Tag Archive | "michael jackson"
Why Shutting Up Is The Way To Market Your Music
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, [...]
Continue reading...Why Albums Don’t Matter Anymore
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Michael Jackson Proves That Music Celebrity Is Dying
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...The King Is Dead. So Is His Music Era
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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 [...]
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Monday, July 20, 2009
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