That new snippet sounds good, his voice sounds good, I really like the sound and style of the song; its an interesting cover to make as well.

One question though, how have TMZ got hold of this, I wonder who leaked it?

Omar222 said:

They just played it on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer on CNN.

Fire Capt. Blames Director For Jackson's Burns

Captain Don Donester was at the filming, working as a fire safety inspector. Donester says after doing take after take, he overheard the director tell Jackson, "Stand there longer [under the sparks]. You'll look more majestic." According to Donester, by making Jackson stay under the sparks for a longer period of time, it would look as if the singer was emerging from the smoke and sparks.

We just spoke with the director, Bob Giraldi, who said "That's not true. Whatever." Then he hung up.

Michael Jackson: Click to watchIn Michael's autobiography, the singer backs up Donester's story, writing Giraldi "came up to me and said, 'Michael, you're going down too early. We want to see you up there, up on the stairs. When the lights come on, we want to reveal that you're there, so wait.'"

Donester says the director's decision went against the rules set by the senior fire safety inspector. Don also told us he was one of the people who helped put out the fire on Michael's head.

Various people connected with Jackson say the serious burns the singer suffered triggered his prescription drug addiction, that consumed him for the rest of his life.

graecophilos said:

I don't think that there is anything wrong with competing against previous records, Michael has always been competing against his previous records? why you all think that is bad? The next album should be better than previous one., Michael has always been ambitious and I don't find that wrong, its people who always compare his albums to thriller, Michael realizes that he won't break thriller sales-wise but who will ? all what MJ said that he wants the next album to be better than the previous MUSIC-WISE Not Sales-wise, People need to quit jumping on the " Michael wants to beat thriller" bandwagon.

Regarding the new song, its on 25 second clip, you can’t say that any tenor could hit those notes; you got to hear the full song to judge but you could tell that his voice is still there.

Exclusive: Pepsi Responds to Michael Jackson Accident Footage
July 2009

Pepsi has responded to yesterday's appearance on the internet of footage of Michael Jackson being burned while filming an ad for the soft drink in 1984.

Contacted by Entertainment Weekly about the material, which was posted by US Weekly, Pepsi spokeswoman Nicole Bradley sent the following statement.

"We don't know how the footage became available. Twenty-five years later, we’d question why anyone would want to share such frightening images. It was a terrifying event that we'll never forget.

We were grateful for Michael's recovery and for the chance to continue working with him on a number of successful projects.

As for Michael as an artist, his music helped us define a generation and, like everyone else, we’re deeply saddened by his passing."

Bradley also said the company is not currently attempting to get the footage taken down and that Pepsi itself may well not own the rights to the material. "We don't know where it came from," she says. "We don't know what that footage is. It's 25 years ago. We don’t know who owns it, so we have no recourse as far as I know. I can only tell you what I know. We didn't put it up and we don't know where it came from."




http://music-mix.ew.com/2...trage.html

seeingvoices12 said:

in the öast days you have been talking a lot of bs.

Of course I can tell any tenor singer could hit the notes, they are not high at all.

Second, the fucking competeting made Jackson sick and spoiled his creativity.

Copycat said:

Pepsico is a selfish company and has made millions of dollars making people sick and fat by consuming their poisonous products.

Thankyou...
Current mood: sad
I wanted to write this blog to basically thank all of you for your many messages of condoleces to me and my family. Im sorry I havent been able to write any of you back but you must understand to even talk about what just happen still breaks my heart. My Uncle doo doo was more than a uncle to me he was my hero, my mentor, my friend, my inspiration. Everything I know and do was and has been guided by him whenever I was sad and didnt wanna go on he would tell me to develope rhinoceros skin because the best is yet to come. He never wanted me or any of my cousins to be anything less than perfect because he knew since he set the path with his genius we were gonna be judged in a hard way but his attitude and message was WORK no matter what do your best. Words cant even describe the type of loving memories he has giving me from letting me fly across the world during school to go on the history tour because I called crying saying how much I missed him, him teaching me how to drive at age 9 at neverland and me running all over his plants and grass and him laughing screaming, "doo doo stop eating dirt" or Just driving up to Neverland to have dinner followed by a water balloon fight he gave me the most magically childhood. Just 3 weeks ago we were talking and I said to him, "Thankyou doo doo Ive never told you this but you have given me the best memories of my life" His Response was with excitement, "REALLY oh bless your heart applehead." Totally surprised thats the type of person he was he never did things because he was trying to change your life he truly just wanted to make anyone and everyone who was close to him happy. I wanna believe this is all a bad dream and I wake up and call him and we talk about whatever random thing we always did but this is the horrible reality of life. He will always be with me in my heart I love him with all my soul and I CAN WAIT to see him again. My main obligaton now is to give his children my little cousins the love, care, and joy he gave me for the rest of their life.

pplrain said:

I agree, but the same could be said about Coca Cola or Kellogg's.

Pepsi should not be blamed for his death, how stupid. After all it was MJ who never had the discipline to let off from his addiction.

seeingvoices12 said:

This should be an album cover for his next release of music, or at least for the songs he was anticipating on making for a new album.

Also

This would make a good inlay

[Edited 7/16/09 15:01pm]

Austin's blog about Michael

http://blogs.myspace.com/...=499863444

bboy87 said:

i want to cry now, i really, really do.

seeingvoices12 said:

in the öast days you have been talking a lot of bs.

Of course I can tell any tenor singer could hit the notes, they are not high at all.

Second, the fucking competeting made Jackson sick and spoiled his creativity.

Austin's blog about Michael

http://blogs.myspace.com/...=499863444

bboy87 said:

heartbreaking.

