Oops!! I guess I did "pull a Michael Jackson" on you guys! He pops up and then he disappears, doesn't he? :lol: He has a way of rubbing off on people. lol
Before I post part 2, I'm gonna let you hear what he said in silence in part 1.
Notice that his limo stopped in part 1and waited, that he rolled down his window when I walked up to it, and that he didn't say a single word the whole time that I was there, but that he didn't roll his window back up until after I left. That's him saying he was waiting to see what I wanted.
Notice that after I left and got back in the car with my cousins, his limo went back around the corner and stopped briefly in front of the teen club again. That's him saying, "I'm going to go and check on those girls you just told me about."
Then, of course at the radio station, there was more of the same, silence and shyness. Except this time I did get a whispered "hello," a whispered "thank you" and a whispered "good-bye." He is SO cute. He gets on stage, dances his butt off, singles like a bird and roars like a lion, and then when he's off stage he's soft spoken, speaks in a whisper, or is totally silent. And I forgot this part. When he gives you that puppy-dog look with those beautiful brown eyes it makes your heart melt! And then, mixed in with all of this, is his fear, but he will still interact with you with all of this going at the same time. That is, if you do not over react because it's him, and you do give him a chance to not be afraid.
I'm going to type up and post the final part of my day of MJ, and then this time, you will be able to tell for yourselves that he was waiting to see if a promise was going to be kept after what I said to him at the radio station. From reading the lines from the various songs posted on the other page, and the words from his poems where he mentions the word "promise" or "promises," you can tell that he feels very strongly about this type of thing. He wants to see if someone will let him believe them. In the post, you will also be able to feel him interacting in silence a little more than he did in the first part. Even when he's saying a little, he's saying more than that. When he's saying nothing at all verbally, he's still speaking. You will also notice this about him too.
Remember what he said in the December '07 issue of Ebony about how he and Quincy ended up working together on "Off The Wall?" He said, "So after we had made this movie--we had gotten pretty close on the film, too: he helped me understand certain words, he was really father-like--I called him after the movie, out of complete sincerity--'cause I'm a shy person, ESPECIALLY then, I used to not even look at people when they were talking to me, I'm not joking--and I said, 'I'm ready to do an album. Do you think... could you recommend anybody who would be interested in producing it with me or working with me?'..." See, he's even telling people during an interview that he was like this. lol Too cute!
Ok I'm confuzzled here
I feel MJ has to communicate with his fans sometimes.....are you saying when he does, its a "double" message (to an individual AND his fans) or a "hidden" message to an individual "through" his fans?
as for Earth Song, are you saying there are parts where he's referring to a female? That's a unique concept of that song....
*goes to read thread some more*
Nope, "Earth Song" is about something much bigger. I just grouped it with the other songs and poems where he mentions "promise" because it's a song where he's asking for answers. He's asking why all the things that were said were not done. He's also asking why there was so much carelessness going on.
As for his messages during and after the trial and the way they are sometimes worded, sometimes they are to his fans and his friend. The lovey-dovey stuff while he's singing is self-explanatory. Still, it's nice for everyone to listen to, because it's nice hearing him sound that way.
I thought Earth Song was more a cry out to God. I guess I could listen to it again to see what else I could get from it.
There is one specific line that helps us to see that it's not a cry out to God, but a song directed at man. It is the line where he yells, "You didn't give a damn."
He would never say that to God and he would never speak to Him in that tone. Even when he was going to the courthouse on verdict day, and he was totally exhausted, and being faced with the unknown, he held his Bible and repeatedly asked God "why?" But from listening to the way that Jermaine said Rebbie described it to him, MJ wasn't acting like he was angry with God. He just wanted to know why he had to go through that. Once it was all over, he found out it was because God was restoring him.
In "Earth Song," MJ is pointing out, and asking about, many things that have gone wrong and are in disarray. He's pointing out man's errors in preserving life and the planet. He was pointing it out before people started talking about going "green." In "Earth Song," he's asking why people didn't stop to notice what was going wrong. He was pointing it out and those that are paying attention now were not paying attention then. Now, everyone is scrambling to try and fix what he had noticed a long time ago.