52nd Annual Grammy Award Picks

The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards

Tonight at 8PM EST the 52nd annual Grammy awards will take the air on CBS. When there is so much incredible talent hoping to add Grammy’s to their trophy case you can expect a very memorable night. 

   

The night is jam packed with performances that will no doubt go down in history. But perhaps the biggest moment of the night will be the Michael Jackson tribute. Not only will several top recording artists be singing in tribute to Michael, but it will be the first awards show to broadcast a performance in 3-D. You can pick up 3-D glasses free at any Target store.    

I scoured the list of nominees and below are my picks. These are not necessarily who I would like to win personally, but who I think will ultimately end up with the statue. Feel free to leave your picks in the comment box below.    

Record Of The Year     

• Halo
  Beyoncé
  Track from: I Am… Sasha Fierce
  [Music World Music / Columbia]
• I Gotta Feeling
  The Black Eyed Peas
  [Interscope]
• Use Somebody
  Kings Of Leon
  [RCA Records]
• Poker Face
  Lady Gaga
  Track from: The Fame
  [Streamline/Interscope/Konlive/Cherrytree]
• You Belong With Me
  Taylor Swift
  [Big Machine Records]

Album Of The Year

    

• I Am… Sasha Fierce
  Beyoncé
  [Music World Music / Columbia]
• The E.N.D.
  The Black Eyed Peas
  [Interscope Records]
• The Fame
  Lady Gaga
  [Streamline/Interscope/Konlive/Cherrytree]
• Big Whiskey And The Groogrux King
  Dave Matthews Band
  [RCA Records / Bama Rags Recordings, LLC.]
• Fearless
  Taylor Swift
  [Big Machine Records]

     

 Song Of The Year     

• Poker Face
  Lady Gaga & RedOne, songwriters (Lady Gaga)
  Track from: The Fame
  [Streamline/Interscope/Konlive/Cherrytree; Publishers: Stefani Germanotta p/k/a Lady Gaga, Sony/ATV Songs/House of Gaga Publishing/GloJoe Music, Sony/ATV Songs/RedOne Productions.]
• Pretty Wings
  Hod David & Musze, songwriters (Maxwell)
  Track from: Blacksummers’ Night
  [Columbia; Publishers: Sony/ATV Tunes/Muszewell, EMI April Music, Ben Ami Music.]
• Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
  Thaddis Harrell, Beyoncé Knowles, Terius Nash & Christopher Stewart, songwriters (Beyoncé)
  Track from: I Am… Sasha Fierce
  [Music World Music / Columbia; Publishers: Songs of Peer/March 9th Publishing, 2082 Music/WB Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Tunes, Suga Wuga Music, B-Day Publishing/EMI April Music.]
• Use Somebody
  Caleb Followill, Jared Followill, Matthew Followill & Nathan Followill, songwriters (Kings Of Leon)
  [RCA Records; Publishers: Martha Street Music/Songs of Combustion Music/Music of Windswept, Followill Music/Songs of Combustion Music/Music of Windswept, McFearless Music/Bug Music, Coffee, Tea or Me Publishing/Bug Music.]
• You Belong With Me
  Liz Rose & Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift)
  Track from: Fearless
  [Big Machine Records; Publishers: Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, Taylor Swift Music/Potting Shed Music, Barbara Orbison World Publishing.]

 Best New Artist     

• Zac Brown Band
• Keri Hilson
• MGMT
• Silversun Pickups
• The Ting Tings

    

      

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance     

• Hometown Glory
  Adele
  Track from: 19
  [XL/Columbia]
• Halo
  Beyoncé
  Track from: I Am… Sasha Fierce
  [Music World Music / Columbia]
• Hot N Cold
  Katy Perry
  [Capitol]
• Sober
  Pink
  Track from: Funhouse
  [LaFace Records]
• You Belong With Me
  Taylor Swift
  Track from: Fearless
  [Big Machine Records]

 Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals
(For established duos or groups, with vocals. Singles or Tracks only.)    

• I Gotta Feeling
  The Black Eyed Peas
  Track from: The E.N.D.
  [Interscope Records]
• We Weren’t Born To Follow
  Bon Jovi
  [Island]
• Never Say Never
  The Fray
  Track from: The Fray
  [Epic]
• Sara Smile
  Daryl Hall & John Oates
  Track from: Live At The Troubadour
  [Shout! Factory]
• Kids
  MGMT
  Track from: Oracular Spectacular
  [Columbia]
   

      

Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals     

• Sea Of Heartbreak
  Rosanne Cash & Bruce Springsteen
  [Manhattan]
• Love Sex Magic
  Ciara & Justin Timberlake
  Track from: Fantasy Ride
  [LaFace Records]
• Lucky
  Jason Mraz & Colbie Caillat
  Track from: We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.
  [Atlantic]
• Baby, It’s Cold Outside
  Willie Nelson & Norah Jones
  Track from: American Classic
  [Blue Note]
• Breathe
  Taylor Swift & Colbie Caillat
  Track from: Fearless
  [Big Machine Records]

