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Reply #870 posted 05/25/09 8:17am

TheWifey

ElectricBlue said:

I think its time to have a little.. I told You So moment.

The day MJ's new concerts were selling out and they got to 50 shows, I wrote on a topic he wouldnt do ONE show. He wouldnt show up to any of them and make some bullshit excuse..

lol

Of course the typical truth of not having any talent, needing to lip sync every note, etc etc...

If you had 1/16th of the talent you pretend you have, you wouldnt need magic, elephants & bombs going off. So there is red flags going up everywhere that YES I was right, I have been writing this exact statement of "No talent" with examples on this very board for over 12+ years!! Now add that the guy in his last child rape trial he could barely sit in the chair because of his back and seeing him on Access Hollywood about a weeks ago greeting all the dancers and he looked like he was having some "slight" trouble walking towards them.

pssst.. There isnt going to be any concerts! Shit maybe he will squeeze out a few, but no where near 50 of them. lol I think when he reads all the bad reviews - we will see more and more excuses. But I'm sticking to NO CONCERTS. Will see, I actually hope he does do some, so we can put this puppy to rest that this guy has not one spec of talent! You wouldnt need to lip sync your whole tv performance career for 25+ years.. if you did.

You know on so many levels Michael Jackson & Andrew "Dice" Clay are about the same person, sure MJ has a TON more fans. But at the root they are pretty much the same! They both had a moment, they both havent left that moment - they keep repeating it & they always "try"to fool their fans that hey this is going to be new and then.... "Hickory Dickory Dock" = Moonwalk... BOOM its the same act. Nothing new.

I have seen Dice on some tv roast lately and the guy doesnt sit there with the other comics, he thinks he is "The Heavyweight Champion of Comedy" he always brings up selling out 20,000 seats at MSG, THEN he is announced for these Comedy Roast in the middle of the show of course - He starts walking out to the stage with 2 bodyguards like a boxing champ walking to the ring, they have smoke & music playing for him....

and everyone on stage - the audience thinks "Oh Here is Comes he is going to slam the guy!" .. "OMG Dice from 1990 is here!"

Then he gets up there and has NOTHING to say. He bombs! He has been milking his 1988-1991 Fame for 21 years. But everytime, even on Donald Trump's Celebrity Appentice he brings up the typical (20,000 MSG - Heavyweight Champion - Biggest Comic Ever) crap.
http://www.youtube.com/wa...wjwYhQh_pg

LOOK at his site:The Undisputed Heavyweight Comedy King is back and better than ever. And if you don't like it, then hey, F*CK YOU!!!! -Dice ...
http://www.andrewdiceclay.com

Michael Jackson does the samething! He always has a 5 minute (remember what I used to be) intro video playing - before he comes out! Its all quick cuts from concerts, selling out, crowds, countries, etc. ALL from like from 20 years ago. But everytime he is announce on some tv performance. You get all gushy with this Intro ... It' like "OMG I remember this.. yes it's Michael Jackson" - You know MICHAEL JACKSON!! Then he comes out,lip syncs and its awful.

Just like Andrew Dice Clay.

At the root of both guys they both are trying to remind you of their past - but they never do anything new. It's the same act or routine you have seen 20 years ago and usually with every "comeback" its the same type promotion with the same result. Neither guy has talent - they thought up something that some at one time thought was well interesting, but they are both not talented enough to move away from it,but both want to get their ass kissed and have the world pretend it hasn't grown past 1982 or in Dice's case 1990. Both guys are hasbeens wearing their clothes from the past! One wears a hat - glove sparkle jacket.. the other wears leather. Just anything to remind you of the past!

Sure MJ has millions and million of more fans. Dice can't fill more then Yuck Yuck's in Montana. But at the very root they are both the same person, doing the same scam on the public. 2 barely talent people who can't move past the only reason we remember them.

