babybugz said:

I can only be in the boards for a few minutes before seeing something chaotic posted lol then that's it.

Timmy84 said:

The same with me ,alot of them are turnoffs.

does anyone remember mjnewsonline , that site was terrible. no room for discussion, no room for realism , no room for roger friedman. no room for other artist blergh that was horrible. and one fan on there texas mj fan opend all these retarded threads.like do you like michael jackson , or stuff like that

People were really pissed about the handling of those tickets for the Victory Tour back in '84!

(Thanks Simone)

Billboard 200
#57 (46) Michael Jackson's This Is It
#58 (53) Number Ones
#98 (85) The Essential Michael Jackson
#120 (109) Thriller

Top Catalog Albums
#1 (1) Number Ones
#3 (2) The Essential Michael Jackson
#8 (5) Thriller

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
#18 (13) Michael Jackson's This Is It

Top Soundtracks
#4 (4) Michael Jackson's This Is It

A question for native English speakers. On a Czech forum, we´ve had this discussion what exactly those bodyguards meant by "making out in the back seat of the car"? Some say it means sex (which is the meaning that I came across and what I also found out in the dictionary) and some say it means just kissing. How do you understand this term in this context?
Sorry for this, maybe, stupid question, but we wanna know.

dag said:

It could mean Both.

motownlover said:

Yes. I was a member there when I first became allowed to surf the internet, making MJNO my first discussion board experience, lol. I checked that site daily between 2003 and 2004, until I discovered the first MJJForum.com, which was better than MJNO back then.

What was that site That had the good MJ pics? It was a forum there too I forgot. I was on there alot back 2001 -04.

Remember when VH1 used to play all those Michael Jackson specials? I'm having flashbacks

Jay, Do you have any info about the song Baby’s fire , I don’t think it’s an MJ song sampled by another artist ? Like peaceful Journey and Inspiration follow me , right? A new different song?

http://repertoire.bmi.com...ype=WorkID

ViintageJunkiie said:[quote]

bboy87 said:

They don't care
They'd do me for the money
They don't care
They use me for the money

Who are the people you contact for those type of things?[quote]

I would like to know this as well.

silverchild said:

I wish they would release these tours on DVD already. Cleaned up,and professional looking,I would be willing to part with $100 for them.
[Edited 3/15/10 10:06am]

dag said:

Making out generally means kissing and cuddling. I think there inference was there was a lot of passionate kissing - thus the "unless he was chewing gum really loud" comment.

Swa

Timmy84 said:

One of the appeal of a MJ discussion on a Prince thread is that it seems less biased and sycophantic. I like that people can have an open debate about the music, and the artist - agree to disagree and move on. It seems the more extreme the fan (on either side of the Prince / MJ spectrum) the less objectivity there is.

Fans who think the dancers were responsible is ridiculous. I've sad it before the sad truth is MJ's death was an accident - not a deliberate act, not part of a conspiracy - and fans too blind to see it will act in ways that defy sense.

Swa

babybugz said:

There's 2

MJJPictures.com and SteadyLaughing


On MJJVault, there are some rare pictures too

babybugz said:

Thanks for the explanation, everybody.

silverchild said:

That bass in Off the Wall rocks. Love it.

"Don´t worry about it, baby!"

So in the end, it seems it wasn´t a problem.

EmeraldSkies said:[quote]ViintageJunkiie said:[quote]

bboy87 said:

They don't care
They'd do me for the money
They don't care
They use me for the money

Who are the people you contact for those type of things?
That looks like the lyrics to "Money" on the History album.

bboy87 said:

No not those the site i'm talking about I believe is no longer around. It was other things on it not just pictures. It was called king something

Bboy, you didn't answer the QUESTION

WaterInYourBath said:

He´s too cute. I just adore him.

Can't believe that some MJ fans still believe that "No friend of mine" is a song for tempamental Its not

seeingvoices12 said:

Okay, fine

Not sure if Baby's Fire is a sample but it definitely be a Michael song

and No Friend of Mine ISN'T a Michael track. He's featured on it but he's not the main performer. Pras or Tempamental got a hold of the master tapes of Michael singing and used them

seeingvoices12 said:

Was that song even "finished" though? Don't sound like it was. :huh: I don't know, I'm just finding it hard to believe that's that's an MJ song...
[Edited 3/15/10 16:21pm]

bboy87 said:

It's a michael track , Time will prove that Im right

Listen to final production, It’s garbage.

The song has a verse, a bridge, and a heavy chorus, Listen carefully.

If you combine both leaked versions you will get a nearly finished track.