Best Pop Vocal Album     

• The E.N.D.
  The Black Eyed Peas
  [Interscope Records]
• Breakthrough
  Colbie Caillat
  [Universal Republic Records]
• All I Ever Wanted
  Kelly Clarkson
  [RCA Records / 19 Recordings LLC./ S Records]
• The Fray
  The Fray
  [Epic]
• Funhouse
  Pink
  [LaFace Records]

 Best Dance Recording     

• Boom Boom Pow
  The Black Eyed Peas
  will.i.am & Jean Baptiste, producers; Dylan Dresdow, mixer
  Track from: The E.N.D.
  [Interscope Records]
• When Love Takes Over
  David Guetta & Kelly Rowland
  David Guetta & Frederic Riesterer, producers; Veronica Ferraro, mixer
  Track from: One Love
  [Astralwerks]
• Poker Face
  Lady Gaga
  RedOne, producer; Robert Orton, RedOne & Dave Russell, mixers
  Track from: The Fame
  [Streamline/Interscope/Konlive/Cherrytree]
• Celebration
  Madonna
  [Warner Bros.]
• Womanizer
  Britney Spears
  K. Briscoe, producer; Serban Ghenea, mixer
  Track from: Circus
  [Jive/Zomba]

Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals     

• Can’t Find My Way Home
  Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood
  Track from: Live From Madison Square Garden
  [Reprise]
• Life In Technicolor II
  Coldplay
  Track from: Prospekt’s March EP
  [Capitol]
• 21 Guns
  Green Day
  Track from: 21st Century Breakdown
  [Reprise]
• Use Somebody
  Kings Of Leon
  [RCA Records]
• I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight
  U2
  Track from: No Line On The Horizon
  [Interscope]

Best Rock Song     

• The Fixer
  Matt Cameron, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready & Eddie Vedder, songwriters (Pearl Jam)
  [Monkeywrench; Publishers: Innocent Bystander, Jumpin' Cat Music, Theory of Color, Write Treatage Music.]
• I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight
  Bono, Adam Clayton, The Edge & Larry Mullen Jr., songwriters (U2)
  Track from: No Line On The Horizon
  [Interscope; Publishers: Universal Music Publishing, Upala Music.]
• 21 Guns
  Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt & Tré Cool, songwriters (Green Day)
  Track from: 21st Century Breakdown
  [Reprise; Publishers: WB Music Corp./Green Daze Music.]
• Use Somebody
  Caleb Followill, Jared Followill, Matthew Followill & Nathan Followill, songwriters (Kings Of Leon)
  [RCA Records; Publishers: Martha Street Music/Songs of Combustion Music/Music of Windswept, Followill Music/Songs of Combustion Music/Music of Windswept, McFearless Music/Bug Music, Coffee, Tea or Me Publishing/Bug Music.]
• Working On A Dream
  Bruce Springsteen, songwriter (Bruce Springsteen)
  Track from: Working On A Dream
  [Columbia; Publisher: Bruce Springsteen]
   

     

Best Rock Album     

• Black Ice
  AC/DC
  [Columbia]
• Live From Madison Square Garden
  Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood
  [Reprise/Duck]
• 21st Century Breakdown
  Green Day
  [Reprise]
• Big Whiskey And The Groogrux King
  Dave Matthews Band
  [RCA Records / Bama Rags Recordings, LLC.]
• No Line On The Horizon
  U2
  [Interscope]

 Best Female R&B Vocal Performance     

• Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
  Beyoncé
  Track from: I Am… Sasha Fierce
  [Music World Music/Columbia]
• It Kills Me
  Melanie Fiona
  [SRC/Universal Motown]
• That Was Then
  Lalah Hathaway
  Track from: Self Portrait
  [Stax Records/Concord Music Group]
• Goin’ Thru Changes
  Ledisi
  Track from: Turn Me Loose
  [Verve Forecast]
• Lions, Tigers & Bears
  Jazmine Sullivan
  [J Records]

Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals     

• Blame It
  Jamie Foxx & T-Pain
  [J Records]
• Chocolate High
  India.Arie & Musiq Soulchild
  Track from: Testimony: Vol. 2, Love & Politics
  [Soulbird/Universal Republic]
• Ifuleave
  Musiq Soulchild & Mary J. Blige
  Track from: OnMyRadio
  [Atlantic]
• Higher Ground
  Robert Randolph & The Clark Sisters
  Track from: Oh Happy Day
  [EMI Gospel]
• Love Has Finally Come At Last
  Calvin Richardson & Ann Nesby
  Track from: Facts Of Life The Soul Of Bobby Womack
  [Shanachie Entertainment Corp.]

