The Michael Jackson tribute to himself

 Hopefully, there's nobody under the mistaken impression he was actually singing, right?
 Is that why he uses the one glove?
 So he can cover the mic with it and hide his white lips?

 I'm not saying the show was worthless - there's still nobody who can moonwalk like him,
 and that walking sideways thing is nothing short of Holy-Christ-did-you-see-that?
 But wouldn't his fans rather see a man and his talent with a live mic sing his songs?

 I don't know if Jocko has Britney fever or if she just copied him, but there's no musicianship.
 When I go on and on about Garbage or U2 (see below, now read by up to 48 people)
 sure, there's some bullshit in those shows, but they deliver the goods and put on a show.

 Hell, back in the old days, Jimmy Page would "call up the Devil" with his bad-ass green laser pyramid,
 and everybody knew he was just jacking around, but when that pyramid disappeared, you'd better hold
 onto your ass because the last half of Dazed and Confused was a tour de force by a modern Van Gogh.

 Also, according to Entertainment Weekly, Jackson had his skin digitally darkened so he wouldn't look
 so out-of-place when he was dancing with his black brothers - which means I mighta been right all along.
 Around the time the show was performed (weeks before it was broadcast) I wrote that Jackson
 probably needed time to clean up the performance and it looks like I might have been right.

 Also #2, the say Whitney Houston's chest was digitally "filled in" because after doing so much crack,
 her immaciated chest looked like one of those Bangladesh babies George Harrison helped to save.

 So let's remember that one of the definitions of "rock n roll" is that you have to be able to deliver
 without the clowns, the chimps, the special effects, the digital enhancements, the recorded vocals etc.

 Can I get an "Amen" on that?

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