Unplugged MJ actually sounds like a great idea, which means it will probably never happen. There's nothing I'd love more than for MJ, Janet, Mariah, and any number of other gifted pop/R&B performers to stop acting like they're in a state of arrested development and start making some mature, non-embarrassing music with real instruments about real life. Too obvious though, I suppose.
EightE1
· 9 months ago
Totally with you on that. I always found the "unplugged" environment really entertaining when artists who had the goods showed up, and hysterically funny when someone who didn't graced the stage. If Mikey's still got the chops, I think it'd be a helluva show.
Rob EightE1
WHarrisBullzEye
· 9 months ago
I offered Jacko some advice back in 2004, when he released "The Ultimate Collection," but I can only presume that he never got word, since I never heard back. But here's what I said at the time...
"With everything he’s gone through in his personal life in recent years, what he really needs far more than anything else is to kick-start his musical credibility. The perfect way to do that would’ve been to put together a definitive collection of all - not some, but ALL - of his hits, spread out across as many discs as it takes to do the job properly . . . and I’m talking somebody-shake-the-cobwebs-off-'Farewell My Summer Love' definitive. But, instead, Jackson has opted to produce a collection that, given its cost and its content, is likely only to appeal to his diehard fans. They’re the ones most interested in hearing the rarities and demos included within, but they’re not the ones who need to be reminded how great Michael Jackson once was and could yet be again."
DwDunphy
· 9 months ago
The danger of astronauts on spacewalk is that they could drift too far away from the craft untethered and there's no way to ever pull them back. You can watch them drift away into the void and do absolutely nothing to retrieve them.
And then there's Michael Jackson, and the home base of commercial viability...
Chris X
· 9 months ago
wait, did someone just call Mariah Carey gifted?
Anyway, I do miss the old MJ. You know, when he was black, male, and not a registered sex offender. Seriously, when I was younger, during Thriller's peak, I kept a Michael Jackson scrapbook(which I swear is collecting dust in my grandparents' garage somewhere, and requires an expedition of Indiana Jones proportion to retrieve) with all sorts of articles, clippings, pictures, and whatever else I could get my 7 year old hands on. Good thing I didnt keep it during the 90s, the prosecution could have used it as evidence.
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Rob
EightE1
"With everything he’s gone through in his personal life in recent years, what he really needs far more than anything else is to kick-start his musical credibility. The perfect way to do that would’ve been to put together a definitive collection of all - not some, but ALL - of his hits, spread out across as many discs as it takes to do the job properly . . . and I’m talking somebody-shake-the-cobwebs-off-'Farewell My Summer Love' definitive. But, instead, Jackson has opted to produce a collection that, given its cost and its content, is likely only to appeal to his diehard fans. They’re the ones most interested in hearing the rarities and demos included within, but they’re not the ones who need to be reminded how great Michael Jackson once was and could yet be again."
And then there's Michael Jackson, and the home base of commercial viability...
Anyway, I do miss the old MJ. You know, when he was black, male, and not a registered sex offender. Seriously, when I was younger, during Thriller's peak, I kept a Michael Jackson scrapbook(which I swear is collecting dust in my grandparents' garage somewhere, and requires an expedition of Indiana Jones proportion to retrieve) with all sorts of articles, clippings, pictures, and whatever else I could get my 7 year old hands on. Good thing I didnt keep it during the 90s, the prosecution could have used it as evidence.
Rob
EightE1