MJJstudent said:

TD3 said:

See, I started out trying to be conciliatory to Jermaine but people like YOU pull me back in everytime.

SEE? I KNOW, RIGHT? y'all is sooooooooooooooo mean! HA!

It's all out of love.

TD3 said:

Timmy84 said:

UGH! Well by then Joe & Katherine would probably join Michael in the Pearly Gates by that time.

Maybe then those reunion plans would actually stop but knowing Jermaine's turning into Joseph, you're right. We'll probably see more "promised reunions".

Put it this way: if we see each other in line trying to purchase tickets for "this reunion", les pretend we don't see each other.

With me running up to ya'll and calling you out

Oooooh! there go TD3 buyin' tickets the Jackson 5 reunion show!

....and Michael gonna be up there giving you a sideeye

Aye ya'll, don't she know I ain't gonna be there?

bboy87 said:

TD3 said:

Put it this way: if we see each other in line trying to purchase tickets for "this reunion", les pretend we don't see each other.

With me running up to ya'll and calling you out

Oooooh! there go TD3 buyin' tickets the Jackson 5 reunion show!

....and Michael gonna be up there giving you a sideeye

Aye ya'll, don't she know I ain't gonna be there?

MJJstudent said:

TD3 said:

See, I started out trying to be conciliatory to Jermaine but people like YOU pull me back in everytime.

SEE? I KNOW, RIGHT? y'all is sooooooooooooooo mean! HA!

The flesh if weak . . . .

bboy87 said:

TD3 said:

Put it this way: if we see each other in line trying to purchase tickets for "this reunion", les pretend we don't see each other.

With me running up to ya'll and calling you out

Oooooh! there go TD3 buyin' tickets the Jackson 5 reunion show!

....and Michael gonna be up there giving you a sideeye

Aye ya'll, don't she know I ain't gonna be there?

See, there's always ONE person who's willing to bust you out.

That's alright.

Plan B: I'm wearing a damn disguise.

always tryin' to mess with a sista.

OVA.

More from the same show. At 2.33 in the video they show old clips from the 80's when Jermaine performed on the show on several occassions.

Here's Jermaine singing Sweetest Sweetest live on the show back in the day. Jermaine's lead vocals are live but the music and background vocals is prerecorded. His vocals are close to immaculate here. His voice cracks a few times but other than that very good.

[Edited 3/14/11 14:50pm]

Timmy84 said:

babynoz said:

I can usually defend Jermaine musically because he's a good singer and bass player with a respectable discography of his own but those two performances were way below par.

Jermaine is what I'd call "self defeating" in that he's had many opportunities to carve out a niche for himself and be successful in his own right, but he could never get past wanting to be Michael and have what Michael had. He's defeated because then and now he refuses to accept that he lacks that intangible "it" factor, which distinguishes stars from super-stars.

If he were less delusional and more practical like Tito, he could have earned a respectable living.

And before Michael, Jermaine was trying hard to be the company's new Marvin Gaye because Marvin had fallen out with the company (and with his wife, Anna Gordy, Berry's sister) but Jermaine failed in making that work so the "Prince of Motown" title was never really taken from Marvin.

Don Cornelius brings the subject about Jermaine being the next Marvin Gaye up here on Soul Train in 1972. Go to 2.26 in the clip.