     

Best Contemporary R&B Album     

• I Am… Sasha Fierce
  Beyoncé
  [Music World Music/Columbia]
• Intuition
  Jamie Foxx
  [J Records]
• The Introduction Of Marcus Cooper
  Pleasure P
  [Swagga Ent./Atlantic]
• Ready
  Trey Songz
  [Songbook/Atlantic]
• Thr33 Ringz
  T-Pain
  [Jive Records]

 Best Rap/Sung Collaboration     

• Ego
  Beyoncé & Kanye West
  [Music World Music/Columbia]
• Knock You Down
  Keri Hilson, Kanye West & Ne-Yo
  Track from: In A Perfect World…
  [MMG/Zone 4/Interscope Records]
• Run This Town
  Jay-Z, Rihanna & Kanye West
  [Roc Nation]
• I’m On A Boat
  The Lonely Island & T-Pain
  Track from: Incredibad
  [Universal Republic Records]
• Dead And Gone
  T.I. & Justin Timberlake
  Track from: Paper Trail
  [Grand Hustle/Atlantic]

Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals     

• Cowgirls Don’t Cry
  Brooks & Dunn
  Track from: Cowboy Town
  [Arista Nashville]
• Chicken Fried
  Zac Brown Band
  Track from: The Foundation
  [Home Grown/Big Picture/Atlantic]
• I Run To You
  Lady Antebellum
  Track from: Lady Antebellum
  [Capitol Records Nashville]
• Here Comes Goodbye
  Rascal Flatts
  Track from: Unstoppable
  [Lyric Street Records]
• It Happens
  Sugarland
  Track from: Love On The Inside
  [Mercury Records]
   

      

Best Comedy Album     

• Back From The Dead
  Spinal Tap
  [The Label Industry/Artist2Market Distribution]
• A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift Of All!
  Stephen Colbert
  [Comedy Central Records]
• Internet Leaks
  “Weird Al” Yankovic
  [Volcano]
• My Weakness Is Strong
  Patton Oswalt
  [Degenerate/Warner Bros.]
• Suckin’ It For The Holidays
  Kathy Griffin
  [Music With A Twist]
• Tall, Dark & Chicano
  George Lopez
  [Comedy Central Records]

 Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media     

• The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (Disc 1)
  Alexandre Desplat, composer
  [Concord Records]
• Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
  Nicholas Hooper, composer
  [New Line Records]
• Milk
  Danny Elfman, composer
  [Decca]
• Star Trek
  Michael Giacchino, composer
  [Varèse Sarabande]
• Up
  Michael Giacchino, composer
  [Walt Disney Records]

   

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Michael Jackson's Choreographer Teaches Dancing Filipino Prisoners 'This Is It' Routine

Michael Jackson was a fan of the more than 1,500 Filipino inmates who performed the choreography for his video “Thriller” in 2007 and created a viral hit.

Jackson watched the videos of Cebu Provincial Detention And Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) prisoners during breaks from his tour rehearsals for “This Is It,” his choreographer Travis Payne said.

Payne recently contacted Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia, and arranged to make a surprise visit to meet the performers in the high security prison, the Philippines’ Manila Bulletin reported.

Payne spent two hours on Sun., Jan. 17, and Mon., Jan. 18, teaching the dancers the routines from Jackson’s posthumous “This Is It” film.
“The Drill” is the last scene Payne and Jackson worked on together before the pop icon died in June. The clip was released over the weekend, days before the Tues., Jan. 26 release of the “This Is It” DVD.

The CPDRC performance videos of Jackson’s “Thriller,” “Dangerous,” and the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A,” among others, are all well done.

But Payne, who worked with Jackson for more than 10 years, was able to take their performance to new heights. Their rendition of Jackson’s “They Don’t Really Care About Us” is comparable to the scene in “This Is It.”
The “This Is It” version is a highlight of the film. It features a group of dancers who were digitally replicated to appear as an army. Payne’s work with the CPDRC men brought this virtual sequence to real life.

The inmates were not initially receptive to participating in the choreographed dances, said Bryon Garcia, a security consultant for the prison. He suggested the activity to keep the prisoners busy during their downtime, the Manila Bulletin reported.

According to the New York Times, Bryon decided to post videos of the prisoners dancing online to publicize some of the positive changes he implemented at Cebu since joining the staff in 2004.

[Via http://cherokeebillie.wordpress.com]

Jackson's dad calls for medical records

Michael Jackson’s father wants to investigate the death of his son and has filed papers in Los Angeles, demanding release of medical records.

Joe Jackson is convinced the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Centre documents will help him determine if anyone was to blame for the King of Pop’s death and how much he should sue them for.

Family members, including Joe, have accused the singer’s personal physician Conrad Murray of wrongful death of the star, but police have yet to charge the medic with any wrongdoing and he has maintained he’s innocent.

Joe Jackson’s lawyer filed papers in Los Angeles County Superior Court Friday in which he claimed: “The UCLA records will permit Joe to determine with medical experts and then present to this court, how much support he needs to pay for the prosecution of his wrongful death action against those responsible for his son’s death.”

Michael was pronounced dead on arrival at the medical centre.

