i can remember how people said MJ's career was over, because he seemed not willing to tour. i can remember how the media said he's going bankrupt cus he's not willing to 'work'. i remember all the rumours about vegas. and how people kept saying MJ was begging them to let him do a residency for them. only to find out the rumors were not true. in the end, phillips was pressuring MJ for years to do something. anything. so now, MJ seems to blink and phillips goes off planning and assuming that there are a world of concerts on the plateau. and everybody went crazy.
but you see....MJ never needed to do these concerts. he doesn't ever need to do a concert again. ever.
so phillips is like a lot of fans. MJ nods his head just a little, and everybody goes all out, talking about big dreams. really big dreams. lifetime dreams to see him.
and the reality is, there's nothing. there's nothing, unless this whole thing was rehearsed for, before an announcement was made.
but see, if you did that, then everybody would assume that there will be a concert, while there was no announcement made, yet. but everybody would carry the rumours anyway. ad nauseum. and then, everybody would blame Michael for a concert that he never announced would happen. but he might have held off from an announcement, because he wanted to make sure the logistics agreed with the idea of a successful concert. he wanted to have the headroom to say, no go. no concert, if his preparation came to naught. but he would still be blamed. because...he's Michael Jackson.
logisitics are a bitch. no one can contol them.
everybody understands that, when it happens to them, but they don't understand it, when it happens to somebody else.
so...what other choice does Michael have? he nodded, phillips went all out, without an actual blueprint.
everybody understood that. it was a piece of idealism.
and with idealism, there are risks. it might happen. it might not. nobody has control over that.
right now, the UK is the only place that has received this piece of idealism.
there are other countries that would LOVE this piece of idealism. and phillips said it's hopeful that it will spread to other parts of the world.
and people know that this is a risk. it might happen. it might not. but it's Michael Jackson. it's big. and people will once again, make arrangements. put off many things, KNOWING that it is a Risk. this experience won't change them, because it's Michael Jackson. it's too big to miss.
there are people that bought tickets, knowing that they didn't have money to get to the UK. right at that point, they took a risk.
there are people that are saving money in the usa, right now, for a possible usa residency. they KNOW they are taking a risk. i'm one of them. nothing is promised. nothing is guaranteed. but does that stop anyone from operating on the premise of hope? it happens all the time.
there are people that live as far away as Russia, that saved up money, bought tickets, only to find that extenuating circumstances in their own homeland stopped them from being able to go, even before all this cancellation stuff got started. they took a risk from the beginning.
and yet, this is nothing but a piece of entertainment, in a world where people are dying, there's world hunger, lots of problems, that put this music thing in perspective.
so....this little thing called entertainment. it's something worth putting into perspective. even if music is something we can't live without.
