BoOTyLiCioUs said:

everything Michael does screams he's a Country, Self-Hating, Closeted, Once poor Black man born in 1958. He can't escape that shit.

DavidEye said:

On one hand, I feel the same way as u do. On the other hand, for some reason, I CAN see Michael coming out with an album, and if it's good, I can see it selling
like hotcakes. Producer L.A. Reid said that IF Michael was to succeed, he would should get a new change of address. Sell Neverland, move to New York, put out a new album with more ballad type soulful material and then do a scaled down tour. No huge arenas. He felt that MJ needs to reconnect with the real world.

Xavier23 said:

maybe cos we cant see mike being intimate with anybody?!?

He fucked his own good thing up by being such a damn child and hanging out with kids. He has spent tons of money on a rediculous ranch called "Neverland" with amusement park rides, toys, and animals. He's also spent so much money on payoffs to past accusers and now on laywers for this court case.

Michael had enough money that he could have come out as a strong, proud gay man and absolutely flaunted it in people's faces. It wouldn't have mattered if he ever sold another record in his life because he had enough money that he was set for life. He had enough money that, if people called him words like "faggott", he could say "I'm a rich faggott and your money made me one, you stupid ass motherfuckers, now do something about it if you don't like it". He was in a position to have the last laugh but instead, he's the one being laughed at for running around with kids like a damned fool. He should have been running around with either full grown men or full grown women.....whichever it is that turns him on.

TonyVanDam said:

I admired him in when he released the "History" album. This album had many uptempo funk tracks at a time when everyone else had slowed the tempo down and were doing hip hop. Michael still came out doing his own thing. He still had to mess it up by putting kids on the album, which was a turnoff. I didn't buy "Invincible" because when I heard the first single, I saw he had sold out to the midtempo hip hop generation. It took him years to do it, but he finally did.

If he's going for a more modern sound, I agree, electronic music would be the way for him to go. Some housy type music would be great with hints of rock mixed in it. I wouldn't want him to go full blown techno though. Since acid and techno took over house, the beat has become too fast (I never thought I would live to hear myself say that). There is such a thing as too fast. I've been in the clubs and the beat will be so fast that people are hopping around like rabbits instead of dancing with absolutely no rhythm. Music has to have rhythm to it. Then there are some of the acid type techno songs that sound really great but they are not really a full fledged "song". The entire song sounds the same all the way through. It doesn't break down in the middle or switch up within the song. You can put the needle anywhere on the record and it sounds the same all the way through. If Michael could come out with something like this but make it an actual "song" with lyrics, a chorus, a bridge, etc., he might be on to something. He would sound great doing something like Cher's "Believe". I think that's the last "current" song in recent years that I actually like.

I love the way we all think we know what´s best for Mike. Let me tell you something.....WE HAVE NO IDEA!!!

blackguitaristz said:

If I were Michael and escaped unscathed legally from his present predicament, 1st i'd take a serious look at the Man In The Mirror and make some decisions.

1. If there is a sexual/psychological/physical problem, get help.

2. Get an extreme makeover of the adult variety. (IMO "Captain Crunch" suits on someone approaching 50 is pushing it)

3. If it's determined that he still can have a career in the biz (be it large or small), start work on a smoking record.
Consider a skillful non-trendy adult. (Quincy Jones maybe?)

4. Get out of the house and on the road.
As others have said, if the U.S. won't have it, there's a big world out there willing to pay for him to get on stage.


Step 1 is mandatory all others are optional.


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

I love the way we all think we know what´s best for Mike. Let me tell you something.....WE HAVE NO IDEA!!!

I'm not sure what he should do....but I have noticed one thing. All of the other Megastars of the 80's--- Prince, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, etc....have aged with their core audiences, and their music has matured with them--in other words, they're not chasing the teen market. If young people like their music, that's fine, but these artists aren't pandering to them. Michael, generally speaking, is still obsessed with trying to be the hottest thing around, and Pop just doesn't work like that when you get older. There may be some young kids around that are MJ fans, but most of 'em couldn't give a rat's ass about ol' Mike! why not try making music for people over 18 now? he's got a true artist's talents and abilities , but apparently wants to just be the entertainer....If he put his energy into pushing his boundaries and trying to be the best artist he can be, instead of obsessing about how many records he's going to sell, it'd be amazing what he could accomplish...




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dag said:

I agree with you 100%. People are so quick to offer their advice to MJ, saying what he should or should not do without any real knowledge of him.

He should ignore all of these people and go live somewhere secluded for a while, write some songs and then come back with a hit album.

Fuck those know-it-alls telling him what to do!

doctormcmeekle said:

See,that's the problem.Michael has spent many years not listening to other people's advice and look at the mess he is in right now! He's obviously surrounded by a bunch of wimpy "yes men" and non-concerned family members who don't question anything he does.

DavidEye said:

In Mickey's case, the yes men is not the problem. Mickey does give a damn and just a dorment homosexual unfornately who dosen't want to come out the closet.

Hotlegs said:

Says you. But you really don't know that, Michael has vehemantly denied being gay previously. I remember at least one "I'm not a homo" statement from him in the late seventies. Raised as a witness, he more than likely finds homosexuality abhorrent in all it's shapes and forms (including abusing boys)

Hotlegs said:

Says you. But you really don't know that, Michael has vehemantly denied being gay previously. I remember at least one "I'm not a homo" statement from him in the late seventies. Raised as a witness, he more than likely finds homosexuality abhorrent in all it's shapes and forms (including abusing boys)

but he has also vehemently denied having alot of plastic surgery

sorry to say this,but his denials don't carry much weight anymore

DavidEye said:

I don't think he has had as much surgery as people have claimed. He's admitted to having his nose done (like he could deny it anyway ) and his chin. Beyond that I think he's probably had botox injections, but that's not considered plastic surgery though, is it?

Lol,you are funny

DavidEye said:

So what else would you say he's had done?

The question is....what hasn't he had done?


he has an entirely new face than the one he was born with

Cloudbuster said:

The question is....what hasn't he had done?


he has an entirely new face than the one he was born with

he's had his nose done about four times in total...

And why do so many people still fucking care enough to go on and on about it? It's no longer 1987.