[Via http://gelaxraj.wordpress.com]

A Stranger in Moscow

Stranger in Moscow

Inspired by his first visit to Russia, No Stranger in Moscow has a rainy day lull that summons up a hundred thousand poems. The blustery imagery is brilliant. Michael Jackson’s vocals here reach the most incredible highs and lows. He surpasses himself, on every single line. It’s like sleight of hand, a trick of the light. How can MJ upstage himself at every treble?

Those who dissed, dismissed, or failed to notice Blood on the Dance Floor did indeed miss some of Jackson’s most mature work- “Morphine” was also on there, also perfect, but much different from this song, though in a sense both of them are funerary.  “No Stranger in Moscow” is ultimately a rainy day lullaby.

“Contrary to what many eulogists have claimed … it wasn’t all downhill from Thriller,” writes Andy Guess in Goodbye Billie Jean: the Meaning of Michael Jackson. “Michael Jackson reached the very height of international fame with his 1991 album Dangerous, released less than a month before the fall of the Soviet Union and more popular in many countries – and for a longer time – than it was in the United States.”

Jackson was the first Western pop star to perform in post-Soviet Russia. It was raining then, just like in the song. He was hours late, and his fans waited in a torrential downpour. Jackson performed his heart out in the deluge, using extra staff to sweep the water off of the stage during the show. Fans painted his name on a statue of Karl Marx.

You have to keep in mind that Jackson’s music was illegal in the Soviet Union, something that had to be sold as part of the black market. His album Dangerous came out just before the fall of the Soviet Union, so the Dangerous explosion was hugely symbolic of freedom and love to his Russian fans.

“ I was wandering in the rain…Mask of life, feelin’ insane…Swift and sudden fall from grace…Sunny days seem far away…KGB was doggin’ me…Take my name and just let me be…

How does it feel? How does it feel? When you’re alone, and you’re cold inside…Like a stranger in Moscow…We’re talkin’ danger, we’re talkin’ danger, baby…I’m livin’ lonely, baby…”

The song exquisitely captured how alien he felt wherever he went, how lonely it was inside so much love. The song follows his “swift and sudden fall from grace” when the first set of child abuse allegations came out. “Here abandoned in my fame/Armageddon of the brain.” We’re talking danger, baby, yes we are: Jackson was sure “they” were trying to kill him, but it was dismissed as incoherent, paranoid insanity from an aging, drug addled pop star. Of course, drugs and addiction are often used to keep someone under another’s control, or the opportunity to control is seized if that person is already vulnerable from drugs.

In any event, we may never know the particulars, but No Stranger in Moscow is a gorgeous and revelatory song, underrated, a gift to Russian fans, offering them something personal.

After his death, shrines appeared all over Russia, and fans gathered to comfort each other and mourn. Plans were made after This Is It was released to stage an MJ impersonation contest in St. Petersburg, and in Ufa, fans planned to launch into the sky with balloons a video with their wishes for Jackson.

Russian fan Pavel Talalaev allegedly attempted suicide very soon after Jackson’s death, snapping angrily when he regained consciousness in hospital. “I don’t know why the doctors saved me. I want to be with Michael, and I will kill myself anyway.” Pavel makes his living as one of Jackson’s impersonators. He has even had plastic surgeries to look more like his idol. “He was so popular in Russia at the end of the 80s that everyone cheered when they saw me dressed up like Michael somewhere in the subway.”

Michael Jackson was indeed adored the world over, yet the song he wrote about Moscow was a testament to how lonely it is at the top, especially when you hit rock bottom.

Lorette C. Luzajic

Lorette C. Luzajic is the editor of Goodbye, Billie Jean: the Meaning of Michael Jackson. Find out more about this book and her three others by clicking here.

[Via http://extrememichaeljackson.wordpress.com]

The famous Dancing Inmates

The famous “Dancing Inmates” from Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, a maximum security prison in the Philippines, were recently treated to a visit by Michael Jackson’s long-time choreographer Travis Payne and dancers Daniel Celebre and Dres Reid to learn performances from This Is It.

Sony Pictures’ Fritz Friedman tells USA TODAY’s Mike Snider, “We thought it would be a great idea to pay homage to MJ on the occasion of the release of This Is It by going to Cebu and having Travis work with the dancers to create this piece which is from the film.”

Unfortunately, it wasn’t done in time to go on the DVD and Blu-Ray discs, which are out today. But Sony Pictures DVD did post this on YouTube.

The Michael Jackson documentary “This Is It” only showed the King of Pop dancing to “They Don’t Care About Us” with a computer-generated army for his backdrop. But with the help of the famous inmates in Cebu, that army comes to life.

Some 1,500 inmates from the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center performed the number with Travis Payne, Jackson’s long-time choreographer.

This Is It was created from more than 100 hours of behind-the-scenes footage shot between March and June this year while Michael Jackson rehearsed for his 50 sold-out concerts in London. He died on June 25 before he could perform in these concerts, which were slated for kick-off on July 8.
The number was called “The Drill,” the last choreography Payne and Jackson collaborated on before the King of Pop died in June 2009.

