CD of the week: Michael Jackson' s MICHAEL

shishen04

CD of the week: Michael Jackson


One posthumous Michael Jackson album down, nine more to go

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MICHAEL JACKSON
MICHAEL
(SONY)
3 stars
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MICHAEL Jackson's life was a circus when he was alive. It's no wonder that's been amplified now he's gone too soon.This first posthumous album of unreleased material has been shrouded in mystery - again nothing new for Jackson.

His family are biting the hand that feeds; questioning the authenticity of this album while producers are defending the technical wizardry that turned unfinished vocal ideas into completed songs. The one thing Jackson was missing was a reliable force steering his creative decisions - like saying no to the Neptunes songs that became Justin Timberlake's Justified but yes to some of the unknown producers and songwriters here.

Hold My Hand is more Michael guesting on an Akon song rather than a duet, but at least it's a half-decent pop tune.

Hollywood Tonight is better than most of Invincible, the album it was left off - all Teddy Riley swingbeat and MJ beatboxing. Keep Your Head Up is a sweet inspirational moment, (I Like) The Way You Love Me was released as a demo six years ago; now posthumously polished it showcases his voice's flexibility.

Low-key ballad Best of Joy is reportedly the last song Jackson worked on: it sounds like a demo pumped up with studio steroids. Arguably the best thing is Thriller outtake Much Too Soon - a flashback to the vintage pre-insanity Jackson of Ben.

Not a classic Jackson album but it was never meant to be. With another nine albums under contract, there's already a music lab somewhere working on the next Frankenstein of an album from what's left in the vaults - hopefully the will.i.am or RedOne (Gaga) material.

Look at the precedents - Elvis Presley dueted with Jessica Mauboy. How long before Blanket's singing with his dad?

出自heraldsun.com
是否赞同这样的评价呢？ 我觉得给3颗心确实算比较中肯了， 但不苟同比无敌专辑还好的观点。

rhyme

大致意思看明白了  挺客观的  毕竟不是迈迷写的嘛 *n*

kanbor32

他没说比INVINCIBLE好啊

Christina4896

Look at the precedents - Elvis Presley dueted with Jessica Mauboy. How long before Blanket's singing with his dad?
纠结……

晓涵

每首歌的评论都很简明，总结性发言很空泛。

gummykitty

这篇评论的措辞充满敌意。什么叫pre-insanity？我看着就生气

M_W

这篇文章的语言是够辛辣的！

说 HT 比 Invincible 中大多数的歌要好。

对MJ家人用了这样的语言“His family are biting the hand that feeds”，是说MJ家人恩将仇报吧？被MJ供养着，却反咬一口。

最后一句话挺感伤的，有朝一日Blanket 会和他的父亲一起歌唱吗？

虽然文章中一些语言不中听，就当了解一下各家之言，换个角度思考问题。

谢谢LZ分享！

yanmilin

His family are biting the hand that feeds; questioning the authenticity of this album while producers are defending the technical wizardry that turned unfinished vocal ideas into completed songs.

Morphine

说些有的没的，为什么好为什么不好，理由一点都没有，全是结论性的语句。
WHY is hollywood tonight better than most of Invincible? Give me a reason! Or JUST u THINK it is!

Morphine

很多所谓的音乐评论完全不是从音乐本身去评论，而是专注于与音乐相关的背景。这种评论有其优点，可以帮助我们了解一首歌曲的创作过程，但是但凡脱离了音乐本质的评论，都是空洞的。这首歌曲妙在何处？为什么在这一桥段加入这种声效？这种配乐为什么精彩？这些才是音乐评论该关注的，不然跟八卦有什么两样

shishen04

各位的评论很有见地且很受用 对新专辑发出的各种不同的声音对于麦考其实并不重要了 对于我们同样也是 这样稍显纷乱的气氛里，我想起龔格爾这位模仿者的博文 “他死了，但是沒人真的有這種感覺。只有在你靜靜沉思的時候，你才會想起這真的是一個事實。那個無敵的MJ永遠無敵于世，但那個孤單的MJ卻孤單的死去了。”纷扰不停后 大家是否有再聆听这位大师的新老作品呢?有否真正去从自己开始，试着去改变这个世界，make it a better place呢？
逝者如斯 我辈共勉

shishen04 发表于 2010-12-16 22:06
各位的评论很有见地且很受用 对新专辑发出的各种不同的声音对于麦考其实并不重要了 对于我们同样也是 这样稍 ...

“他死了，但是沒人真的有這種感覺。只有在你靜靜沉思的時候，你才會想起這真的是一個事實”的确 尤其在这个网络时代 尤其对于离他那么远的我们 每天能看到他 听到他 谈论他 一如往昔 但 他真的已经离开了 这是我们的不幸还是悲哀 抑或兼而有之 静静沉思的时候 有泪滚落

AGNES

我從本週一新碟發行後每天喋碟不休地連續狂聽11個小時(工作需要), 至今仍沒有丁點生厭感覺, 反是越聽越雞動...越聽越爽爆, 終於前天回家後再暴聽4小時才願去睡覺....天天在聽但還在感覺不較時間給我聽....這種激情很久沒出現了.....