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We know MJ wanted to sing live as much as possible but I really doubt it would have worked out that way considering his age and mainly health at the time.
Why not?MJ & Friends Tour...shouldn't have happened.
I really don't care about the live singing. HIStory tour is my favorite tour
History tour is bottom for me. I even prefer the dancing in every other tour (I prefer to watch power and energy over sharpness)I really don't care about the live singing. HIStory tour is my favorite tour
So do you prefer lip-syncing to live singing? I think live singing is much more fun to watch. It makes concerts more exciting.
Why not?
History tour is bottom for me. I even prefer the dancing in every other tour (I prefer to watch power and energy over sharpness)
Wikipedia says:In my opinion, it seemed like a rushed money grab...not a real tour.
In my opinion, it seemed like a rushed money grab...not a real tour.
Couldn’t agree more. For me, the HIStory Tour is the only thing in Michael’s career that is completely disposable. The vocals are mediocre at best (and atrocious at worst), the miming is embarrassing for a performer of Michael’s creed, the dancing is average, and the set list and staging are borderline terrible. (Putting “In the Closet” in a medley with “Scream” and “They Don't Care About Us”? Not making “Blood on the Dance Floor” a fully-choreographed piece? Not dropping “Heal the World” once “Earth Song” was released? Never once performing “Childhood,” “Smile,” or “2 Bad”?)
The Bad and Dangerous tours, even with their shortcomings, felt like the product of Michael and his team putting in work to make something memorable and exciting. The HIStory Tour feels like an afterthought, and itÂ’s exceedingly obvious that he didnÂ’t want to do it.
I haven't watched a HIStory Tour show entirely in well over 5 years, there's nothing that attracts me back to it.
When I last watched one, I think it was Helsinki, I was looking at my phone, not really paying attention to it. I hate to say it but I turned it off after Dangerous
There's moments of magic but that pales in comparison to Bad and Dangerous were almost both shows were 2 hours of magic
You can see Michael's heart isn't in it like it was in previous tours
For In The Closer on the HIStory Tour, Michael definitely should have pre-recorded new speaking vocals for him to lip sync to. I always hated how he'd go from a deep, out of breath speaking voice into perfect falsetto vocals.
Mitm is much of a change as victory is to first leg to badAs the last few posts are about History Tour, here are my issues with that particular tour, in particular the set list.
- I am not the biggest fan of the medley. I think Scream as a solo performance doesn't work. It would have been better if it was performed as one off performance with Janet at some award show. I don't particularly like the solo performance.
- In The Closet felt out of place in that medley. I wish Michael had performed They Don't Care About Us as a full song, as I like the performance of that song.
- After the release of BOTDF and Ghosts, Michael should have added songs like 2Bad and Ghosts into the setlist for the 97 shows. I would have loved to see the 2Bad choreography live on stage. Ghosts & Is It Scary should have replaced Thriller, as the later song was boring live by that point, in my opinion.
- Heal The World should have been dropped. After the release of Earth Song, there was no reason to keep on doing Heal The World. It wasn't some mega hit that he had to do it live always.
- It's criminal that MITM was dropped and Heal the World wasn't. History Tour felt incomplete with MITM and ending the shows with History just felt really flat. MITM was the perfect concert closer at both Bad and Dangerous Tours.
Lol they were charity concerts
Didn't know it was for charity...well that explains why it wasn't that great...it was free.
Imo the MJ and friends concerts were the last performances where MJ seemed like himself. His voice was even better there than on the History Tour.
His voice? MJ and Friends shows were fully 100% lipsynced...
I can't imagine how insane Michael's legacy would be if he had retired in 1989. He would literally have been treated as a god on earth.Not to retire after the bad tour so that his subsequent endeavours werenÂ’t subject to heavy criticism.
We really are a tough crowd the please..
His voice? MJ and Friends shows were fully 100% lipsynced...