MADE

Like many people under 30 I believe music should be free. I’m a bit of a pirate in that regard, I guess. I refuse to buy CDs. I hate the notion of having to pay $15 for 12 songs I don’t like so I can get to the 2 that I do. I get most [...]

Joe Jackson’s a scumbag. Thousands of people on YouTube think he is. You saw the interview he did with CNN’s Don Lemmon at the BET Music Awards, didn’t you? Look at the video below. He was being asked questions about how the Jackson family’s doing in the wake of Michael’s death.

He answered with very abrupt, [...]

I’ve got a music producer friend who told me that he could never see himself working for a fat person. I asked why. His reasoning is that, basically, if someone isn’t disciplined enough to keep their body in order, then how disciplined can they really be about their business?
He tells me that the very sight [...]

There’s a HUGE disconnect somewhere. Everywhere I went for the last 2 weeks, somebody was talking to me about Michael Jackson. It’s died down in the past few days. But for a while, I was hearing about the tremendous surge in album sales after his death. All of a sudden, there were all these people [...]

Never believe in overnight successes. They’re like the tooth fairy. They’re make-believe. How many times have you heard about the struggling actress who moves to Hollywood and bumps into the guy at the coffee shop who happens to know a producer at Miramax? Then bam! The next week, she’s on the set of the next [...]

One of Michael Jackson’s greatest, but least well known videos is the one for his song “Liberian Girl”. It’s a beautiful song that demonstrates the range and depth that Michael had across musical genres.
I wish I could show you the YouTube, but the misguided record label disabled the embed. The video is a collage of [...]

I’ve travelled a lot. I’ve been to some of the most destitute corners of the world. Places that have no running water or electricity. Places where eating 3 meals a day is the exception. Places like Cameroon, Central Africa where the majority of people live on less than a dollar a day and don’t even [...]