The performance was uploaded on the video-sharing site YouTube last January 22. Accessed on the morning of January 26, the video clip had already been viewed 417,610 times.

The number also showed the inmates forming a huge peace sign, possibly in remembrance of Jackson, who advocated world peace. Dancers Daniel Celebre and Dres Reid also joined the inmates, who wore black “This Is It” shirts.

Payne visited the Cebu penitentiary last week to teach the inmates “The Drill,” which will be part of the Blu-Ray and DVD copies of “This Is It.”

Following the visit, a newspaper report quoted Payne as saying that “it is a wonderful partnership in just spreading love and peace. I think that with Jackson at the center of everything. It is really a blessing to be here.”

The Cebu inmates gained fame in 2007 after their performance of Jackson’s “Thriller” landed on cyberspace.

When Jackson died, the inmates staged another tribute to the King of Pop, where they danced to a Michael Jackson medley.

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Dancing Inmates - Michael Jackson's This Is It

I don’t think there’s many people that haven’t already seen the youtube clips of the Filipino “Dancing Inmates”. They’ve done a variety of dancing to various songs and even did a tribute to Michael Jackson after he passed away last year.

This time they’re back and with the help of Michael Jacksons long-time choreographer Travis Payne and dancers Daniel Celebre and Dres Reid they were taught the performances from ‘This Is It’.

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#127 Uncommon Finds

#127/365, originally uploaded by tigerlily4865.

Every year when we go to the Book Fair we find something interesting in the pages of one book.

This time is was a ticket to Michael Jackon’s 1996 World Tour ‘History’. Well it really is history with the passing of Jackson last year.

Dave wondered how much something like this would go for on eBay?

I wondered if the person who originally owned the book was doing field research on whether or not Jackson may have been an alien in disguise?

[Via http://jodicleghorn.wordpress.com]

[new era] best ~third universe~

anyone as excited as i am for this very musical week? koda kumi is back for her 10th anniversary with a new best album! anyone who follows kumi knows that her “best” albums sell like hotcakes–and i’m really looking forward to this one! it includes two of my personal favorites” BUT and TABOO. to make this album a double whammy, kumi has packaged her 8th studio album, UNIVERSE along with it!

from the tracks i’ve heard from UNIVERSE, they utterly blow my mind! this is going to be an outstanding year for music! everyone has almost evolved to another level of artistry, and i’m so glad i’m on the receiving end of it! it inspires me to no end.

the video for can we go back is one word: WOW. koda kumi is already fun, quirky and unpredictable (as she often switches from cuddly cute to overt sex appeal). but as she combined her sexy style with classic mj moves (my favorite male artist), and perfect cinematography–it rocked my world! it was so raw, she could be an outstanding actress. so many different clothing/hairstyles, the fashion was on point, the choreography, makeup…okay, i’ll contain myself now!

i wish i lived in japan now so i could pick up this album! damn america! (i wouldn’t be surprised if she was the next american crossover either.)

the video for “can we go back” is below!

koda kumi: can we go back

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Grammys to Honor Michael Jackson with All-Star Tribute, 3-D Mini-Movie

Michael Jackson will be honored with a celebration fit for a king. The Grammys will stage a star-studded tribute to the late legend at this month’s show. Usher, Celine Dion, Jennifer Hudson, Smokey Robinson, and Carrie Underwood will come together, along with the voice of Michael Jackson, in a performance for the King of Pop at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards. The show will also feature a never-before-seen 3-D mini-movie for “Earth Song” that was created for Jackson’s “This Is It” concerts. “It was one of the most important portions of the concert tour to Michael and when Michael saw the film for the first time at his last rehearsal, there were tears in his eyes,” says Ken Ehrlich, Grammy co-executive producer and longtime Jackson associate. In order to enjoy the 3-D TV experience at home, Target stores nationwide will offer free 3-D glasses from January 24-31. Those in the audience at Staples Center will also be able to share in the 3-D viewing with their own glasses. Previously announced performers for the 52nd Grammy Awards include Beyoncé, Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga, Maxwell, Pink, and Taylor Swift. Music’s biggest night will broadcast live from Los Angeles on Sunday, January 31, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

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Michael Jackson Worships the Devil

Just found out the disturbing news that Michael Jackson is a Satanist.

According to Dcsfinest2000:

“I believe if you are a fan of micheal jackson and sing along with his songs you should at least know who his savior is and you also should know what you are singing . Most people don’t even know what they are singing. Micheal Jackson played a great part in converting christians to satanism threw his songs and dance. The more you sing his music the stronger Satan gets . Just as if you were giving praise to Jesus Christ . The best part of micheal Jackson job writing songs that are for Satan and making people praise Satan without even knowing what they are doing . If you want an example of what I’m talking about, google the lyrics to micheal jackson song ” Blame it on the Boogie”. You will see a prime example of what micheal jackson craft was.