1990 Prime Dice Rules


Now - fat gray - bald - same kinda leather doing his "moonwalk"


Prime Motown 25



Last Time - bleached - same kinda glove - jacket doing his "hickory dickory dock"

Needing to edit 2 seperate concerts into one for tv because he isn't what he used to be.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...SZl5Vr_AO8
WATCH the Microphone go from IN his Hand to NOT.. then back to being in his hand. They even needed to edit in a "King of Pop" sign to make it work, because in one of the nights he had the mic in his hand and pretended to sing and the other he put the microphone on the mic stand. Oops! lol


The point is?
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Reply #871 posted 05/25/09 8:52am

Serena

ElectricBlue said:


WATCH the Microphone go from IN his Hand to NOT.. then back to being in his hand. They even needed to edit in a "King of Pop" sign to make it work, because in one of the nights he had the mic in his hand and pretended to sing and the other he put the microphone on the mic stand. Oops! lol


YIKES!! That last screencap is scary looking!!

Dude did have the moves, I just wish he never would've started the stupid crotch grabbing thing, it's so gross.
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Reply #872 posted 05/25/09 9:02am

suga10

Invincible Era- dude just looked completely out of it : He looked so drugged out in this photo sad



At least he doesn't look like that anymore. He looks better now.


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Reply #873 posted 05/25/09 9:07am

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TheWifey said:

ElectricBlue said:

I think its time to have a little.. I told You So moment.

The day MJ's new concerts were selling out and they got to 50 shows, I wrote on a topic he wouldnt do ONE show. He wouldnt show up to any of them and make some bullshit excuse..

lol

Of course the typical truth of not having any talent, needing to lip sync every note, etc etc...

If you had 1/16th of the talent you pretend you have, you wouldnt need magic, elephants & bombs going off. So there is red flags going up everywhere that YES I was right, I have been writing this exact statement of "No talent" with examples on this very board for over 12+ years!! Now add that the guy in his last child rape trial he could barely sit in the chair because of his back and seeing him on Access Hollywood about a weeks ago greeting all the dancers and he looked like he was having some "slight" trouble walking towards them.

pssst.. There isnt going to be any concerts! Shit maybe he will squeeze out a few, but no where near 50 of them. lol I think when he reads all the bad reviews - we will see more and more excuses. But I'm sticking to NO CONCERTS. Will see, I actually hope he does do some, so we can put this puppy to rest that this guy has not one spec of talent! You wouldnt need to lip sync your whole tv performance career for 25+ years.. if you did.

You know on so many levels Michael Jackson & Andrew "Dice" Clay are about the same person, sure MJ has a TON more fans. But at the root they are pretty much the same! They both had a moment, they both havent left that moment - they keep repeating it & they always "try"to fool their fans that hey this is going to be new and then.... "Hickory Dickory Dock" = Moonwalk... BOOM its the same act. Nothing new.

I have seen Dice on some tv roast lately and the guy doesnt sit there with the other comics, he thinks he is "The Heavyweight Champion of Comedy" he always brings up selling out 20,000 seats at MSG, THEN he is announced for these Comedy Roast in the middle of the show of course - He starts walking out to the stage with 2 bodyguards like a boxing champ walking to the ring, they have smoke & music playing for him....

and everyone on stage - the audience thinks "Oh Here is Comes he is going to slam the guy!" .. "OMG Dice from 1990 is here!"

Then he gets up there and has NOTHING to say. He bombs! He has been milking his 1988-1991 Fame for 21 years. But everytime, even on Donald Trump's Celebrity Appentice he brings up the typical (20,000 MSG - Heavyweight Champion - Biggest Comic Ever) crap.
http://www.youtube.com/wa...wjwYhQh_pg

LOOK at his site:The Undisputed Heavyweight Comedy King is back and better than ever. And if you don't like it, then hey, F*CK YOU!!!! -Dice ...
http://www.andrewdiceclay.com

Michael Jackson does the samething! He always has a 5 minute (remember what I used to be) intro video playing - before he comes out! Its all quick cuts from concerts, selling out, crowds, countries, etc. ALL from like from 20 years ago. But everytime he is announce on some tv performance. You get all gushy with this Intro ... It' like "OMG I remember this.. yes it's Michael Jackson" - You know MICHAEL JACKSON!! Then he comes out,lip syncs and its awful.

