Pepsi commercial with michael and the young "Carlton Banks"

Marrk said:

I would give anything for this thing to happen. I am sure his performance with Marceau would have been one of the greatest things he´s ever done.

* i die*

dag said:

i know suchshame, i wonder why is was never just postponed, they just canceled it altogether.

Anyone heard about Spike Lees upcoming film about MJ: Brooklyn Hearts Michael Jackson? If it is pulled of it sounds really interesting.

Militant said:

I watched the DVD on my blu-ray player and it looked great just being upscaled so a proper blu-ray would be awesome. Oh and Ghosts too, that should take precedent over Moonwalker actually seeing as it hasn't even had a DVD release.

whatsgoingon said:

Yeah,it does.

Militant said:

Is this getting a US release also? I have only been able to find it being released internationally.




typo edit
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EmeraldSkies said:

I thought so. Sometime in June.
Bboy has the date posted a few pages back
or maybe even last thread. I wanna say June 10th or 18th.
Don't remember for sure. By the way got the picture - it looks
great. Thank you so much for doing that!

Woke up inspired this morning and jamming to this:



"Life ain't so bad at all, if you live it off the wall."
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Vanilli said:

I was listening to that album this morning! I woke up with "Get On The Floor" playing in my head. June? Really? I hope so,cause I haven't seen anything of it being released here. Glad you got the picture!

This is my jam of the moment (Michael and Jermaine slaughtered this one):

silverchild said:

nice song

You guys remember Blondie paying Tribute to Michael last year at the Orange County Fair in July 09' Don't Stop Till You Get Enough



I guess she may cover the song for an album? Info. April 10, 2010 Studio outtakes from the new album sessions

^^ That'll be nice. I bet they'll do it justice. I love Blondie.

Timmy84 said:

Same here!

What a Voice

carlcranshaw said:

This song made me sad one night. I was watching the Jacksons Cartoon and there's an episode when this song plays and the video was just beautiful.

This is the first time I see those.

Anyone feel like translating? lol

^^^ I've seen it on other message boards. Below is a transltion

http://www.mjfanclub.net/...hp?t=19783

EXCLUSIVE: RUSKA BERGMAN

The last dinner with Michael Jackson

Famous New York stylist who was born in Takov (?), the woman who enchanted Steven Spielberg, Nicole Kidman and Hilary Clinton, for two and a half years she was inseparable with the tragic King of Pop, who said a month before he left this world’s stage that he will forever be with her.

Written by: Zaneta Apostolovski

Photos: Private Albums (like duhhh!)

Michael Jackson was never selfish, he shared his love with the whole world, but that he’s the King of Pop – no one truly admitted that till he died. Michael wasn’t a *****, even though so many ugly things and lies were written about him. People simply didn’t understand him just like they didn’t understand Beethoven and Mozart but time has proven that they were musical geniuses as well. Jackson was an amazing artist. He lived in his own world with his music. I’m happy/lucky because I got to be his friend and that he chose me out of all people to be his stylist – says Ruska Bergman, the personal stylist of the late pop icon.

She’s only worked for a few years in New York but she’s already worked with Hilary Clinton, Bjork, Cindy Crawford (?), Nicole Kidman, Gwyneth Paltrow and many other stars. She’s convinced that Michael Jackson was the most noble and sophisticated person that she worked with.

“I work for the Italian ‘L’Uomo Vogue’, I styled lots of directors, athletes, actors and when we had to pick out a music icon for our photoshoot, I suggested Michael Jackson, so I sent him a letter. I was at the theatre when after three weeks I got a phonecall from his lawyer who said he was calling on behalf of Michael Jackson.” – I was completely caught off guard. I got scared that I did something wrong in the way I contacted him. so I started apologizing. When the lawyer told me that Michael agreed to do the photoshoot, I asked him to repeat that sentence again before I pass out I called the editor of the magazine right away and told her that Michael Jackson agreed to do the photoshoot.”

According to Ruska, the preparations for this photoshoot were the most intense preparations on the planet.

“I got thousands of girls assisting us but by the end of it we decided on six. Completely impressed with what he saw, Michael simply shouted, “Girls, you are divine!” – but in order for Ruska to hear that sentence she worked very hard for five months.

Even though he was a megastar, Michael never acted like one on the set. He was very professional, he knew that he was working with the best stylists, make-up artists and photographers and he never saw their work as something beneath him.

There were hundreds of people on set. We played his Thriller album, he immediately stood in front of the camera and started dancing and a few moments later everyone was in tears. He had so much energy that I then, and many times later, thought that he must be from a different planet


[b]Michael Jackson thought the same about Ruska though. He was amazed how much love she put into her work . Because of similar sensibilities, they continued to work together and their professional association quickly turned into friendship. He loved her character and honesty. He appreciated the fact that she was always honest about what she could and couldn’t do as far as her work goes.{/b]

The change in Jackson’s style over the last couple of years was very noticeable and noticed by the world media (I agree, he looked *****g beautiful lately, shazaaaam!)…on the internet blogs, everyone was asking who was behind the new look of this 20th century pop icon. His secret weapon was of course RUSKA BERGMAN!

“He trusted my taste a lot and he used to always tell me to never stop because I’m the most interesting person he’s ever met! When we became friends, he told me when I first showed up on his door in Vegas he could smell the Mediterranean sea on me”

Ruska and Michael were working intensely with one another over the last two years. They saw eachother often and stayed in touch regularly.

“My phone rang on New Years. I picked up the phone and heard someone singing opera. I was completely baffled. I asked who it was and Michael responded, “Who do you think it is?” – He was very shy and I can’t even describe how gentle he was. But his talent, voice, music and charisma can’t be surpassed.”