Well, I just had to look it up right away to see if the devil was hiding in some good old fashioned disco. And sure enough he is.

This magic music grooves me, that dirty rhythm fools me
The devil’s gotten to me through this dance
I’m full of funky fever, a fire burns inside me
Boogie’s got me in a super trance

Don’t blame it on the sunshine
Don’t blame it on the moonlight
Don’t blame it on the good times
Blame it on the boogie

This line was particularly Satanic:

I just can’t (Woo!) control my feet

The only reasons dancing was ever a sin were 1. because black people did it and because drums were so rooted in African history. Jazz and blues were Satanic for the same reason. and 2. because it had something to do with sex. Which also had something to do with black people.

Dancing was not always a sin, believe it or not, not even in the Bible. It became a sin in Calvinist, Protestant, and Puritan denominations, showing up sporadically from 1500 forward. Other sins were owning playing cards, reading poetry, attending theatre, reading literature, cinema, courting, and birth control.

More Michael Jackson this way.

[Via http://extrememichaeljackson.wordpress.com]

Greatest Show on Earth

Well a few things have happened namely tweets from the Jack5ons and JFD coming to a close that have made me think… doubt….question.

For a moment I doubted too then I remembered… MJ wanted his life to be the Greatest Show on Earth.

So… every great show has actors.  Anything those actors do and say are with a part… they are not lying… they are acting.

So is that what’s happening here?  And how would people who believe that MJ has died ever handle the truth.  Would they end up hating the Jack5ons for what they’ve done?

Which leads me to this article: http://www.copyblogger.com/pt-barnum-online-publicity/

A few highlights:

• When Barnum pulled one over on you, he told you… and then made sure you left with a smile on your face.
• every once in a while, you might try something completely off the wall and gain big traction, as long as you find a way to deliver value beyond the hype.
• Barnum always thought big. When people told him his plans would never work, he didn’t give up—he simply resolved to make even bigger plans.
• P.T. Barnum knew the value of personal allies. The fact that Barnum had people like Mark Twain to help him promote his latest efforts demonstrates why having prominent new media friends makes sense in today’s world
• Most people can come up with something outrageous. But is there a payoff for the audience that makes it worth doing?

So maybe that’s what MJ needs to make sure of… not only do we get the why but we VALUE the lesson.  When everyone sees the value… then the lesson will be learned and the masses will be receptive to a return.  We need to spread the message everywhere re: what we have gained from MJ’s “death”.  How our lives have bettered.  We have to get mainstream media talking about how MJ fans have not only changed personally but changed the world around them.

I’m open to ideas everyone!

[Via http://lilwendy.wordpress.com]

Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon drum cover by trout - markustroutus54 youtube

Sex on Fire – Kings of Leon drum cover by trout – markustroutus54 youtube

Here is a great song to chill to while your working on organizing your character profiles for your fiction novels.

I like to have music on in the background.

It takes away the boredom of working by yourself.

Makes the day go faster too!

Linda Randall

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UNBREAKABLE

Future Funk Alliance = Future Artistic Movement = Unbreakable Entertainment

Okay, so we had to alter the name a few times but I think we finally have something that we can stick with.  If you don’t already know the story behind why the name changed then I will do my best to explain it.

We originally started off with the Name Future Funk Alliance.  The group was originally formed to strengthen the local dancing community.  We wanted to educate and teach other genres of movement and dance.

Eventually we wanted to expand into different areas of the arts (video, photography, music, spoken word, design, etc…).  We wanted to make the Future Funk Alliance a group that reaches out to all artists.  Ones that were willing to share their ideas and  knowledge.  We want to see artists from different backgrounds collaborating.

We decided to change the name from the Future Funk Alliance to the Future Artistic Movement because we thought that it was a name that represented all artists as opposed to just dancers and musicians.  Shortly after changing the name we ran into another obstacle.  Apparently another group had a similar name to the Future Artistic Movement.

After discovering this we decided to go back to the drawing board.  We spent many hours talking about things we wanted to accomplish and our goals as a group.  One of our first decisions was to label the group as an entertainment company.  Mainly for one reason, it is more marketable.  What I mean by that is performances, shows, and events would be easier to market and promote labeled under an entertainment company as opposed to a crew or group name. Once we decided to make it an entertainment company we just had to find a name.

We came up with several different names before coming to a final conclusion.  For inspiration I turned to someone who has never let me down, Michael Jackson.  I went through a list of Michael Jackson quotes and songs to see if I could come up with anything at all.  Finally I came across the album Invincible.  While going through the songs on the album there was one track that stood out, Unbreakable.

Painting of Michael Jackson

I thought it was a great name and it just seemed like a perfect fit.  The last year was a learning year for me and I had a lot of obstacles to overcome.  To get through the struggles of life you must have an UNBREAKABLE will.  Life will try to throw many obstacles in your way but it’s how you deal with these obstacles that defines who you are as a person.