Just like Andrew Dice Clay.

At the root of both guys they both are trying to remind you of their past - but they never do anything new. It's the same act or routine you have seen 20 years ago and usually with every "comeback" its the same type promotion with the same result. Neither guy has talent - they thought up something that some at one time thought was well interesting, but they are both not talented enough to move away from it,but both want to get their ass kissed and have the world pretend it hasn't grown past 1982 or in Dice's case 1990. Both guys are hasbeens wearing their clothes from the past! One wears a hat - glove sparkle jacket.. the other wears leather. Just anything to remind you of the past!

Sure MJ has millions and million of more fans. Dice can't fill more then Yuck Yuck's in Montana. But at the very root they are both the same person, doing the same scam on the public. 2 barely talent people who can't move past the only reason we remember them.

1990 Prime Dice Rules


Now - fat gray - bald - same kinda leather doing his "moonwalk"


Prime Motown 25



Last Time - bleached - same kinda glove - jacket doing his "hickory dickory dock"

Needing to edit 2 seperate concerts into one for tv because he isn't what he used to be.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...SZl5Vr_AO8
WATCH the Microphone go from IN his Hand to NOT.. then back to being in his hand. They even needed to edit in a "King of Pop" sign to make it work, because in one of the nights he had the mic in his hand and pretended to sing and the other he put the microphone on the mic stand. Oops! lol


The point is?

that ElectricBlue is pathetic!
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Reply #874 posted 05/25/09 9:10am

whatsgoingon

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whatsgoingon said:



The fact of the matter is during the late 70s/early 80s people did actually believe he was going out with Tatum o'neal and later on brook Shields. He was actually seen with quite a few women during this period, I am not saying these were sexual relationships but it didn't harm his image in the way hanging out with young boys did during the mid 80s and and 90s.

MJ has always been dogged by gay rumours since his teenage years and this was due to the fact he never seem to have a steady girl-friend more than anything else, not because he was NEVER linked with any women at all. But going onto the mid 80s you mainly saw him with young boys and in the long run that did more damage to him, than having any young lady on his arm even if it were for PR reasons.

Also I don't believe this crap about the reason we don't hear about his girls-friends because he is so private. Once your famous like MJ no matter how private he is if you have a long term serious girl-friend people will find out. He may keep the relationship private but that want stop people knowing that he is in a relationship. Fans are desperate to believe he had relationships with women like Tatianna and others that have come along, when there is no evidence at all.
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i dont buy it. there r plenty of megastars with secret relationships. how come we dont know who blankets momma is?


Name me one megastar like that? and how do you know that blanket's mother wasn't just surrogate// but unlike debbie rowe he just decided not to go through a farce of a marriage.
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Reply #875 posted 05/25/09 10:06am

cdcgold

whatsgoingon said:

cdcgold said:


but seriously if he did show he had a girl friend people ( and I'm including the haters on this site) would just say its for publicity anyway so whats the points the guy can't win for losing.

Lisa marie presly admitted that they "did it" in an interview and she really had nothing to gain from saying that, and i remember in the interview she seemed embaraased if anything to admit that


The fact of the matter is during the late 70s/early 80s people did actually believe he was going out with Tatum o'neal and later on brook Shields. He was actually seen with quite a few women during this period, I am not saying these were sexual relationships but it didn't harm his image in the way hanging out with young boys did during the mid 80s and and 90s.

MJ has always been dogged by gay rumours since his teenage years and this was due to the fact he never seem to have a steady girl-friend more than anything else, not because he was NEVER linked with any women at all. But going onto the mid 80s you mainly saw him with young boys and in the long run that did more damage to him, than having any young lady on his arm even if it were for PR reasons.

