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?