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Twenty-First Century Renaissance
By Armond White
Michael Jackson’s renaissance (occasioned by his death past June at age 50) is the most encouraging event to happen in pop culture over the last quarter century. All summer long now, every where you go, Jackson’s music rises from car speakers, p.a. systems, spills out of strangers’ headphones. It’s a better day when “Pretty Young Thing” compliments the sunshine or contradicts a rainstorm. And yet, the haters persist: after reining-in its cynicism in response to the public’s grief and surge of interest in MJ’s music, the media vultures are going back to their trash-talk and calumny. But popular affection for Jackson continues; resistance to media fiat is proof of democratic good will in action.
This sudden recovery of Jackson’s song catalog comes from a remarkable personal need: In wanting to remember the good times – from the astounding youthful energy of The Jackson Five’s “I Want You Back,” “ABC,” “The Love You Save,” “I’ll Be There” and “Ben” to the phenomenal all-pleasing Thriller – the public’s instinctive pop-art retrieval goes deeper than nostalgia. It is true that different stages of Michael Jackson’s music career have accompanied various events in world history and, especially, private mem
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Michael Jackson: Why the weirdness WAS the greatness
For decades, there have been two Michael Jacksons: the whirling-dervish pop genius and the mysterious, childlike, obsessive, tormented, at times freakish private soul. In the weeks since he died, both dimensions of Michael — the artist and the man — have been paraded and discussed to an exhaustive degree. You could argue that each side has been raised to the level of mythology. Yet what isn’t so often talked about is the inseverable connection between the two. From the outset of Michael Jackson’s career, his extreme and heightened distance from the “normal” world has been one of the cornerstones of his art. Below are some of the ways that Michael’s “weirdness” was, in fact, always right at the soul of his musical and cultural power.
The Young Michael’s Vocal Phrasings. At the memorial service last Tuesday, Smokey Robinson, recalling his reaction to the first time he heard the 10-year-old Michael sing a version of “Who’s Lovin’ You” that outdid Smokey’s, acknowledged the dizzyingly precocious, almost nature-defying quality of Michael’s ability to sing lyrics rooted in the experience of adulthood and to interpret those lyrics exactly as an adult would sing them. For me, the line that has always made the prepubescent Mi