Also I don't believe this crap about the reason we don't hear about his girls-friends because he is so private. Once your famous like MJ no matter how private he is if you have a long term serious girl-friend people will find out. He may keep the relationship private but that want stop people knowing that he is in a relationship. Fans are desperate to believe he had relationships with women like Tatianna and others that have come along, when there is no evidence at all.
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WHAT FANS!!!!! most fans are well aware of the fact that tatiana herself made up those rumors , not mj he never said they were dating. You know what i am so sick of you i could scream,, why am i even talking to you anyway. I'm going back to ignoring you, you are nothing more than a parasite to me.
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Reply #876 posted 05/25/09 10:08am

cdcgold

Evvy said:

whatsgoingon said:



The fact of the matter is during the late 70s/early 80s people did actually believe he was going out with Tatum o'neal and later on brook Shields. He was actually seen with quite a few women during this period, I am not saying these were sexual relationships but it didn't harm his image in the way hanging out with young boys did during the mid 80s and and 90s.

MJ has always been dogged by gay rumours since his teenage years and this was due to the fact he never seem to have a steady girl-friend more than anything else, not because he was NEVER linked with any women at all. But going onto the mid 80s you mainly saw him with young boys and in the long run that did more damage to him, than having any young lady on his arm even if it were for PR reasons.

Also I don't believe this crap about the reason we don't hear about his girls-friends because he is so private. Once your famous like MJ no matter how private he is if you have a long term serious girl-friend people will find out. He may keep the relationship private but that want stop people knowing that he is in a relationship. Fans are desperate to believe he had relationships with women like Tatianna and others that have come along, when there is no evidence at all.
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i dont buy it. there r plenty of megastars with secret relationships. how come we dont know who blankets momma is?


if janet could hide her MARRIAGE that long why couldn't mj hide a girlfriend. come on. these haters need to go somewhere with that shit
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Reply #877 posted 05/25/09 10:20am

suga10

Yeah but the thing with MJ is that he might have made his girlfriends sign confidentially agreements throughout the years, meaning that his lawyers could collect money from those ladies if they ever spoke out about the relationship openly.

All these ladies have always told the press, how Mike would be angry, if they were to openly talk about the relationship.


Just look at what that Shana girl said in the past.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...YpAFI3gPkg
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Reply #878 posted 05/25/09 10:25am

crix1313

whatsgoingon said:

Evvy said:



i dont buy it. there r plenty of megastars with secret relationships. how come we dont know who blankets momma is?


Name me one megastar like that? and how do you know that blanket's mother wasn't just surrogate// but unlike debbie rowe he just decided not to go through a farce of a marriage.


She may be a surrogate so what ?? She still exists and MJ has managed to keep her identity a secret. Do you not understand the point ??
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Reply #879 posted 05/25/09 10:27am

cdcgold

suga10 said:

Yeah but the thing with MJ is that he might have made his girlfriends sign confidentially agreements throughout the years, meaning that his lawyers could collect money from those ladies if they ever spoke out about the relationship openly.

All these ladies have always told the press, how Mike would be angry, if they were to openly talk about the relationship.


Just look at what that Shana girl said in the past, how she was barred about talking about details.

http://www.contactmusic.c...%20defence
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That won't help, It not enough "proof" for them. these haters on here refuse to believe anything that works in mj's favor.
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Reply #880 posted 05/25/09 10:30am

suga10

Well this video I just posted here would.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...YpAFI3gPkg
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Reply #881 posted 05/25/09 11:17am

Evvy

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whatsgoingon said:

Evvy said:



i dont buy it. there r plenty of megastars with secret relationships. how come we dont know who blankets momma is?


