new Michael Jackson video

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sooooo... has anyone seen it yet?

it premiered last night on some show here in NZ. but i was hungover and i fell asleep asnd missed it. am i a fool or what?

so anyone who has seen it... voice your views here. i'm DYING to know all about it! is he even more ridiculous looking than last time he made a comeback? whats the song like? etc

― di, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Video is long and of little interest. The credits seem to go on forever, so many people were involved. There's a scene in which Jacko kisses a woman and because you don't see his face during it I reckon he got a stunt double so he wouldn't have to get girls germs. There's some actiony scenes, but the song itself is crap. Heard it twice and can't remember a thing except the bits where he sings "You rock my world".

― EdwardO, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I watched it this morning, completely blurry eyed and hung-over.

Something with a 1930's gangster theme - Michael looks like he did in the Billie Jean video, with hat pulled well down over his face (or what's left of it). In the vid, he's pursued by 'criminals'. But naturally, he's innocent - it's because it's just all about that girl. That 'forbidden love'... (hm.) The whole thing plays into the long term 'Wacko Jacko' project of reclaiming the lost child- like 'innocence' of the Jackson Five days (of his own infancy) - a perverse Peter Pan syndrome, something beyond that - not merely unmanned by celeb stardom, but unable to grow up - mutating instead into a horrible monstrousity - exposing the underbelly of pop, media, mass marketed music, the childstar, etc. etc. etc.

Ian Penman summed it all up years ago - and nothing changed...

More generally, it was boring. The song, the idea - everything. It sounded so derivative - especially sitting next to Bootylicious. nothing but shite...

― Michael Dieter, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I reckon he got a stunt double
Where would you find someone who looks like Michael?

― nathalie, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

LE Toya

― anthony, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It wwas on Top of the Pops. It's okay, just MJ as a gangster, dancing about. Marlon Brando is in the video too. And I think Chris Tucker?...The song, pleasently forgettable.

― jel, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The video is v. underwhelming and old-fashioned, the song is a bland nothingness, but there is something incredibly compelling abt the absence of MJ's face - hidden in the shadow of his hat, only his mouth visible. Lots of MJ's vids are abt 'transformation' ('Thriller', 'Black and White'); this one seems to be abt eradication, invisibility and hiding. Scary.

― Andrew L, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I saw a bit of it last night on the telly in a pub. The song's alright-ish and the video's not too bad. It's not sickening in the way some of his more recent stuff was but it's not fantastic in the way lots of his earlier stuff was either.

He's still my favourite insane child-worrying megolamaniac freak though.

― jamesmichaelward, Sunday, 23 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Michael Jackson's new single is the non-event of the year. Bog-standard, instantly forgettable B-side stuff. It is indeed very suspicious that in the video his face is constantly obscured by his hat. He probably looks too scary. His clothes, shoes and dancing are very old-school MJ. Nothing new there, either. And Chris Tucker was only funny in The Fifth Element.

― JoB, Sunday, 23 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

its time for mr, jackson to grow up and do music that people of his age and his followers want to hear do something just once more that will last forever in our life time and will make us his followers proud to be a part of his era...

― alex toliver, Tuesday, 23 December 2003 02:57 (twenty-two years ago)

mick you cannot bring back the years past remember you can never be 5nor 35 again but you can be one of the most talented person in the world of music for grown-ups we need you..

― alex toliver, Tuesday, 23 December 2003 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)

This he hasn't done since the 80s.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

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