Since the first time they met, Ruska was convinced he was a genius. After that meeting in Vegas, her whole world changed. She walked down the street and suddenly compared to Michael, all the people seemed so ordinary.

“The more I watched him the more I loved him. He was simply magic. He was the most noble person in the world. No man on Earth can compare to his inner and outer beauty. I met so many stars, talked to them, worked with them, but no one was even close to Michael’s charisma. He was simply always ahead of everyone else and I can’t believe that my dear friend died How can I believe it when we actively worked so much together lately? I was getting the styling ideas ready for the tour, which unfortunately he will never get to do now – and it would’ve been a true spectacle.
According to Forbes magazine, Jackson would’ve earned 2.5 billion dollars from that tour. But he wasn’t too concerned about that. He had over 30 people who took care of everything and he had eleven lawyers, he lived in complete isolation but he was able to see who his true friends are. The moment Ruska came to LA, Michael would call her and sometimes he himself would pick her up at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

“The window of the limo would go down and Michael – guarded by six bodyguards in there – would wave at me and call me over. We loved and respected eachother. He loved everything that I wore, and he always wanted to wear it. He always asked me where I was hiding so long. A man like that will never come by again, but I’m convinced that his music will live for hundreds of years. Everyone copies him, but only when Michael himself showed up would people actually faint.”


The woman who works in the biggest fashion house and gives advice to Tom Ford, Givenchy and many others, she fascinated the King of Pop when it came to how humble she was and her general view when it came to money.


"When we had dinner just a month ago, Michael asked me, “Do you know why I love working with you? You never asked me for money. And we never talked about some agreements. You trusted me as I trusted you. I changed six managers in two years. You’re the only person who stuck with me. Everyone else came and went, and you, my dear, will be with me forever.”

The last time she saw him was two weeks before his death. She was at his house five days in a row.

“He was truly beautiful. He didn’t seem depressed or sad at all. He even danced a bit. Didn’t seem to have a care in the world. As always, he was the gentlest person on the planet. It seemed almost as if he was ‘ours’ (“Ours” is a Yugoslavian expression when talking about people who are actually from ex-Yugoslavia. Like “that girl looks like she’s ‘ours’” ). I never felt that about anyone aside from ~Steven Spielberg. But Michael was so unusual, his warmth and love completely got me. Everything was just fine. I can’t believe that he’s gone all of a sudden.”

She heard the news about his death while she was in the studio. The moment she heard it she thought she would fall off the chair. The only thing she could possibly say was that it was simply impossible, it can’t be. She couldn’t stop crying for days. All the material and the photographs and data that she has, she’s keeping for the movie, This is It, that’s coming out.

“I know I was very privileged because I had the chance to be so close to him, to see him as a real person. We perfectly understood eachother. I feel sad that the media was so unfair and cruel to him. He didn’t have cancer, his nose wasn’t falling off, all those things are just fabrications, stupidities and lies. The pop icon is among angels right now, but his music will live forever.”

LL Cool J on Michael Jackson

http://www1.essence.com/n...funny_guy/

In between promoting his new partnership with Mastercard and his "Break In Your Jeans" campaign, which rewards cardholders with an all-expense paid trip to anywhere in the world and a pair of jeans to break in along the way, LL Cool J took some time to share with ESSENCE.com some of his fondest memories of Michael Jackson.

I've been listening to Michael Jackson since I was born. I watched The Jackson 5 cartoon and had the pajamas with the feet in the bottom that I'd wear while listening to "Dancing Machine."




The first time I met him was when I went to see him perform at Giants stadium. I was 18 years old and if I remember correctly, it was either one of my publicists or someone in the industry that hooked it up. I was definitely excited to meet him and when we talked, I told him I had loved his music since ‘a buh-buh buh buh-buh.' I started singing that song A-B-C and he started laughing. He was a real cool guy.

Me and Michael definitely had a friendly relationship. We recorded in the studio on quite a few different occasions. I remember one time in the studio, he was sitting up on the piano and I just sat there like a student talking with him about the "Smooth Criminal "video. He was explaining to me how he did that one dance move when he leans forward and joked that he had an Indian swami come in and do a ritual to make it happen. He had me going for like an hour and then he told me he was just kidding. He was a funny guy. I have other funny moments like that, but I don't want to make them too public. I'd rather keep them to myself. I will say, though, in the studio, he was very lighthearted and free and open to the creative process. He's a perfectionist, but he understood that true musical freedom and creativity comes from not being too serious.

After working in the studio and hanging out a few times, I approached him about clearing a sample of "Lady In My Life" for my song "Hey Lover." Him, Rod Temperton and Quincy Jones cleared a sample on my song. It was very well known that he didn't clear a lot of samples, so that was a big deal. I won a Grammy for that song and Michael made that possible for me.

He told me once that "Around the Way Girl" was one of his favorite songs because he like that ‘you got me shook up, shook down, shook out allyour lovin'...' , [which is from the Mary Janes Girls' "All Night Long,"] you know.

He made top-notch music for 40 years straight. He created a soundtrack to every part of our lives. He's like a bookmarker for a lot of people's lives. His music will continue to live on because he's a great artist. People should remember him as a guy who was truly gifted and shared the rewards of his gifts with others."



Read more: http://www1.essence.com/n...z0lVH5aMb8
[Edited 4/18/10 18:00pm]

MyLuv229 said:

Thanks for posting this. I really love reading stories like this.

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MyLuv229 said:

Back in 1984,I was such an MJ fanatic that I taped this commercial from the radio and played it all the time I liked the new lyrics that they came up with.

carlcranshaw said:

Without question,this is one of the BEST Jackson 5 tunes!! It's in my Top 5.

Vanilli said:

Sweet!

sag10 said:

hot

I haven't Listened to Michael in three months . Maybe I should start listening again.