Name me one megastar like that? and how do you know that blanket's mother wasn't just surrogate// but unlike debbie rowe he just decided not to go through a farce of a marriage.


umm- Prince has "secret" friends- Madonna- almost all of them- they tell people not to say a word- and these "secret" friends don't say a word
LOVE HARD.
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Reply #882 posted 05/25/09 11:38am

whatsgoingon

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cdcgold said:

Evvy said:



i dont buy it. there r plenty of megastars with secret relationships. how come we dont know who blankets momma is?


if janet could hide her MARRIAGE that long why couldn't mj hide a girlfriend. come on. these haters need to go somewhere with that shit


Janet never hid Renee, she just hide the fact they were legally married, everyone knew they were partners, therefore your analogy doesn't work.
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Reply #883 posted 05/25/09 11:51am

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Evvy said:

whatsgoingon said:



Name me one megastar like that? and how do you know that blanket's mother wasn't just surrogate// but unlike debbie rowe he just decided not to go through a farce of a marriage.


umm- Prince has "secret" friends- Madonna- almost all of them- they tell people not to say a word- and these "secret" friends don't say a word


Madonna & Pince Never hang out with kids whilst they kept their long-termed lovers hidden from the world. At the moment madonna is going out with a 22 year old and probably one or two other men. Prince has had long-term lovers that we know albout even if he doesn't blabber about it. You never see them purely with other people's kids just because they want to keep their love lives private.

And there is a big difference between a surrogate and a long-term lover, who is suppose to be in your life on a consistent basis. With Michael you had more boys sharing his bedroom than women. If Michael had long-term lovers I doubt he would have had so many kids sharing his bedroom all the time, because most rational women wouldn't put up with it.
And Cdgold your obviously so emotional attached to MJ that anyone that has a different opinion to you makes you mad. When your too emotionally attached to someone, even if you don't know them personally, you can never see their full flaws, hence the continual justification and rationalization.

MJ has major issues, now I ain't saying he is a Pedo, although I understand why some peeps think he, I ain't even saying he is gay but to pretend he had all these long-term lovers hidden away whilst he paraded all these children in public, who later went onto accuse him of child abuse just sounds too much out of synch.
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Reply #884 posted 05/25/09 12:40pm

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you know, I've never understood why people go out of their ways to bash and talk shit about an artist they don't even like

I mean, making essays and long posts....not to mention NEVER seing them in other artists....other THREADS for that matter, but they always tend to show up in the same threads about that one particular artist to simply bash that artist

why waste your time like that?

but hey, do you, if that's what makes you happy.....



anyway, I'm outta here


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"We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world."
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Reply #885 posted 05/25/09 12:48pm

suga10

And the way MJ is today goes all the way back to his childhood.

Its just surprising that the others Jacksons didn't get so screwed up like Michael did though although I'm sure they've all had their share of personal problems too, but none of him gotten so screwed up to the point that Michael did.

I really don't understand why Michael became the way he is today sad The dude seemed okay during Off the Wall and Thriller, and suddenly after 1984, he loses it completely, and everything has just been going downhill ever since that point. People recover after some point when they go through personal problems, but with Mike, he can't seem to recover at all and get his life back in track completely, because it always seems like there's always some kind of problem that's coming up with him- like all those lawsuits, etc etc.
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Reply #886 posted 05/25/09 12:58pm

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There's absolutely nothing "gay" about the way Michael Jackson moves on stage.

He has always been one of the very few male danceers that have managed to develop a completely masculine body language when performing. One of the reasons why he became so big back in the day is that he presented a way of dancing that was far removed from the more "effeminate moves" that most professional dancers were accustomed to perform (think of West Side Story, if needed a popular example - or just compare him to Prince, who is a whole lot "gayer" dancer than Michael Jackson has ever been). His mannerisms might be more "effeminate" or "gay" in real life sometimes, but on stage, not really. You have to realize that the more make-up he started wearing and nire frillies started appearing on his promo shoots, the sharper and more aggressive his body language became at the same time.

Nice photo comparison.
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Reply #887 posted 05/25/09 1:12pm

novabrkr

suga10 said:

I really don't understand why Michael became the way he is today sad The dude seemed okay during Off the Wall and Thriller, and suddenly after 1984, he loses it completely, and everything has just been going downhill ever since that point.


Don't know about that. In the very few interviews he gave during his late teens and early adulthood he was already saying pretty strange stuff to his interviewers (and was already speaking about how "magical" children were etc.). He was speaking in that ridiculously high-pitched voice, which definitely wasn't that high naturally. He already had developed most of what came to characterize his persona, sans the detoriation of his looks that came later due to whatever problems he really has had.

