The lyrics "You'll find that life is still worthwhile, If you just Smile"...
Beautiful lyrics. This is basically how I live my life, I suppose. Just smile. Don't get bogged down in the negative. Looks for the positives; if you do, your life will be so much better.
"Smile when your heart is aching, Smile even though it's breaking"...
"Smile, and maybe tomorrow...You'll find that life is still worthwhile...If you just Smile".
While I am aware that this is "a Charlie Chaplin song", it's Michael's delivery which really makes me love this song so much. While the lyric could move mountains, the performance of said words by Michael Jackson could cause them mountains to erode themselves in floods of tears.
Right, the world is still going crazy over Michael Jackson so I'm going to jump on this sinking ship which seems like it's going on floating on forever. I'm going to tell you my dear journal reader all about my Micheal Jackson (what he means just to me, not everyone else). To start with I'm going to say nothing about the circus since his death, but all I'll say is I never brought his music when he was alive because the money would go to support a life style that was just, well... what one word could possibly sum up what his life turned into when he was alive? or what is now referred to as his final years?
I think you know what I'm talking about even if you are a really big fan. There are a lot of “What If's” flying around him but I put this to you dear journal reader: What if he continued making music like other big names from the 80's eg: U2, Madonna, Prince, Depeche Mode, Kylie Minogue, R.E.M., Metallica etc (maybe they're not as big as in their hey day but have continued to make new music). Of course some other big names have just faded away never to comeback. Michael was doing a comeback but if Jackson continued making music and releasing an album every couple of years (even if it was great, good, bad or even just ugly music) it would have been a positive “The Music” to all the negative “The Press”. Some fans didn't really care they just wanted him anyway he was coming, or should I use the word going now.
Micheal Jackson has passed away which I really wish he could “Rest In Peace” but it seems he can't, or wouldn't because of who he was when he was alive. I'm not going to buy his music now because it's really turned into just a monster money making machine for a lot of other people. Where or who is it all going to now? Or do I really want to know anyway. Now it seems “The Record Company” is releasing, or reissuing anything they can get their hands on and it will go to number 1. Which is I guess what happens but you are the customer and don't have to buy it like everyone else seem to be.
I would love to have a copy my favorite album of his which is Off the Wall. Which to me is the Micheal Jackson classic album even if other albums are higher sales, or whatever. The music press has been mixed up. Mojo magazine had a write up about “remember him this way” focus on his early 80's which was nice, I guess. Q magazine had a horror photo cover feature and NME and Rolling Stone and many others had theirs too but I have to say again I didn't buy any of them because you don't have too encourage this as well.
I want to tell a funny story now to lighten things up a bit. Recenlty I got Adam Ant's auto bio book which was full of surprises and a great read but I think you have to be a fan to read it. I would rated the book at 4 and ½ out of 5. He was my first music hero, I paint that white stripe on my face every time he was on Countdown (an Aussie TV show). The first album I bought was Adam and the Ants' Kings of the Wild Frontier even if it was payed for by my Mother and was supposed to be my Father's birthday present. Maybe I should write a journal about him but for now I wanted to tell the story about when Micheal Jackson called up Adam Ant one night in the 80's. It was at 4 am in the morning Adam's phone starts ringing, wakes-up and finds on the receiver an American accent which says,
“Hello? Hello? Is that Adam Ant?”
At that point Adam thinks it's his band member Terry Lee making another prank phone call again and says,
“Stop pissing about, Terry. I'm trying to sleep.”
but the voice said,
“No, it's not Terry, It's Michael. Is that Adam Ant?”
At that point he hangs up after saying,
“Very funny, Terry, now f*** Off!”
The telephone started to ring again and Ant anwers again with the same voice saying,
“Hi, no, really it's me Micheal Jackson and I just want to ask you...”
Adam cutting him off and shouting at Terry to stop this or he'll come over and “F*** hit you” and “Piss off” which I have to say that sounds such an English punk rock thing. He rolled over but again the phone rings he grabbed the receiver and screams
“Terry, That's IT!!!”
but it's a different voice with an American accent, this time it was deeper, slower and calmer,
“Hi, is that Adam Ant?”
“Oh, oh, yes, this is Adam, Who are you?”
“I'm Quincy Jones, calling from L.A. Sorry, we probably woke you up, but I'm here with Micheal Jackson and he'd like to speak with you. Is that OK?”
