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Faces [HIStory outtake]

Michael made some weird choices when sequencing the album, as some awesome tracks were left aside.

Dangerous, and especially Invincible have suffered from this, too. Hence why I think, an independent and objective mind like Q should have assisted (or even executed) the final selection of tracks on all post Bad era albums.
 
am I listing to the right one or why is this kinda creepy in the beginning?? like what was mike trying to say???
 
Great thread mate!
I do really like Faces, I think the production is brilliant and Mike's speech is profound and uplifting

As it is I'm not sure it would have worked on HIStory, but I'd take it over Little Susie, so perhaps track 14. I wouldn't change that opening 3 songs on HIStory for anything, it's perfect for what he was trying to say.

I hope they release this officially at some point, maybe in relation to Nelson Mandela (birthday?) or Black history month.
I love how much pride Michael had in being black
 
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Fuzball said:
Why not? He wasn't biased as he didn't contribute own songs.


The brothers, together. If memory serves correct, Michael wasn't happy how certain songs were mixed.
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What did he say about the mixing? what's wrong with the mix?
 
I feel like in the state that it was left in, this song would only work as an interlude or something in the likes of it. If it had any proper vocals maybe it'd work well on the latter half of the track list?
 
SmoothCriminal1995 said:
I hope they release this officially at some point, maybe in relation to Nelson Mandela (birthday?) or Black history month.
I love how much pride Michael had in being black
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I want the original version(s) first but maybe some of Mandela speeches are public domain and they can use them for a new version or remix of the track like they did with Can You Feel it.

 
You could use Faces as an intro for Changes and build a new song out of both.
 
Faces should see the light of day as the lyrics are very powerful and important - especially when we look at the state of the world. Divided societies, hatred and a lack of understanding for other opinions, no willingness to compromise, etc.

Of course, it will not work as a single. But as an importan piece of inspiration. So they should defenitely release it.

Did you know, that Michael already "leaked" a part of the lyrics in the year 1999!?

Michael unveiled an inscription at Everland theme park in Yongin, South Korea. At that time, the info, that it came from an unreleased HIStory-demo was unknown. The Inscription reads: (thanks to onmjfootsteps.com)

"Let Us Dream of A Tomorrow, Where We Can Truly Love From The Soul, And Know Love As The Ultimate Truth At The Heart of All Creation." - Michael Jackson - 22nd June, 1999

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An in-depth look at the lyrics: (thanks to Vanita, for jackson.ch)

Faces
Written by Michael Jackson

These are the worst of times and these are the best of times. (1.)
Racism, bigotry, ego centrism, prejudice, hatred and violence are breaking the heart of our planet and strangling its soul. (2.)
And yet we are coming alive, as never before!

Nelson Mandela: a black man, a former symbol of subjugation and slavery, guides South Africa. (3.)
Democracy and freedom flourish as never before and a new consciousness proclaims the dawn of the Age of Enlightenment (4.), where survival of the fittest (5.) is replaced by survival of the wisest (6.)

Let us dream of the great and sudden splendor of a new tomorrow.
Let us dream of the full flowering of a new collective consciousness. (7.)
Let us dream of a tomorrow where we can hold our heads high (8.) and stretch our arms toward perfection. (9.)

Let us dream of a tomorrow where we no longer fragment and fracture our global village (10.) with narrow domestic walls (11.), where tribalism no longer services under the pretense of nationalism and patriotic fervor and where we can truly live from the soul and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

Let us dream of [a] tomorrow where our children are nurtured and protected and nursed and our elders revered and honored and venerated. Let us dream of peace and harmony and laughter. Let us dream of joy and ecstasy. Let us dream of dancing the cosmic dance (12.).
And, as we dream, let us remember those who dared to dream before us and sacrificed their yesterday, so we could have our tomorrow!

Explanations: (by Vanita for jackson.ch, translated by DeepL)

1. Allusion to chapter 1 of the historical novel “A tale of two cities” by Charles Dickens: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. ”

2. formulation as in “Heal the world”

3. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a famous activist against South African apartheid, was imprisoned and later became the country's first black president. In 1993, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work.

4. The Age of Enlightenment began around 1700 and refers to the philosophical and intellectual movement in Europe and North America that emphasized the importance of reason and thus promoted progress.

5. Charles Darwin described in his theory of evolution that the creatures that are best adapted to the respective circumstances continue to exist. “Survival of the fittest” has often been mistranslated as ‘survival of the fittest’.

6. “Wisdom” again refers to the Dickens novel (see above)

7. In sociology, collective consciousness refers to the shared feelings, ideas and values of a society, e.g. language, ethics, law, knowledge.

8. allusion to the poem “Where the mind is without fear” by Rabindranath Tagore: “Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high”

9. further allusion to the above-mentioned poem: “Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection”

10. in media theory, the global village is the term for an increasingly closely networked world.

11. further allusion to the above poem: “Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls”

12. in Hinduism, the god Shiva dances the cosmic dance of creation and destruction.

Source: jackson.ch/artikel
 
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