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Michael To Be Featured In March Issue of Paste Magazine

and says that "the last few years have been so upsetting to those of us who've loved him--nobody in his right mind would choose to act the way he has." i don't think they mean to bash him by saying that most of the article gives him credit for brilliance.
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Well, no offense, but that comment was ignorant. MJ was falsely accused. He did not do anything but trusted the wrong people. That is all.

I have to get more opinions from fans who read the article so that I can see if I will spend my money on this magazine. I really wanna give this magazine, like all magazines a benefit of a doubt, but after this media trashed this man, hell no. LOL. However, thanks for your input.
 
I'm not giving them my money if they're going to side-swipe Michael with stupid comments. I'll wait for somebody else to see this and see what they say.
 
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See, that is the kind of thing that I really can't stand. I want them to write an article that is positive without the underlying snide comments. I don't know if it would be a good one or not... :(
 
thanks guys! Looks like i'm goin to borders today to see if they have it!

of course I'm gonna read it first before decide if i wanna buy it!!!
 
Ok, sooooo I bought 'paste' today from borders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHOOO!
 
jaydom7 said:
why?? the article sounds defamatory
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because it was a good article, minus a few things that were said, that were by no means horrific. If it was a bad article, i would not have brought it. have you read it?
 
MJsPYT1 said:
because it was a good article, minus a few things that were said, that were by no means horrific. If it was a bad article, i would not have brought it. have you read it?
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So, give the details. What did youthink about it? What rating would you give?
 
Bee1983 said:
So, give the details. What did youthink about it? What rating would you give?
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weeeellllllllll, I'll type some parts out:

"The moonwalk? It was jaw-dropping, one of the last dance moves to become a cultural phenomenon. Everybody saw it, everybody knew it, everybody was stunned by it.(When he debuted the move in 1983, during a 25th anniversary concert celebration for Motown Records, the audience responded with a bewildered shreik- they'd never seen anything like it.) This was not the Macarena, a wedding dance, an asine hand jive drunken bubbas could do in the stands at NFL games. The moonwalk was other worldly. We didn't know a body could move like that- our bodies couldn't move like that. The moonwalk belonged, and still belongs, to Michael. Have you ever seen anyone else attempt his signature move? Not long ago I caught a concert by teenaged R&B star, Chris Brown, who is sort of a less charismatic version of Usher, who himself is a less charismatic version of MJ. And at this show, Brown wanted to pay tribute to someone he'd idolized since he was two years old, and so without mentioning the artist's name he donned a sequin glove and danced to three MJ songs of early vintage. And when it came time for him to do the inevitable moonwalk, Brown-ordinarily a good dancer- turned his body sideways and strolled backwards across the stage. It was all walk, no moon.

MJ was probably the last male entertainer to be as famous for his dancing as his singing. Fred Astaire was, James Brown was, Michael Jackson was. Today we're left with Chris Brown, Usher and Justin Timberlake, whose most famous stage move to date involved ripping the bodice of Michael Jackson's sister. When our male pop artists stop dancing, it signals an important change in roles we expect them to play. Although dancing favors grace over strenght, it also requires extraordinary athleticism- dance, in other words, is an act of balance. Today, though, we either want our men tough or cuddly. We want them to be either gangsta roughnecks or sensitive emo boys. The third way, the middle way, no longer exsists. Jay-Z does not dance. Kenny Chesney does not dance. Bono does not dance. When we lode our dancers. we lose glamour and sensuality, we lose the exquisite interplay between physical and vocal performance. We lose a fundamental level of human expression. In some African languages, the words for "music" and "dance" are the same- Michael Jackson embodied that sameness through the 1980's. And pop music has been out of balance ever since."


ok, I'm gonna type some more....
 
"I miss the shared cultural experience that only a star of this magnitude could create. I miss the way MTV used to hype Michael Jackson videos, and the way EVERYONE used to crowd around the tv to watch them...Thriller is certainly the most influential music video of all time, the one that thrust videos into the realm or art, the catalyst that completed the transition of music from an audio medium to an audio-visual medium. Artists almost never break big today with radio airplay alone..."


"Michael also changed the notion of superstardom. He blew it up bigger than anyone in his generation, and bigger than anyone after....For fans, though, it creates a sense of awe. Celebrities don't really make us awestruck anymore. They annoy us with their ubiquity, like mosquitoes. In a weird way, they're not famous enough. We now have more stars than ever, but fewer megastars. Maya Arulpragasam, the Sri Lankan expatriate musician who records as M.I.A., once told me that when se moved to London she knew four words in English: "mango", "elephant", and "Michael Jackson". That's the sort of fame I'm talking about- Muhammed Ali fame, Princess Diana fame- the kind of fame that elevated human beings to Godlike status. There's something awesome about the whole world singing the same song or watching the same music video, worshipping at the same altar."

ok, i'm typing more......
 
ok, so i REALLY love the parts of the article where he praises MJ, but the author obviously thinks that the trial really damaged MJ's "persona", and that MJ isn't the same as he used to be. The author doesn't ever say MJ is guilty, but he does refer to the trial a few times, and he says that mj's image is tarnished, and he also says that nobody would act how mj does now. He also refers to mj's crotch grabbing, saying the glove "was a sheath for fingers that drifted uncomfortably often towards the singer's crotch, fingers that would come to be accused of fondling little boys"
That's alot of the negative


he also says:

"I miss those songs. I miss those dance steps. I miss both his supernatural look and his ecstatic pop sensibility, and I miss the way we were when we let him carry us away."