In the book Adam wrote “F*** me, I thought”, which is lucky he didn't say that too but he just agreed.
“Hi, Adam, it's really Micheal, sorry I woke you.”
After just telling the king of pop to piss and F*** off he apologized
“Oh, no, sorry to have been so rude to you.” Anyway after saying sorry to each other again and bit of small talk, Micheal got to the point.
“I really like your jacket. Can you tell me where you got it?”
“Huh? My jacket?” says Adam, trying to think and saying something about somewhere that supplied costumes for movies. Saying the same jacket was worn by David Hemming in The Charge Of The Brigade film. Then Jackson asked what the suppliers name was and even how to spell it correctly. Then Micheal finshed with,
“Great, thanks. Let's meet up next time you're in America, Bye.”
That was it, the line went dead. If you look at the time line or make one yourself the next Michael Jackson album was Thriller and remember a red jacket he wore, or should I not have to spell that out for you?
Anyway the other funny thing I wanted to share with you is my favorite Jackson cover song by the great and totally mad Crispin Hellion Glover of one of Jackson's greatest songs Ben. Maybe the audio track of Glover doing Ben is fine but to get the full insanity of it all here is the youtube clip too, judge for yourself. This is the video clip to go with his film called "Willard" which I have yet to see but love this and laugh every time I watch it.
I hope you enjoy my little stories and writing about Micheal Jackson. It's not even been six months since his passing away but hopefully one day the world will all calm down and maybe one day I will get Off The Wall album too. What do you think yourself about all of the above or whatever you think about him.
I like doing these things though, whether I am bored or not ^.^
So put your music player of choice on shuffle, and list the first 40 songs that come up. You can repeat artists, but not songs. Let's see how it's going to turn for me =D
I'm Anna & these are the 15 most irritating, nerve-grating, brain-killing, child-corrupting, seizure-inducing songs in music history. If you feel very, very masochistic, create a playlist of these, listen to it, then kill yourself. What, you're not suicidal? YOU WILL BE.
PARENTAL WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT! THE FOLLOWING JOURNAL ENTRY HAS PICTURES OF MUTANTS IN IT!!!
Because there can be no list of shitty songs without this one. The worst thing is-once the fucker gets into your ears, there's no getting rid of it! And look at that album cover... JUST LOOK AT IT.
Whoever thinks that this band does good hard rock needs to check out The Cult ASAP. If you do that and still think this song & this band are any good, congratulations- you fucking suck.
Hard to pick just one, really. I chose this 'cause he says I'M BAD a zillion times in it, and it's the truth. The most overrated artist in music history, MJ had an unnaturally whiny voice & annoyingly repetitive, spastic dance moves, widely considered some of the bestest evarrr. Really? Plus he had the IQ of a senile Forrest Gump and threw away millions upon millions of dollars on shiny kitsch he didn't really need. A true icon indeed.
The fact that I liked this song when I was 13 makes me sad. Celine is the perfect example of a person who does have a voice, but uses it in the most irritating way imaginable.
The English language doesn't have the words to describe how bad it is. I wish I could've spent the summer of 2004 on the Moon, maybe then I could've avoided hearing this (not sure, though). Unfortunately I understand the lyrics, too.
I'm confused. I thought black females were supposed to have good voices. But then along come this squeaking blow-up doll and suddenly I'm not so sure anymore.
Look at this video. There's no way to describe just how disjointed and overlong and weird and ugly it is. Plus it features Lady GaGa, who's guaranteed to make everything 50% uglier.
The song is... amazingly bad. The kind of nausea-inducing shittiness that makes you hope that all that stuff in the Bible is true and there is indeed a Hell where the people responsible for this bullshit will burn, BURN for eternity.
It's actually a 3-way tie between Womanizer, Gimme More & 3. The Unholy Trinity of shitty plastic pop devoid of any emotion or message, 'cept that dressing up as cheap slut is cool and attracts men. Sadly, the latter is true.
She is a phenomenon! She is wild! She is shocking! SHE SUCKS ASS!
Stuff her fans keep saying:
SHE CAN PLAY THE PIANO!!! - yeah, like cca. 50.000.000 other people on the planet.