People tend to think that Michael Jackson somehow just "got spoilt" after "Thriller", as if the handsome black young man would be an entirely different person than what he is today. But if you read the stories from back those days he hardly was your average 20-something sipping beer and hitting on chicks. Even what I've read of Bruce Swedien's stuff of his conduct in the studio in the earlier days, it certainly doesn't sound like the most normal professional singer just carrying out his professional duties. Compared to his brothers? They really weren't what Michael Jackson was, besides he always sort of wanted to be the biggest star on the planet anyway. He was already in the latter half of the 70s heading to a different direction than the rest of the famil, who were rather happy just being sort of run-of-the-mill disco performers / Vegas act or whatever.
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Reply #888 posted 05/25/09 1:50pm

suga10

novabrkr said:

suga10 said:

I really don't understand why Michael became the way he is today sad The dude seemed okay during Off the Wall and Thriller, and suddenly after 1984, he loses it completely, and everything has just been going downhill ever since that point.


Don't know about that. In the very few interviews he gave during his late teens and early adulthood he was already saying pretty strange stuff to his interviewers (and was already speaking about how "magical" children were etc.). He was speaking in that ridiculously high-pitched voice, which definitely wasn't that high naturally. He already had developed most of what came to characterize his persona, sans the detoriation of his looks that came later due to whatever problems he really has had.


Well I'm sure he had issues back then, but he was still doing relatively okay overall. He didn't have all this crap going on back with lawsuits and everything, and he wasn't in that big of a mess like he is now. That's really what I was trying to say.

But I'm just wondering if there was some sort of huge trigger point that just completely made him go off the rails- b/c something clearly went off big time around 1984-1986, when the plastic surgery started increasing more than ever, and the Peter-Pan behavior came into huge play. Was it going through a traumatic experience like the Pepsi fire accident, and the recovery stages, was it Vitiligo??
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Reply #889 posted 05/25/09 1:53pm

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you know, I've never understood why people go out of their ways to bash and talk shit about an artist they don't even like

I mean, making essays and long posts....not to mention NEVER seing them in other artists....other THREADS for that matter, but they always tend to show up in the same threads about that one particular artist to simply bash that artist

why waste your time like that?

but hey, do you, if that's what makes you happy.....



anyway, I'm outta here


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There you go, getting all defensive and sensitive again!! Most people here ain't exactly talking crap about Michael, they are making a lot of valid points.

I use to be a much greater fan of MJ than I am now, but even when I was at my most fanatical i knew mJ had issues and it wasn't all down to the media and conspiracy. I became a fan of mj when he was stil a member of the J5 well before OTW let alone Thriller. It's more painful than anything to see this once gorgeous man who had so much talent and the world eating out of his hand to practically lose everything that made him so special.
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Reply #890 posted 05/25/09 1:57pm

BoOTyLiCioUs

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The tme has come

lockdance

the time has come for you to leave.
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Reply #891 posted 05/25/09 1:57pm

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There's absolutely nothing "gay" about the way Michael Jackson moves on stage.

He has always been one of the very few male danceers that have managed to develop a completely masculine body language when performing. One of the reasons why he became so big back in the day is that he presented a way of dancing that was far removed from the more "effeminate moves" that most professional dancers were accustomed to perform (think of West Side Story, if needed a popular example - or just compare him to Prince, who is a whole lot "gayer" dancer than Michael Jackson has ever been). His mannerisms might be more "effeminate" or "gay" in real life sometimes, but on stage, not really. You have to realize that the more make-up he started wearing and nire frillies started appearing on his promo shoots, the sharper and more aggressive his body language became at the same time.

