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Michael Jackson – Pop music past present and future With all the change in pop music through the years there has been one constant name through 1966- 2010 and beyond. Michael Jackson “The King of Pop” amazingly has survived nearly 5 decades of music. His name has certainly been tainted through the last decade of court trials and tabloid magazines but his imprint on pop music will have an everlasting effect.
I don’t think the average music listener understands what “the gloved one” did to change the music scene as a whole and that is why I am writing this article. For example: Michael was the first to start singing his own background vocals on his albums. Before the hit record “Off the Wall” Motown had a union of backup singers that would sing on everyone’s albums. It turns out he was a genius because no backup singer would blend better with his voice than his own. He continued to push the envelope with creating his unique sound by stacking his vocals on everything from leads to harmonies.
It was said he would stack up to 50 vocal tracks on one song to create the overall sound of the final recording. The one thing that still stands yesterday, today and forever is Michael Jackson’s performance of “Billie Jean” on a 1983 television special produced by Suzanne de Passe for Motown Records, to commemorate Motown’s twenty-fifth year of existence. If you have not seen this ground breaking performance I urge you to visit YouTube.com and watch it! It is still one of the coolest things to see when Michael broke out the moonwalk for the very first time for all to witness the magic of this dance move. There was a collective gasp in the audience as MJ seemed to defy the laws of physics. The song and that moment is timeless and still gives me goose bumps today.
Michael did something else that night that was not done in Pop music before. As he stood in the spot light posed like a manikin with his Seagram’s jacket and high water pants while holding his James Dean hat with one diamond bedazzled white glove. Everyone was wondering where his band was. Michael Jackson once again had broke proto call and decided he could carry the show all by himself. There was no one else on stage but the magic of MJ. This had not been done before, not like this. He wrote history that night.
Michael was also the one who started to produce his own beats and turned music videos into a seismic epic event. Now that it is normal to stack vocals on recordings and perform without a band we forget who was the one who set the bar so hi. Today’s pop star still has a difficult time comparing to the glory days of “Off The Wall” and “Thriller”.
If you take a look at the documentary of “This is it” you will see the dynasty of Jackson was going to break ground again. Revolutionizing the way we would percieve live music with 3D cameras, light shows, and an interactive experience for the audience not to mention the electric outfits that were designed for Michael the tour he didn’t end up doing. In this case electric is not a figure of speech.
In my closing thoughts I would like to include this little piece of trivia concerning my all-time favorite song in M.J’s catalog “Billie Jean”. Did you know that Quincy Jones and Michael had some serious disagreements on the track? Quincy originally did not like the song and it was almost removed from the album? The tune was mixed 91 times by audio engineer Bruce Swedien before he finalized the song with the second mix. Let’s just say they explored their options and usually the first ideas are the best. Pop music is Michael Jackson past, present and future like it or not.
If you like David Cook or Chris Cornell’s version of the song “Billie Jean” and don’t think it to be blasphemous you might enjoy a free track of David Samuel and his performance of Billie Jean. Visit the link below to receive your free download of the track and more.
http://www.thedavidsamuelproject.com/michaeljackson
How do you write a story that flashes between the past and present of the story?
I’ve read a book(called madapple I think) that does something like that.
Example: chapter 1:Past
chapter 2:present
chapter 3:past
chapter 4:present
How do you write it so it wouldn’t confuse the reader too much?How to show when the story is in the past or in the present?
If you’re thinking of switching back and forth between time periods the best way to accomplish this is to do it when it fits the story. Whether or not that is chapter by chapter. You might go through 3 chapters of the present before you need to switch back to the past. Just go with what your story needs, don’t lock yourself into a specific formula.
To show that you have switched to the past, you could write the year at the beginning of the chapters. Font changes are not necessary in this case.
Good Luck and Happy Writing =)
English Grammar – Past Simple & Present Perfect
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