MJTruth
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Agreed. Negotiations about using the Tramp character should have been ongoing for a while by the time the performances came around and so if it looked doubtful they were going to reach an agreement then then could have adapted the existing video concept or designed a brand new concept as a backup.
By the sound of it they were never going to be able to get the music video ready for release day even if they HAD got permission to use the Tramp character.
At that point of time, with the Wetten Das and French performances booked, CD singles printed, promo being released to retailers, posters on the streets of Germany, stickers on the front of new copies of the HIStory album, they absolutely COULD have performed on Wetten Das (and in France) and officially released the single.
The song performance did not require any elaborate staging, backing dancers, or costumes. It did not require the Chaplin character.
It's a simple melodic tune and if the use of the Tramp character was going to be a problem then MJ could have just stood and sung live if he had wanted to. To be honest that simple approach would have been refreshing to see and hear. I've said it before but MJ should (at that stage of his career) have been moving toward a more mature phase as a performer - concentrating more on live singing and less on energetic dance routines.
I don't buy the story about the Chaplin Estate's decision leading to the cancellation of the video and therefore the whole single release.
Not when all that preparation has already been done, unless it was MJ himself who refused to cooperate with promotion once the Chaplin Estate refused to let him play Tramp.
By the sound of it they were never going to be able to get the music video ready for release day even if they HAD got permission to use the Tramp character.
At that point of time, with the Wetten Das and French performances booked, CD singles printed, promo being released to retailers, posters on the streets of Germany, stickers on the front of new copies of the HIStory album, they absolutely COULD have performed on Wetten Das (and in France) and officially released the single.
The song performance did not require any elaborate staging, backing dancers, or costumes. It did not require the Chaplin character.
It's a simple melodic tune and if the use of the Tramp character was going to be a problem then MJ could have just stood and sung live if he had wanted to. To be honest that simple approach would have been refreshing to see and hear. I've said it before but MJ should (at that stage of his career) have been moving toward a more mature phase as a performer - concentrating more on live singing and less on energetic dance routines.
I don't buy the story about the Chaplin Estate's decision leading to the cancellation of the video and therefore the whole single release.
Not when all that preparation has already been done, unless it was MJ himself who refused to cooperate with promotion once the Chaplin Estate refused to let him play Tramp.