angel345 said:

priscilla is one jealous B.
54 seconds is priceless someone should make a gif out of it.


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and why is she never gets flack for messing her face up, she probably had as much surgery as mj
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This Week's Sales.
This Is It - 241,000
Thriller - 36,000
No1's - 38,000
Essential - 30,000
Bad - 28,500
King Of Pop - 26,000
Dangerous - 25,000
Off The Wall - 24,500
Invincible - 17,500
History - 15,500
Motown Yrs - 10,000
J5 - Ultimate - 9,500

Total This week 501,500
Total since June 2009 - [b]20,022,000[/b]

bboy87 said:

Most of this is quite inaccurate and also, clashes with my opinions...so obviously im gonna talk!

and as for that hilarious Prince mention, I'm yours, Bambi, Why U Wanna Treat Me So Bad, Little Red Corvette anyone? All done alone and before the cheesy but crossover POP record with a Halan solo, Beat It.

I mean 1979's Bambi.....a young black man doing an actual hardcore ROCK song alone, years prior. Only difference was the exposure....but, then there's Little Red Corvette.

I would say a lot of this piece is wishful thinking.
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I just bought this awesome book on MJ that Rolling Stone put together,
called "Michael." It was released on November 3rd.

It covers every period of his life, with in-depth interviews from the
people who worked on every album. My personal favorite interview (so far)
is the one with Rodney Jerkins, and how he talks about how he stayed up
until all hours of the night, for days, going through Twilight Zone samples
for the song "Threatened" and when he would hear any lyric Rod narrated that
could be used in a rap, he would log it into ProTools. How cool! Yeah, FYI,
that album or "widget" as some punks referred to it at one point, needs much
appreciation than it got back in 2001. Rodney also talks about how MJ called
him and told him not to worry that INVINCIBLE didn't sell 100 million copies,
because he felt like one day people would understand/get the album. I loved
reading that. MJ really had matured in his later years, as far as his "commercial only" viewpoint from the Thriller and Bad eras.

Here is a link to this simply amazing book:

http://www.amazon.com/Mic...484&sr=8-2


One random final thought:

"This is it. Here I stand. I'm the light of the world. I feel grand."

I can't but think MJ is looking down on all of us,
and I hope he realizes what he meant to those who
loved him, admired him, and appreciated him and his art.

Not those people who gave him hell during his lifetime,
then on June 25th, ran out and bought "Number Ones" and
showing up the next day at work or school
talking about, "I love me some MJ!" Shudup liar!

No one's, NO ONE's more two-faced than Oprah Gail Winfrey.

I was considering buying this book but many fans are boycotting it because of rolling stone's past treatment of Michael. But with your description, I'm reconsidering. Is there any negativity at all about Mike?
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Did yal see this before?

I was going to post about the Prince part....that writer is way off base there.

Prince is the one that brokw down those barriers between R&B and Rock, a long time before "Beat It" and deserves the credit for it, for sure.

The article is cute. I understand what he's trying to, and yes, Michael deserves more credit than he gets, but not as much as the article gives him.

The fact is that those records were created by a team of the most talented people in the world. It's one thing to have a musical vision but entirely another to pull it off flawlessly. I mean, let's be real, you've got:

Michael - an INCREDIBLY talented vocalist and competent songwriter.

Quincy Jones - one of the greatest producers of all time.

Bruce Swedien - Genius audio engineer and mixer with an untouchable track record

Rod Temperton, Steve Porcaro, Stevie Wonder, Siedah Garrett, Tom Bahler, Paul McCartney, James Ingram - all incredibly talented songwriters who contributed to OTW, Thriller, Bad.

Greg Phillinganes, Louis Johnson, Jerry Hey & The Seawind Horns, Paulinho Da Costa, Wah Wah Watson.....the musicians that actually played on these albums are like a who's who of some of the baddest motherfuckas to ever touch their respective instruments. Put players like these with a producer like Quincy and you've got = instant win.

Regarding those demos, it doesn't really matter if it was Michael that came out with the great melodies, those songs are not hit songs on their own. They are demos. The musicianship is sloppy, the vocals are unfocused, they aren't produced or mixed to anywhere near a professional degree - they are like moulds of clay that kind of resemble something good.

These songs need killer production, killer production and killer mixes to be hits.

I can write songs as good as the Thriller demos at home in my home studio. I'm a good vocalist, a fairly competent producer, and a fairly competent audio engineer.

But it's when I take those demos to my cousins professional studio (my cousin is a multiplatinum award winning songwriter, producer and mixing engineer), and bring in some of the best musicians I know to play on them, that the songs REALLY come to life. You simply cannot underestimate the roles of the songwriters, producers, musicians and engineers in the music industry.

It's unfair for people to try and diminish the things that MJ brought to the table. But it's also unrealistic to think he is the only, or even the main, factor in the success of those records.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/143029/Michael-Jackson-s-debt-is-paid-off

MICHAEL JACKSON'S DEBT IS PAID OFF


This Is It has raised over £150m for the Jackson estate
Sunday November 29,2009

By Mike Parker
THE debts that plunged Michael Jackson’s life into turmoil have been cleared, barely five months after his death.
Music royalties and box-office takings for the film This Is It have brought in almost half-a-billion dollars to the King of Pop’s estate.
The phenomenal flow of cash, which does not include income from Jackson souvenirs and memorabilia, more than covers the estimated £250million he owed. Administrators John Branca and John McClain still face at least six lawsuits, originally filed against the singer but now transferred to his estate.