Copycat said:

Pepsico is a selfish company and has made millions of dollars making people sick and fat by consuming their poisonous products.

graecophilos said:

I was not blaming Pepsico for his death in that sentence but come to think of it now I will because they caused his addiction to painkillers and Demerol that causes insomnia, anxiety etc.
His use of Diprivan to get sleep. Yeah ultimately Pepsico is to blame.


Think of it what would his life have been without painkillers to numb the pain from the scalp burns.
[Edited 7/16/09 16:36pm]

There's Michael, Randy, Joh Vonnie, Rebbie, LaToya, Jermaine, and i think Tito...
[Edited 7/16/09 15:38pm]

bboy87 said:

That boy that they claim is his secret child is also in the picture

bboy87 said:

That boy that they claim is his secret child is also in the picture

Song Analysis: Morphine

People often struggle with allowing artists to grow and evolve. For Bob Dylan it was considered sacrilege by many to pick up an electric guitar; for the Beatles, the shift from sentimental love songs to social statements and psychedelia caused them to lose, in some people's minds, their initial charm and mass appeal.

For Michael Jackson, the conventional wisdom meant every album post-Thriller that didn't sound or sell like Thriller was considered a failure; this, in spite of the fact that some of his most significant and challenging work came later. Call it the curse of expectational stasis.

Still, for those who gave Blood on the Dancefloor: HIStory in the Mix a serious listen, it was an impressive record indeed. Containing just five new songs, the album is considered an artistic breakthrough by some. "His singing on the first five tracks of new material has never been so tormented, or audacious," wrote Armond White of Village Voice. "'Blood on the Dancefloor' has the vitality of an intelligence that refuses to be placated. . .[It] is a throwdown, a dare to the concept of innocuous Black pop."

In a 1997 review, The New York Times' Neil Strauss concurred: "There is real pain and pathos in these new songs... Jackson's pain is often the world's merriment, and this is probably true of his new songs, which fret about painkillers, sexual promiscuity and public image. In many of them, Jackson seems like the elephant man, screaming that he is a human being... In keeping with Jackson's darker mood, the music has grown more angry and indignant. With beats crashing like metal sheets and synthesizer sounds hissing like pressurized gas, this is industrial funk... Creatively, Jackson has entered a new realm."

In the gritty, haunting "Morphine," Jackson tackles a subject he never had before: drug addiction. To a relentless, industrial funk beat, the singer lashes out in visceral bursts of anger, aggression, and pain. "Is truth a game daddy," he screams out at one point. "To win the fame baby/It's all the same baby/You're so reliable." The rage and disappointment, combined with its ear-assaulting sound (music critic Tom Sinclair described it as "alternating Trent Reznor-style sturm und clang with Bacharachian orchestral pomp"), make for a jarring listening experience, particularly for those accustomed to the breezier melodic pop of Off the Wall and Thriller (though it should be noted that songs like "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" and "Billie Jean" were already beginning to uncover the complexity, paranoia and pain represented in these later tracks). But "Morphine" is best viewed as an experiment -- both sonically and lyrically -- in representing the experience of physical/psychological pain as well as its temporary release via narcotic pain relievers like demerol and morphine (both of which Jackson has been reportedly addicted to, on and off, since the early Nineties).

This experience is also brilliantly conveyed in the song's form: About mid-way through the track, the grating beat subsides, symbolically representing the pacifying effect of the drug. "Relax, this won't hurt you," Jackson sings soothingly from the perspective of the drug.



Before I put it in
Close your eyes and count to ten
Don't cry
I won't convert you
There's no need to dismay
Close your eyes and drift away

Demerol
Demerol
Oh God he's taking demerol
Demerol
Demerol
Oh God he's taking demerol

He's tried
Hard to convince her
To be over what he had
Today he wants it twice as bad
Don't cry
I won't resent you
Yesterday you had his trust
Today he's taking twice as much

Demerol
Demerol
Oh God he's taking demerol
Demerol
Demerol
Oh God he's taking demerol

These verses are perhaps some of the most poignant (and tragic) Jackson has ever sung. Beyond the literalness of the drug itself is Jackson's persistent yearning to escape from pain, loneliness, confusion, and relentless pressure. In this brief interlude he beautifully conveys the soothing, seductive, but temporary release from reality. There is a sense of pleading, of desperation, before the high abruptly ends, and the listener is slammed back into the harsh world of accusations and anguish. Sputnik Music described this musical sequence as a "moment of absolute genius." The song, written and composed entirely by Jackson, is one of his most experimental and brilliant creations. It is a confession, a personal intervention, a witness, and a warning.

[Note: This analysis of "Morphine" was written before Michael Jackson's death. It becomes all the more tragic given reports that narcotics like demerol and morphine may have contributed to his passing.]

pplrain said:

It's not Pepsi's fault Michael was an unrepentant junkie who took health risks and didn't think enough of his kids to spare them a lifetime of tears and crushing heartache. He was on the cusp of a magnificent resurgence and threw it all away.

Arnotts said:

What boy???? Which one???!!

NastradumasKid said:

The one right next to him, holding Blanket

Swa said:
A great review and insight to what to this day is one of my favourite MJ tracks because of the very reasons you mention - the freeform of composition, the clash between torture and bliss, the production the instrumentation.

Thanks for sharing.

Copycat said:

Y'all make me sick with your holier than thouness...I could smack you with bulging discs and constant ...migraine headaches and see what you would do without pain medication-i'd wait to see what type of health risk you would take as your family looked on.....

Arnotts said:

Damn.....Who does he belong to???
[Edited 7/16/09 17:16pm]