"the glove, for starters. The white sequined glove pulled tight over on of his dainty hands, hands that would come to symbolize his undoing. The glove: An iconic accessory like Woody Allen's glasses or George Burns' cigar. It was a real-life Superman cape, a garment with transformative power. The glove made him mysterious........Back in the 80's, we fans allowed ourelves to obsess over something as quaint as a pop star's handwear............"

ok, I cant type anymore, and i almost typed most of the article!!

anyway, for me personally, I don't even like people who make even the littlest joke about MJ. I'm an "MJ all the way" and, "if you don't like MJ, I don't like you" kind of person. I think the author may have brought up the trial subject too much..... I don't really know, but he never says MJ is guilty. Some of the things, I can admit, I didn't like, like him saying MJ is weird now, but the author is obviously in awe of MJ in the 80's. I'll say this: for me, a die hard fan, I was upset with a couple of lines (maybe cause i'm an over the top fan), but I wasn't angry. The author harped a bit on MJ's "disgrace" (the trial).

I don't know what to tell u. Someone will probably post the whole thing, or you can buy it and decide for yourself. It's about 90% super positive. I just have this thing for reading people praising MJ and his affect and his greatness. I like most of the article, and you all can make your own decisions about it.


*and for the record I never ever said that a million nice things said about MJ cancel out anything not-so-nice said about mj ( i heard someone say that to someone on another thread) I don't feel that way AT ALL. Cause I'll never say anything negative about MJ to anyone!!

honestly, I saw the mag in the store, and the beautiful cover made me run to the cashier (who looked just like the guy who plays Freddy Kreuger!) and pay. I read it when I got home, and while reading it, at parts I was SOOO proud of MJ for doing what he's done, and I wished I was alive to be there to witness the thriller madness and real music and superstardom and i had chills...and a few times i thought: "that could've been left out."

Sorry so long, but i feel like i have to make myself clear, cause if i was one of you guys, I'd jump all over me!!! I guess that's it for now
 
:huh:How dissappointing. The fact that he has the need to bring up that nasty, uncalled for trial is enough to turn me off from buying the mag. That author obviously needs to educate himself or shut up. IMO. :mad:

Oh well, his lost, of a buyer, that is.
 
Thanks for your review.

*Sigh* Well, I am not going to buy the magazine. Even bringing up the trial and implying that MJ is a "disgrace" turns me off. I do not understand why people cannot accept the fact that someone was falsely accused of a crime. I mean, damn.

but the author is obviously in awe of MJ in the 80's
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And that is the problem. In the 1980s, MJ cannot go wrong. MJ cannot make mistakes, everyone loved MJ. However, once MJ was falsely accused of a crime, everyone, it seems, trashed MJ and regret being fans. The writer of that article is one of them. He is not a true fan, imo, because a true fan knows what MJ is about. A true fans knows the themedia will bring you up just to tear you down. A true fan stays by Michael. That person did not do that. He just reminisned on a time that will never happened again because todays stars do not have that special talent that MJ has. It is all about image not being a superstar. That is the real problem. The writer might great points about superstardom and that MJ is the last great entertainer, but the writer wasted his talent on lies instead of looking at the big story and make an opinion.

Michael image is tarnished - that is an opinion. That is not a fact. Thriller solidified his legacy, no matter what happens to him. The media loves to ruin true talent. The media has the power to convince the public that MJ is "damaged goods" and IMO, that is not the case. "Damage goods" and a "tarnished image" is Britney Spears.

Anyway, is there a way that you can scan the pictures since I am not going to spend my money on garbage?

Thanks again.
 
Bee1983 said:
Thanks for your review.

*Sigh* Well, I am not going to buy the magazine. Even bringing up the trial and implying that MJ is a "disgrace" turns me off. I do not understand why people cannot accept the fact that someone was falsely accused of a crime. I mean, damn.



And that is the problem. In the 1980s, MJ cannot go wrong. MJ cannot make mistakes, everyone loved MJ. However, once MJ was falsely accused of a crime, everyone, it seems, trashed MJ and regret being fans. The writer of that article is one of them. He is not a true fan, imo, because a true fan knows what MJ is about. A true fans knows the themedia will bring you up just to tear you down. A true fan stays by Michael. That person did not do that. He just reminisned on a time that will never happened again because todays stars do not have that special talent that MJ has. It is all about image not being a superstar. That is the real problem. The writer might great points about superstardom and that MJ is the last great entertainer, but the writer wasted his talent on lies instead of looking at the big story and make an opinion.

Michael image is tarnished - that is an opinion. That is not a fact. Thriller solidified his legacy, no matter what happens to him. The media loves to ruin true talent. The media has the power to convince the public that MJ is "damaged goods" and IMO, that is not the case. "Damage goods" and a "tarnished image" is Britney Spears.

Anyway, is there a way that you can scan the pictures since I am not going to spend my money on garbage?

Thanks again.
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I might be able to scan them when i get back to my dorm room, but maybe not till Monday.Not any new pics though, i dont think. I agree with everything you said. You can't really be a fan of someone if you only like tham at one point in their lives. Most of us here on the board are MJ fans then, now, and forever.
but i think he meant the trial was mj's disgrace, not that mj is a disgrace. who knows? the whole article was his opinion, which I stated that i didnt agree with 100%
I bought it, I've got tons of mj mags from the 70's till now. guess it'll go with the pile.
 
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