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Post by LindavG on Mar 13, 2024 21:33:41 GMT
Someone in the Youtube comments said this:
Is that correct? The questions seem rather detailed for a newspaper article. And I can't imagine Michael would be so candid for that.
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Post by abbeycodi on Mar 14, 2024 2:03:29 GMT
Someone in the Youtube comments said this: Is that correct? The questions seem rather detailed for a newspaper article. And I can't imagine Michael would be so candid for that. Yes, I believe so. Check out this interview. youtu.be/uKXHG60VB0w?si=IutOLFsc4JvVAk3S Around min 6 he talks about writing a book with MJ during the Victory tour. His voice also sounds similar to the one heard on the tapes (stuttering and all), granted the tapes were recorded 25 years prior to that interview. |
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Post by respect77 on Mar 19, 2024 18:53:31 GMT
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Post by respect77 on Mar 19, 2024 19:15:07 GMT
Lol, the rock guitarist Randy Hansen said he got checks for writing the song and he never did. And based on the interview above he really didn't. It was a different Randy Hansen. In the comments of this video someone says it was actually her brother in law who wrote it with MJ.
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Post by abbeycodi on Mar 19, 2024 19:39:28 GMT
This may be my least favorite tape so far… Nothing of great interest was said besides a quick bit about State of Shock, for most of the tape MJ exhaustively praises Steven Spielberg. |
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Post by LindavG on Mar 19, 2024 23:19:11 GMT
This may be my least favorite tape so far… Nothing of great interest was said besides a quick bit about State of Shock, for most of the tape MJ exhaustively praises Steven Spielberg. I disagree, I thought this one was interesting. I never knew the idea for State of Shock came from a 12-year-old kid and that Michael originally planned to do it with Freddie Mercury. Michael was clearly very preoccupied with film at this point in his life. It was pretty much all he wanted to talk about. It's a shame he never really got to develop it. I think he was just too famous and unique to really disappear into a role. It would be hard to see anyone other than Michael Jackson on screen. I didn't find him very convincing as an actor in Captain EO to be honest. But it would've been interesting to see him write and/or direct a feature film. That's cute that he pronounced Goethe as Go-ette lol. We studied Goethe in high school (for German) and some of his poems gave me nightmares, particularly the Erlking. I can see why Michael would like it though. It mentioned that there's a part 7 at the end. I hope they keep coming and we get to hear the full tape eventually. |
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Post by abbeycodi on Mar 20, 2024 2:56:06 GMT
This may be my least favorite tape so far… Nothing of great interest was said besides a quick bit about State of Shock, for most of the tape MJ exhaustively praises Steven Spielberg. I disagree, I thought this one was interesting. I never knew the idea for State of Shock came from a 12-year-old kid and that Michael originally planned to do it with Freddie Mercury. Michael was clearly very preoccupied with film at this point in his life. It was pretty much all he wanted to talk about. It's a shame he never really got to develop it. I think he was just too famous and unique to really disappear into a role. It would be hard to see anyone other than Michael Jackson on screen. I didn't find him very convincing as an actor in Captain EO to be honest. But it would've been interesting to see him write and/or direct a feature film. That's cute that he pronounced Goethe as Go-ette lol. We studied Goethe in high school (for German) and some of his poems gave me nightmares, particularly the Erlking. I can see why Michael would like it though. It mentioned that there's a part 7 at the end. I hope they keep coming and we get to hear the full tape eventually. I liked it but I just didn’t learn much from this new one as I did with the others. Yes, totally agree about his aspirations to be an actor, it just wasn’t possible after a certain point (post Thriller) he was too huge and eventually too much of a tabloid caricature to truly disappear into a role. I think with more earnest material Michael was better, like in the Bad short film. It’s interesting how truly determined he was when talking about how he wants to observe great talent and soak it in, to then master himself. The power of manifesting was very real to MJ. |
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Post by respect77 on Mar 20, 2024 6:02:33 GMT
Re. the Goethe story, I knew that but with Socrates. Wasn't it Socrates in Moonwalk? It was on the scene of The Wiz and when he had to pull out different quotes from his head he mispronounced Socrates and Quincy pulled him aside to correct him. This is the story I remember, but with Socrates, not Goethe. Maybe it was both. LOL.
As for film, yeah it's a bit sad those of his dreams didn't materialize, but I think this admiration for film is what made him the greatest music video pioneer and artist, so in a way they actually did. Just not on the big screen. He channeled all his energy for film into revolutionizing the art of music video.
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Post by abbeycodi on Mar 29, 2024 19:06:39 GMT
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Post by respect77 on Mar 29, 2024 19:48:07 GMT
"With LaToya, strictly acting." 😂
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Post by abbeycodi on Mar 29, 2024 20:35:23 GMT
Summary: - MJ hasn’t seen Prince’s Purple Rain (as of the recording) - MJ talks about Brooke Shields, liking her, and meeting her at the 1981 Academy Awards - He talks about his sisters and their perspective talents - Talks about The Wiz and his experience making it - Talks about his military style inspo - MJ talks about his pet collection and the badly behaved tiger on the set of the Thriller album shoot |
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Post by Snow White on Mar 30, 2024 4:08:38 GMT
I never understood why MJ liked Brooke so much, she seemed such a fair-weather friend to him who just wanted to be associated with him to stay relevant.
About that beautiful tiger cub behavior , it was normal. That's how they act, they like to play quite rough and the spot on growl Michael made, people may think the cubs are screaming in pain or they're are distressed but no, that's how the tiger cubs communicate.
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Post by respect77 on Mar 30, 2024 4:24:45 GMT
I think he just felt comfortable with Brooke at the time because she wasn't pushing him for sex like maybe other women would have. MJ was still very religious at the time and I think he was also a late bloomer and Brooke too was a late bloomer. I think being comfortable and unpressured with each other that way was an important element of their friendship. I think this was always a friendship rather than a romance. As for Brooke being a fairweather friend, yeah, but he didn't know it at the time.
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Post by LindavG on Mar 31, 2024 3:17:23 GMT
"With LaToya, strictly acting." 😂 Michael was so (unintentionally) funny sometimes. "But they put this pacemaker convalescent music" ... "These grey head people crowding the floor"  I think you're right about Brooke. He seems to have a crush on her but it's all quite innocent. It's cute the way he talks about her though. The interviewer probably wanted to get some dirt on Prince but Michael didn't engage. Good for him. Interesting to hear his thoughts about The Wiz. I wonder which actor he was talking about that was distracting him. I can understand why a perfectionist like Michael would be bothered by that. |
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Post by respect77 on Mar 31, 2024 3:28:42 GMT
I wonder which actor he was talking about that was distracting him. I can understand why a perfectionist like Michael would be bothered by that. Didn't he tell this story in Moonwalk too? Wasn't it one of the crows? |
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