Nice photo comparison.


well i have literally hundreds of videos of prince concerts, and a number of pro shot MJ concerts, and i've been watching back a lot of this stuff from both artists lately, and whilst the very early prince gigs involve him mincing about the stage and jumping around isntead of dancing, it doesn't come across as gay, even when he's wearing high heels, legwarmers and underpants and nothing else, but when you watch the MJ live videos from his concerts in particular, they just scream out gayness, the outfits, such as tight half mast trousers, the gold lame swimsuit thing that he wears over the top of trousers, the crotch grabbing, etc. it's reminiscent of freddie mercurys's stage posing, and sometimes george michaels embarassing stage movements, particularly his earlier performances, as he toned it down a bit during the 25 tour, but GM is renouned as an awful mover on stage

homosexuality is nothing to be ashamed of, and there are plenty of great gay performers like elton john, freddie mercury and george michael, all who are openly gay and unashedly so. if you compare MJ to those acts, and then to other male performers such as prince, bruce springsteen, iggy pop and david bowie, whilst some of them may play with sexuality on stage at times, you aren't left thinking they are gay, perhaps bi at certain times, but the masculinity shines through, which doesn't happen when MJ performs

i compared MJ's dancing to that of west side story before, and that's hardly a shining example of masculinity. when you add the clothing to the moves it just reinforces the gay overtones, particularly in the bad video
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Reply #892 posted 05/25/09 2:03pm

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bboy87 said:

you know, I've never understood why people go out of their ways to bash and talk shit about an artist they don't even like

I mean, making essays and long posts....not to mention NEVER seing them in other artists....other THREADS for that matter, but they always tend to show up in the same threads about that one particular artist to simply bash that artist

why waste your time like that?

but hey, do you, if that's what makes you happy.....



anyway, I'm outta here


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right, i agree.
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Reply #893 posted 05/25/09 2:06pm

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I don't think there's anything that shouts out gay when MJ Dances. To me he's a pretty masculine dancer.

His outfits don't for the most part either- except the gold leotard over the black pants- which was a bit OTT.
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Reply #894 posted 05/25/09 2:08pm

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whatsgoingon said:

bboy87 said:

you know, I've never understood why people go out of their ways to bash and talk shit about an artist they don't even like

I mean, making essays and long posts....not to mention NEVER seing them in other artists....other THREADS for that matter, but they always tend to show up in the same threads about that one particular artist to simply bash that artist

why waste your time like that?

but hey, do you, if that's what makes you happy.....



anyway, I'm outta here


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There you go, getting all defensive and sensitive again!! Most people here ain't exactly talking crap about Michael, they are making a lot of valid points.

I use to be a much greater fan of MJ than I am now, but even when I was at my most fanatical i knew mJ had issues and it wasn't all down to the media and conspiracy. I became a fan of mj when he was stil a member of the J5 well before OTW let alone Thriller. It's more painful than anything to see this once gorgeous man who had so much talent and the world eating out of his hand to practically lose everything that made him so special.


We don't deny that he has issues.he does. And we are not referring to you in this post. We are referring to unique and midnight mover.
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Reply #895 posted 05/25/09 2:17pm

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suga10 said:

I don't think there's anything that shouts out gay when MJ Dances. To me he's a pretty masculine dancer.

His outfits don't for the most part either- except the gold leotard over the black pants- which was a bit OTT.
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I think he has become a different dancer, however. As a solo act his dancing does at time come over as very Freddy Mercury at times. there is a lot more posing and grab crotching. Whereas when he was with his brothers and he was alot younger he was more of a funky dancer in a similar style to James Brown.
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Reply #896 posted 05/25/09 2:20pm

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novabrkr said:

There's absolutely nothing "gay" about the way Michael Jackson moves on stage.

He has always been one of the very few male danceers that have managed to develop a completely masculine body language when performing. One of the reasons why he became so big back in the day is that he presented a way of dancing that was far removed from the more "effeminate moves" that most professional dancers were accustomed to perform (think of West Side Story, if needed a popular example - or just compare him to Prince, who is a whole lot "gayer" dancer than Michael Jackson has ever been). His mannerisms might be more "effeminate" or "gay" in real life sometimes, but on stage, not really. You have to realize that the more make-up he started wearing and nire frillies started appearing on his promo shoots, the sharper and more aggressive his body language became at the same time.