These include a £180million action by New Jersey based company AllGood Entertainment that claims Jackson reneged on a planned pay-per-view TV reunion concert with his brothers in Texas.

Hollywood director John Landis, who made the singer’s 1983 Thriller video, is also suing for an undisclosed sum over alleged non- payment of his share of the profits.

A spokesman for the administrators said yesterday: “Our attorneys are in negotiations with various parties on a number of unresolved issues. We expect these to be amicably resolved by early in the New Year.”
Even hefty out-of-court settlements and legal fees won’t make much of a dent in Jackson’s posthumous fortune and future earning potential, according to financial experts.

Jackson was already No3 on Forbes Magazine’s annual list of highest- grossing dead celebrities, behind fashion icon Yves St Laurent and composers Rodgers & Hammerstein, before This Is It was released last month. By yesterday, the film had raked in almost $240million worldwide, according to online monitor Box Office Mojo, with eventual income from DVD sales expected to double that. Sales of the spin-off double CD, which has made the top 10 in more than 120 countries, as well as re-releases of Jackson’s classic albums, are “conservatively” expected to top £180million by Christmas, according to Sony Music.

Forbes senior editor Matthew Miller believes the Jackson phenomenon will continue to dominate the magazine’s dead celebrity chart for years to come. His posthumous earnings already dwarf those of Elvis Presley, whose estate made only £34 in the current financial year. Mr Miller said: “In life, Michael sank into uncontroll­able debt, raising enormous loans to pay for other ones he couldn’t afford. He was, basically, a multi-millionaire living a billionaire lifestyle.”
Now, in an ironic twist, financial experts predict Jackson’s estate could be as much as a billion dollars in profit by the end of next year, with plans to launch as many as six new CDs.
The cash bonanza removes any financial uncertainty there may have been over the future of the singer’s three children, Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11, and seven-year-old Prince Michael II.
Mr Miller said: “If they chose, none of them would have to work a single day in their lives.”

bboy87 said:

GOOD!

ViintageJunkiie said:

AllGood Entertainment changed their lawsuit from $160mil to $400mil

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/143029/Michael-Jackson-s-debt-is-paid-off

MICHAEL JACKSON'S DEBT IS PAID OFF


This Is It has raised over £150m for the Jackson estate
Sunday November 29,2009

By Mike Parker
THE debts that plunged Michael Jackson’s life into turmoil have been cleared, barely five months after his death.
Music royalties and box-office takings for the film This Is It have brought in almost half-a-billion dollars to the King of Pop’s estate.
The phenomenal flow of cash, which does not include income from Jackson souvenirs and memorabilia, more than covers the estimated £250million he owed. Administrators John Branca and John McClain still face at least six lawsuits, originally filed against the singer but now transferred to his estate.

These include a £180million action by New Jersey based company AllGood Entertainment that claims Jackson reneged on a planned pay-per-view TV reunion concert with his brothers in Texas.

Hollywood director John Landis, who made the singer’s 1983 Thriller video, is also suing for an undisclosed sum over alleged non- payment of his share of the profits.

A spokesman for the administrators said yesterday: “Our attorneys are in negotiations with various parties on a number of unresolved issues. We expect these to be amicably resolved by early in the New Year.”
Even hefty out-of-court settlements and legal fees won’t make much of a dent in Jackson’s posthumous fortune and future earning potential, according to financial experts.

Jackson was already No3 on Forbes Magazine’s annual list of highest- grossing dead celebrities, behind fashion icon Yves St Laurent and composers Rodgers & Hammerstein, before This Is It was released last month. By yesterday, the film had raked in almost $240million worldwide, according to online monitor Box Office Mojo, with eventual income from DVD sales expected to double that. Sales of the spin-off double CD, which has made the top 10 in more than 120 countries, as well as re-releases of Jackson’s classic albums, are “conservatively” expected to top £180million by Christmas, according to Sony Music.

Forbes senior editor Matthew Miller believes the Jackson phenomenon will continue to dominate the magazine’s dead celebrity chart for years to come. His posthumous earnings already dwarf those of Elvis Presley, whose estate made only £34 in the current financial year. Mr Miller said: “In life, Michael sank into uncontroll­able debt, raising enormous loans to pay for other ones he couldn’t afford. He was, basically, a multi-millionaire living a billionaire lifestyle.”
Now, in an ironic twist, financial experts predict Jackson’s estate could be as much as a billion dollars in profit by the end of next year, with plans to launch as many as six new CDs.
The cash bonanza removes any financial uncertainty there may have been over the future of the singer’s three children, Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11, and seven-year-old Prince Michael II.
Mr Miller said: “If they chose, none of them would have to work a single day in their lives.”

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/143029/Michael-Jackson-s-debt-is-paid-off

MICHAEL JACKSON'S DEBT IS PAID OFF



Damn he had to die for it to get paid off

bboy87 said:

Wouldn't the tour have paid off his debts too?

ItsAllForLOVE said:

I believe it would but not like this but we will never know , good it's paid off though

babybugz said:

Probably but remember the new pad he was thinking of getting. More debt would have followed him but it didn't matter..he was Michael Jackson. He got everything he wanted..for better or worse, except of course a loving father, normal childhood and tons of love for him as a person, instead he was loved as an "artist." All the fame in the world, and all the money in the world can't buy L.O.V.E.! How sad!

Vanilli said:

Yeah , at least his kids will get the moolah

bboy87 said:

Wouldn't the tour have paid off his debts too?

bboy87 said:

Damn he had to die for it to get paid off

ItsAllForLOVE said:

Whoa, do you have a HQ version of the picture in your avatar?