Who’s the fuck tempamental anyway, he probably stole it from one of the studios in NY while Mj was in Bahrain

Timmy84 said:

I think it’s maybe a demo or a finished track, and some parts and verses are missing, they are missing because tempamental fucked up and edited the entire track to add his outrageous vocals .

Same thing happened with “another day” , unknown cat added his vocals.

http://online.wsj.com/art...lenews_wsj

Sony Places Big Bet on a Fallen 'King'
Music Company Signs $250 Million Album Deal With Jackson Estate

Months after his death, Michael Jackson set a music-industry record, thanks to a deal between his estate and Sony Corp. valued at as much as $250 million, according to people familiar with the terms.

The deal—touted by both Sony and Mr. Jackson's estate as the most lucrative recording contract ever— guarantees the estate at least $200 million. With 10 albums over seven years, the deal will involve a mix of previously unreleased songs and new packages of familiar ones.

The dollar amount is especially striking against the backdrop of the music industry as a whole, in which U.S. album sales have plunged 52% in a decade. Superstar deals worth tens of millions of dollars per album were rare even at the peak of the CD-sales boom in the late 1990s. Yet it also underscores that the biggest acts are becoming even more essential to record labels, as individual fans purchase fewer albums each year.
[JACKSONjump] European Pressphoto Agency

Sony has sold an estimated 31 million Jackson albums since his death.

Since Mr. Jackson's death on June 25, Sony has sold an estimated 31 million of his albums globally. By the first anniversary of his death, his estate expects to have earned $250 million from sales of music, merchandise and tickets to the posthumous concert film "This Is It."

The advances being paid by Sony are to be offset by sales of albums as well as revenue generated by licensing Mr. Jackson's music for uses like videogames, movies and theatrical performances. But unlike the megadeals struck in recent years by concert promoter Live Nation Entertainment Inc. with pop stars Jay-Z and Madonna, the Jackson deal doesn't give Sony income from other parts of the late singer's business, such as merchandise sales or fees for licensing his name and likeness.

In an interview, Rob Stringer, chairman of Sony Music Entertainment's Columbia/Epic Label Group, said that his company was confident it would more than recoup its hefty investment, which he characterized as more than just a record deal.

"We see it as a partnership," Mr. Stringer said.

The deal should give Mr. Jackson's heirs plenty of breathing room with respect to the crushing debt load he had built up in his final years. With his album sales dwindling and concert touring ground to a halt, Mr. Jackson borrowed heavily to finance his lavish lifestyle

The estate is likely to pay off about $125 million in debt by the end of this year, including $35 million owed to AEG Live, the promoter that was to stage a series of concerts by Mr. Jackson in London. The estate is likely to refinance another $325 million backed by Mr. Jackson's two biggest assets: Sony/ATV Music Publishing, his venture with Sony that owns copyrights to 251 Beatles songs; and his 2,600-acre Neverland Valley Ranch outside Santa Barbara, Calif.

A $300 million loan backed by Sony/ATV and held by Barclays PLC matures at the end of the year, and before Mr. Jackson's death it loomed as a major financial challenge.

In striking the deal, Sony is betting that the appetite for Mr. Jackson's music will prove more than just a spike generated by his unexpected death and the ensuing round-the-clock coverage. A record contract struck in the early 1980s gave Mr. Jackson ownership of his recordings. Sony had the right to distribute those recordings through 2015. The new deal extends that right until 2017, and adds the rights to material recorded since then.

The new deal, like the one from the 1980s, was negotiated by John Branca, Mr. Jackson's long-time lawyer and now an administrator of the estate.

The deal retroactively covers the soundtrack album to "This Is It," plus a range of other releases, some of which have been mapped out, with others to be determined later. An album of previously unreleased songs is likely to hit stores before the end of this year, and another collection is due out later. The deal is also likely to cover expanded reissues of Mr. Jackson's albums "Off the Wall" and "Bad," as well as collections of remixes. A DVD of all of Mr. Jackson's music videos is likely to be created at some point.

Speculation has circulated that Cirque du Soleil would create a Las Vegas show based on Mr. Jackson's music, as it already has done with Beatles' music. If it does, a soundtrack album of some kind would likely be part of the deal.

The estate could probably wipe out the debts entirely by selling its half of Sony/ATV, although such a drastic step is viewed as unlikely now that Mr. Jackson's posthumous business is generating so much cash.

Mr. Jackson acquired ATV for $47.5 million in 1985. Sony in 1995 paid $150 million to become a 50% partner in the venture. Mr. Jackson's half is now valued at at least $1 billion.