Michael Jackson's "This Is It" single and music video, worthy tribute, or shameless moneymaker?
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First of all, the single and whatever previously unreleased music comes out ... yes, some people will do very well financially by putting it out and obviously the profit won't be Michael's, but does that make it wrong ? The reason it will make a lot of money is because people WANT it. I think millions of fans do want this material, and knowing that it exists they would be demanding it had it not been "in the works" to release it.
RE: the Spike Lee tribute video ... I have a great respect for Spike Lee, and believe he chooses his projects based on feeling like he has something to say as an artist about any given subject or genre he explores. Like Michael, he is a Black artist who rose to fame from humble beginnings and became a prominent Voice for the hopes, challenges, and dreams of his generation. To me, this video communicates his love and respect for Michael and does not strike me as having any exploitive motive. When I watched the video, I thought it was a beautiful and very personal tribute. The message I took from it: Look at the entire life of this amazing artist--maybe for a moment that challenges the viewer to get past what he/she might have felt about him in recent years and see instead a more whole, complex, brilliantly talented individual who spent pretty much his entire life in show business. See him as a human being. Look at the joy he brought into so many people's lives.
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I think that (almost) everyone who has a 'tribute' to Michael is doing so for the money. When he was alive, no one wanted to even mention his name in a positive light. The queen of talk shows said things about him on her show that let the world know what she thought of him. After he died, she has a 'heartfelt' tribute about him.
Even his family said (horrible) things about him.
Whenever you hear the name - Michael Jackson - mentioned on the tube, it is done for a profit, nothing but profit.
I have not seen 'This Is It'. I probably will one day, but, I have no plans to look at it.
There are a lot of fans who want to see more projects by him and they probably appreciate the new videos but, a lot of them came back to his side after he died.
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It was a worthy tribute, I learned a lot about the genius of Michael Jackson that you don't get in a staged interview, just watching him interact in that crazy way that you only see in geniuses really hit home that this man was not made by a large group of producers and handlers...he actually was the final say behind all the creative forces involved with his dancing and music and production etc. I walked away with a certain respect for this man the kind that you reserve for those quirky geniuses that you just want to leave alone and see what they come up with next.
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you're welcome, and thanks for posting it! this is the first i'd seen or heard about the video :-)
Just found this, and thought I'd post it in case the person who did the Mahalo page on the video wanted to include it ... Spike Lee interview with his memories of Michael :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POjJrOooh1QGreat find! I immediately added it to the page. And, I also think you might be interested in this one:
Michael Jackson Another Day !!
That's awesome ... really makes me interested to hear more of the recent unreleased work. Thanks for passing along the link :-)
Blind conjecture here, but something else I think is cool about Spike doing the video is that he and Michael are within a few months of being the same age ... how fun it must have been for Spike to see little Michael and the Jackson Five on TV and hear them on the AM radio back when he was just a little kid too :-) Seems a stretch to think they had much in common around the time Spike's career took off, as he was all about Black identity at the same time as Michael was having plastic surgeries that suggested a desire to disown that part of himself. But so many years later, love and respect from one fellow traveler in the world of entertainment to another. I really feel that in the tribute video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FYSe-H3_wMThanks @balinesecat, for that great answer, and your analysis of the Spike Lee video. I think I can on the larger part agree with you.