SHE SINGS LIVE!!! - sad but true: actually squeezing out those dumbass lyrics instead of mouthing them is an extraordinary accomplishment in today's pop business.
SHE DESIGNS ALL HER STUFF!!! - I'm pretty sure her designing process includes smoking weed while thinking real hard about how she could make the headlines again.
ZOMG SHE'S SO HOT!!! - O rly? Am I missing something here?
...yeah, whatever, dudes. The level of idiocy in Poker Face is nicely demonstrated by this charming fellow:
And if you still want more, just read the lyrics for Bad Romance & feel free to discuss the hidden meaning behind mysterious & intriguing lines like Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah-ah!
Roma-roma-mamaa!
Ga-ga-ooh-la-la!
What, you still don't feel suicidal? Here's a bonus, brought to you by Black Eyed Peas!
What exactly do they mean to accuse critics of being jealous of? Presumably the artist they are criticizing. But what do they mean, specifically? Their money? Their fame? These things are meaningless, a fact we were all supposed to learn from Disney movies when we were six. Their talent? That makes little sense—why would critics be jealous of something that they maintain doesn't exist? Unless they propose to know that critics don't actually think such-and-such pop artist lacks talent—but how exactly do they come by that knowledge? Why do these pop fans imagine themselves to be such brilliant psychoanalysts? How do they think they are able to establish such transcendent connections to the deepest psyches of other humans? If they are able to do so, why do we even have a CIA? Why not draft a legion of pop fans to extract intelligence directly from the very minds of our enemies?
My friends, I am merely asking the questions that need to be asked.
HOT 'Coming Soon' Singles... (X) denotes download only release*
Janet Jackson - Make Me (16/11) *STEAM! (X)
Alicia Keys - Doesn't Mean Anything (16/11) *STEAM!*
Moby - One Time We Lived (16/11) *STEAM!* (X)
Róisín Murphy - Orally Fixated (16/11) *STEAM!* (X)
Little Boots - Earthquake (16/11) ~Water~
Mariah Carey - I Want To Know What Love Is (23/11) *STEAM! (X)
David Guetta - One Love (23/11) *STEAM!*
Ultrabeat - Use Somebody (23/11) *STEAM!*
Groove Armada - I Won't Kneel (23/11) *STEAM!*
Tiesto - Escape Me (23/11) ~Water~ (X)
Lady GaGa - Bad Romance (23/11) ~Water~
La Roux - Quicksand (23/11) ~Water~
Basshunter - I Promised Myself (30/11) *STEAM!*
Pixie Lott - Cry Me Out (30/11) ~Water~
Ricky Tomlinson - Calm Down (07/12) *STEAM!* (X)
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power Of Love (07/12) *STEAM!*
BWO - Right Here Right Now (07/12) *STEAM!*
The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die / Thunder (07/12) ~Water~
Mini Viva - I Wish (07/12) ~Water~
Sir Terry Wogan & Aled Jones / Sharon Corr – Silver Bells / Me & My Teddy Bear (07/12) ~Water~
Pet Shop Boys - It Doesn't Often Snow At Christmas (14/12) *STEAM!*
Whitney Houston - I Look To You (14/12) *STEAM!*
Robbie Williams - You Know Me (14/12) *STEAM!*
George Michael - December Song (14/12) *STEAM!*
Basement Jaxx - My Turn (14/12) *STEAM!*
Michael Bublé - Hold On (14/12) *STEAM!*
The Saturdays - Ego (14/12) ~Water~
Shakira - Did It Again (14/12) ~Water~
Cascada - Fever (14/12) ~Water~
HOT 'Coming Soon' Albums...
Shakespears Sister - Songs From The Red Room (16/11) *STEAM!*
Tori Amos - Midwinter Graces (16/11) *STEAM!*
Enya - The Very Best Of (23/11) *STEAM!*
Janet Jackson - Best (23/11) *STEAM!*
Dannii Minogue - The 1995 Sessions (23/11) *STEAM!*
Dannii Minogue - Love and Kisses (Deluxe Edition) (23/11) *STEAM!*
Dannii Minogue - Get Into You (Deluxe Edition) (23/11) *STEAM!*
Bette Midler - The Best Bette [Deluxe CD+DVD Edition] (30/11) *STEAM!*
Barry Manilow - The Swing Of Christmas (30/11) *STEAM!*
Michael Jackson
Smile
