt fantastisk ut! Jag hoppas att de far ut på en världsturné och kommer till Sverige! Jag såg deras Immortal-show när de var här för ett år sedan och jag säger detta: om One kommer hit, ta chansen och se den, för denna kommer helt klart vara minst lika bra som Immortal.

 

Eddie Van Halen bad inte om royalties efter sitt gitarrsolo på "Beat it". Han gjorde solot som en tjänst till Michael.