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Que (DAY 26) Covers Michael Jackson's <i>Human Nature</i> (Lyric FAIL)

Que, formerly of Day 26, attempts to stay relevant by posting videos via YouTube. His latest one is him covering Michael Jackson’s Human Nature and Billy Preston’s You Are So Beautiful. Usually, I don’t even give the sense of hearing to individuals who try MJ tunes but he sounds good, for real!

However, Que pulled an Alicia Keys‘ (who knew NONE of the words to Jackson’s Butterflies on her Billboard LIVE concert) moment. He says, “Hear her voice, shake my window… sweet seducing shines“. Michael’s lyrics read “sweet seducing sighs” A re-read is in order!

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Michael Jackson's Death Officially Ruled As Homicide

Michael Jackson’s death certificate has been amended to include “homicide” as the official cause of death, reflecting the results of a 6-month police investigation. The original certificate that was issued on July 7th, 2009, just days after Jackson’s death, did not include a cause of death.

Dr. Conrad Murray, the physician who administered Propofol to Jackson, is expected to be charged and prosecuted for gross negligence for his direct role in Jackson’s death. Murry has already hired a lawyer who specializes in Propofol cases, and continues to deny any responsibility for killing the pop star.

More details and a copy of the updated certificate are available here.

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MILEY CYRUS HAS BEEN AND GONE......

Miley spent New Year’s with her Aussie boyfriend Liam Hemsworth at music festival  ‘Pyramid Rock’ in Phillip Island.

After plenty of rumours she was in town and finally photographic proof of the couple in the flesh yesterday, Miley was greeted by plenty of fans and a Channel Ten news crew. Channel Ten reported that paparazzi had been tailing her for about 7 days, which is highly unlikely as photos didn’t surface of the star until yesterday.

nP-

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Michael Jackson Was A Fan Of Lady Gaga

As if Lady Gaga didn’t have enough to be proud of already in recent years, there is one more thing that just might put her over that precipice into full out giddy-headed full-of-herself-ness (if I was her, anyway ). It turns out that Michael Jackson, probably the most cited inspiration for other pop acts today, was a huge fan of hers, says Travis Payne, Michael Jackson’s choreographer.

In a recent interview, Travis was asked about what artists Michael Jackson was interested in colloborating with before his death in June, to which he replied that he had suggested various people to Michael that they both thought were cool. However, Michael himself told Travis that he’d love to work with Lady Gaga saying, “You gotta get into her. She’s good.” Travis then said, “so, I started listening to her music more and going on YouTube and looking at her performances, and I was like, ‘He’s right.’ “

Check out the interview below:

Many people think that Lady Gaga is nothing but a gimmick who compensates for a lack of talent with the crazy costumes and performance theatrics. But what many people do not know is that Lady Gaga, just like Michael, was gifted even as a child. To provide a little background, she learned to play the piano by age 4 and wrote her first ballad at age 13. At 14, she played open mike nights at New York clubs by night and at age 17, she was one of 20 kids in the world to get early admission to Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. By 20, she was signed to Interscope and was writing songs for other artists such as the Pussycat Dolls, all this before she ever released her first album.

Lady Gaga is not someone who has lucked upon pop success by virtue of being beautiful, she is one of the few contemporary pop artists who combines raw talent with hard work and persistence to be where she is today.

Even at 50, Michael Jackson still had a good ear for modern pop music .

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Young Sam - So Lonely - New Music February 2010- Hip Hop - Rap

Young Sam – So Lonely – New Music February 2010- Hip Hop – Rap

A Song about being Lonely.

Remember there are over 6 Billion people in this world, you are not alone.

You just feel like your alone.

Get outside, go to a coffee shop and sit down and talk to a total stranger.

Then you will no longer feel so alone.

You’d be surprised how many people feel alone out there.

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The King of Pop Lives to Sing 'Another Day'

I know, I know…this site’s not about music.  Well, with judges like Quentin Tarantino and Ellen Degeneres, neither is American Idol and nobody’s calling them on that, so I say on with the show…

*ahem*

Though it’s been over 6 months already since Michael Jackson exited the stage, the reality of it still hits me every now and then.

And although the King of Pop has left the kingdom, like every artist, he lives on in his work – his game-changing music and revolutionary videos, both of which are byproducts of  his relentless pursuit of perfection.  A pursuit that unfortunately led him down a path from which there was no return.

Like numerous artists before him who left us before their time, he undoubtedly left many unfinished works behind.  Predictably, these unfinished pieces will be completed, polished and presented to us by an unsettling mix those who cared about the man, those who cared about his work and those who simply want to profit from a newly bankable star.

But regardless of how you feel about posthumously released work, it’s undeniably exciting to get a glimpse into the unseen library of one of music’s most influential minds.