Nice photo comparison.


right, i agree.Right, I agree his dancing is so sexual. A lot of his songs are too as well. Don’t stop till you get enough….hello people!!!! It’s about don’t stop until you reach an orgasm. Working Day and Night is about working to get that kitty cat…haha if ya know what I mean…lol. The way you make me feel could be interpretated as you make me horny lol.
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Reply #897 posted 05/25/09 2:22pm

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whatsgoingon said:

suga10 said:

I don't think there's anything that shouts out gay when MJ Dances. To me he's a pretty masculine dancer.

His outfits don't for the most part either- except the gold leotard over the black pants- which was a bit OTT.
[Edited 5/25/09 14:06pm]

I think he has become a different dancer, however. As a solo act his dancing does at time come over as very Freddy Mercury at times. there is a lot more posing and grab crotching. Whereas when he was with his brothers and he was alot younger he was more of a funky dancer in a similar style to James Brown.

he grabbed his crotch on the victory tour..there's video footage of this.
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Reply #898 posted 05/25/09 2:22pm

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Uhm, whatever. You probably want to see in those pieces what you yourself want to see (which applies to most anyone in any case). The "Bad" video contains some of the most "ballet" -inspired steps he has ever performed, but it wasn't choreographed by him. I think tou're really just scraping the bottom of the barrel with those remarks, but that's your choice on how you want to present yourself.

I will say though that Michael Jackson is hardly the epitome of a gay performer. His ideas for what a musical spectacle should be like are, frankly speaking, far too childish for that. He has been very safe in the choice of his visuals all throughout his career, give a take a few exceptions (the "You Are Not Alone" video springs to my mind, as well as the original cover for the "Bad" -album). Even with his androgyny he doesn't even seem to be much of a typical crossdresser either, which is something that his face for example would suggest. Either that or he is the only transvestite I've ever known that has an obsession about worn-out loafers and dressing up as a gangster.

Now, let's compare these two:


That's in an entirely different league, and so was Prince in his earlier days. To say that Prince didn't "appear gay" during the days he wore legwarmers and all of that, but Jackson did is totally silly at least to me. After finally having seen some bootleg concert footage from the Dirty Mind -tour last year, I can sincerely confirm you that Prince used to be 20x "more gay" onstage than Jackson could have ever even dreamt to be.



This is just someone fulfilling the typical 8-12 -year old boy's fantasies.
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Reply #899 posted 05/25/09 2:27pm

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suga10 said:

I really don't understand why Michael became the way he is today sad The dude seemed okay during Off the Wall and Thriller, and suddenly after 1984, he loses it completely, and everything has just been going downhill ever since that point.


Don't know about that. In the very few interviews he gave during his late teens and early adulthood he was already saying pretty strange stuff to his interviewers (and was already speaking about how "magical" children were etc.). He was speaking in that ridiculously high-pitched voice, which definitely wasn't that high naturally. He already had developed most of what came to characterize his persona, sans the detoriation of his looks that came later due to whatever problems he really has had.

People tend to think that Michael Jackson somehow just "got spoilt" after "Thriller", as if the handsome black young man would be an entirely different person than what he is today. But if you read the stories from back those days he hardly was your average 20-something sipping beer and hitting on chicks. Even what I've read of Bruce Swedien's stuff of his conduct in the studio in the earlier days, it certainly doesn't sound like the most normal professional singer just carrying out his professional duties. Compared to his brothers? They really weren't what Michael Jackson was, besides he always sort of wanted to be the biggest star on the planet anyway. He was already in the latter half of the 70s heading to a different direction than the rest of the famil, who were rather happy just being sort of run-of-the-mill disco performers / Vegas act or whatever.


Yep, I agree. Michael has always been eccentric. They were calling him peter pan back in the early 80s. As he became the most famous man on the planet, it came as a surprise because many did not know of him or how he was before Thriller happened.
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