Friday Michael Music
Beat me, hate me
You can never break me
Will me, thrill me
You can never kill me
All I wanna say is that they don’t really care about us
Posted in Filmmaking/Video, Music
Beat me, hate me
You can never break me
Will me, thrill me
You can never kill me
All I wanna say is that they don’t really care about us
Posted in Filmmaking/Video, Music
I have never seen this video, nor heard this song. The hyperbole on TV reminds me of Anna Nicole Smith’s passing.
Dying an untimely death is good for your career.
our culture feeds on the pain of others, pays for it, cheers it on. as long as we can dance to it.
i have heard this song many times, but not seen the video. i think that people really have been blind to or oversimplified/turned into a joke jackson’s committment to using his music to fight injustice and remind people of things that some folks like to ignore. everyone laughs now about ‘we are the world’ but at that time it was radical and it worked to put the issue in americans’ faces. ‘man in the mirror’ is referenced as a beautiful song, but then waved off. ‘they don’t really care about us’ is actually more radical, very brave on michael’s part, but it got almost no attention at all because so many people would rather talk about more glamorous or controversial issues, think of michael as just the so-called child molester with a plastic surgery addiction (whether i even agree that he was either of those two things is beside the point, but i don’t). he was so much more. but it is true, with death comes this feeding frenzy that i want no part in.
But “We Are The World” was an over-hyped, unoriginal rip-off of 1984′s, “Band Aid”. At least Bob Geldof and Midge Ure wrote and produced a good tune for their project.
Possible that some heart went into WATW, but it seemed really opportunistic by the artists involved the “The American Version” at the time. We were laughing at WATW then. Cringed every time it was on the radio.
Let’s not do this here and now.