The first of these inevitable glimpses was “leaked” onto the Internet earlier this week.  It’s called “Another Day” and it’s a collaboration between the King of Pop and Lenny Kravitz, written and produced by Kravitz, performed and recorded by Jackson.  While the powers-that-be try to decide the best way to make money from this track, we the fans can still enjoy the minute-and-a-half unmixed bit of track that managed to find its way to us.  Enjoy it while it lasts…

This is it.

–Dpoe

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and i'm back in the game... (please do not mistake this with 'on the game' - very different)

So we’re now in 2010, a whole new decade, if there’s any new year that deserves resoluting (?) (resolutioning? is resolutionworthy? – none of these are in the dictionary but go with it), anyway, in the words of the late, great MJ – THIS IS IT.

This year, rather than coming up with a resolution that is going to make me miserable – you know the traditionals like healthy eating and exercise – I’ve decided to start blogging again.

Reading over my old blogs to relocate them to this shiny new site, it pained me to think I haven’t been a personal blogger for almost three years (also it’s pretty scary to think I left uni three years ago- well old). I can put the non-blogging down to having a real grown-up-editors job and not having time, but I think part of me also thought nobody wants to read the superficial ramblings of a 23-year-old anglo-hungarian.

 But now I think ‘fuck it’, I have spent at least two years growing up and being serious and it’s high time I grew back down again (I know that made no sense, but that’s the beauty of digressing).

Also I never cared before that I have only had three dedicated readers, so why should I now? And it just so happens in the last two days two people have told me they’d like to read my blogs- all I need to do now is rope my Mum into subscribing and i’m laughing!

My year so far has been pretty damn good, so the rest of it has a lot to live up to. PLUS I already have plenty of things i’m looking forward to. So for those reason it would be a crime to let 2010 go unrecorded, regardless of who wants to read about it.

Now i’m aware that i’ve rambled on for 3oo words so I won’t write a propper blog now, but I will do is a little exercise in comparing the me of now and the me of yesteryear.

Here is a link (or a pingback as the kids are calling it these days) to a blog I wrote exactly three years ago which I very creatively entitled January. Have a read of it to get an idea of what my views were then…

now I bet you’re wondering what I think now…well pretty much exactly the same - I would still take leaning against something over walking up a hill any day…however I don’t know what my problem was that particular January because right now I can’t think of anything I don’t like about January…that said I don’t go back to work until tomorrow.

Merry new year one and all!

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MJ is dead. C'mon people - Let it go

Yeah, I said it. Michael Jackson is dead. A tragedy for his family and friends. But do we really have to see a show highlighting his *genius* every day? Or see all his albums back out in the music stores? Or see his picture posted all over? Really, he topped his career 20 years ago, people. Even this week, Billboard has him in the top 15. Good grief. Yeah, he wowed everyone with his moonwalk. Thriller was a good video. He wore one glove, big whoop. I never understood how people could just go crazy over him, and all the new profits coming now seems a bit like vultures picking over a carcass. He was in the public eye his whole life, he made some decent music, and lead an extremely disturbing personal life. Can’t we just let the man rest in peace, and give the rest of us a break?

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2010...lets hope music gets better!

I was thinking about music as of late, and I am frankly tired of American Idol and the Disney Channel dominating what Americans, and the world, consider popular. Justin Beiber follows Miley Cyrus, who followed Jonas Brothers, and before that we had Spice Girls, Britney Spears, and Backstreet Boys. I think the last time music was interesting was probably in the early 1990s when hip-hop and dare I say even grunge rock were prevalent. Back then you had House of Pain, Salt-N-Pepa, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Dr. Dre and others making very potent music that people respected and cared about. Lately, I can’t think of music/artists that people respect and care about. It’s alot of rappers saying nothing with catchy hooks sung by females, with “auto-tune” on full-blast, making everyone sound digitally manipulated and party-ready. Well, the party isn’t as good as it once was.

I feel like the music biz and show business in general have run out of creativity. It seems like everything’s a remake of something already done before…Where are the artists taking music to different places? Where are the new Michael Jackson’s and Beatles? Who is re-defining American culture through song these days? I can’t think of anyone. Sure Rihanna has had a lot of hit singles, but I can’t see how “Umbrella” will matter ten years from now, except to get people on a dancefloor perhaps? Just seems to me that music today is alot of noise but little substance.

Now I know you can go online and find obscure bands and singers and support them by downloading their tunes for 99 cents these days, but the problem is they have small audiences. The industry used to be controlled by gatekeepers which helped Joe so-and-so become a superstar. Now with all the labels pretty much kaput, and artists doing it for themselves, you don’t have superstars, you’ve got minor, niche successes. Fall Out Boy is an example. They’re big but not HUGE. Where are the Celine Dion’s? The Aerosmith’s? The Journey’s? Today the music world is splintered by the web and it’s something that really bugs me!

I should talk. I am planning on being an independent artist promoting my music online in 2010. I don’t know if I will “sell” 10 downloads or a million. We shall see. Would I like to influence many people thru music? Yes! Will that be possible in today’s “Facebook” world? Who knows? What a weird wired world we live in right now.

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