SoCav
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Yes. If you want to see someone else doing MJ moves, buy a ticket for the nearest fan party - it will be a lot cheaper. Many fans have a problem with impersonators (I personally don't), but at least they bill themselves as what they are - impersonators. If this hologram idea were to happen, it will say 'MJ' on the ticket. They're not going to mention that you're going to see Earnest Valentino with CGI layered on top of his face - we already saw this in the way the STTR hologram was marketed. Furthermore, it will be shown in much bigger arenas or at much bigger events than a fan party or a Las Vegas show where a few people attend for a beer and a laugh. A disturbing thought...Honestly, it doesn't matter how it looks - it's obviously going to dance not like Michael, but like an impersonator they will do motion capture from. If they are going to sell this as an MJ hologram, that's just deception. I feel sorry for young fans who will spend money on this sham.
This is exactly what happened with Slave To The Rhythm. The only thing missing were the vocals being performed by a vocal impersonator, but they already got that base covered with the Cascio tracks.Imagine that.. his songs finished up by others, performed by an impersonator made into a hologram.. That's reducing his art to a gimmick, it has nothing to do with Michael anymore.
Honestly, I think people need to accept that Michael is dead. He gave us so much during his lifetime, why can't we celebrate that? This idea of pretending that he is still alive by showing projections of an impersonator doing new dance routines, and focusing on releasing 'new' songs with modern (non-MJ) production rather than outtakes as he left them, is just ridiculous. Neither are ever going to be anything like the real thing. It is also insulting and damaging to Michael's image, firstly because it communicates that Michael is basically replaceable: his music can be replaced by the work of other producers, his dancing by a projected impersonator, and they even tried to replace his vocals. And secondly, because Michael never got the chance to sign off on some impersonator performing a remixed version of an old demo he worked on as 'Michael Jackson'.
It is one thing to release a bunch of outtakes and say 'okay, Michael did not want these released, but now that he is no longer here, we feel it needs to be shared with the world as they provide a great insight into what he was working on' and then present material as he left it. It's a totally different thing to go 'listen to the NEW MJ song/Michael Jackson returns at the Billboard Awards', etc and then present work he basically had almost nothing to do with.
There is still so much to learn about the work Michael did himself. Why are we wasting our times with diluted crap?