是他,把慈善當成是第二職業;是他,把黑人布魯斯和白人搖滾融為一體,并賦予了音樂豐富的肢體語言。他的音樂生涯所產生的熱度,就像一顆繞過地球的巨型流星;他一人開創了多項記錄,締造了一場音樂的盛宴,讓全世界的人都一同見證了這一奇觀。
M.J.’s Early DaysMJ的早年生涯
1)Barry Gordie’s Assistant: My gosh! That’s pretty special, ’cause this little tiny boy was singing with all the soul and passion of a 35-year-old man.
A black group shattering mainstream barriers and a little boy, the 2)obsessive force driving it all.
Barry Gordie’s Assistant: His brothers might be outside, you know, playing basketball, but he’d be watching the producers mix a record or asking Barry Gordie 1001 questions about producing and about the business and about why this, why that?
Gordie: And then I realized that he was studying me. Later I realized, of course, he’d not only studied me but he studied everybody, from 3)Walt Disney, Marcel Marceau, James Brown, Jackie Wilson, you know, all these people he was really studying.
貝里·戈迪的助理:我的天啊!那真的很特別,因為這個小不點兒唱歌所投入的感情和熱忱活像一個35歲的男人。
一個黑人組合沖破了音樂主流的邊界,一個小男孩,以一股令人著迷的力量推動著這一切的發生。
貝里·戈迪的助理:你知道,他的哥哥們也許就在外頭打籃球,而他則在觀察制作人對音樂專輯進行混音,或向貝里·戈迪問無數個關于制作上或和這行業有關的問題,問這問那的。
戈迪:然后我意識到他在向我學習。當然,后來我也意識到,他不單只是學我,他還學華特·迪斯尼、馬塞爾·馬索、詹姆士·布朗、杰基·威爾遜,你也知道,所有的這些人都成了他的學習對象。
The 4)Jackie Robinson of MTV MTV史上第一位黑人歌手
Among his many other 5)accolades, Michael Jackson would be called “The Jackie Robinson of MTV,” the man whose video for “Billy Jean” opened the door for so many other African-American performers to get 6)big-time air time on the channel.
Music Producer: Michael Jackson helped invent the idea of music as a very visual media.
Those big-budget videos that launched the careers and set the personas of artists from Madonna to 7)Diddy to Britney; Michael made all that possible by dropping half a million on “Thriller.”
與其他美譽并稱,邁克爾·杰克遜還被譽為“音樂電視的杰基·魯濱遜”,他的《比莉·吉恩》音樂錄像為眾多非裔美國藝人進入音樂頻道的黃金時段開啟了大門。
音樂制作人:把音樂變為一種視覺效果很強的媒介,邁克爾·杰克遜促使這一理念成為現實。
那些高投入的音樂錄像成功塑造了麥當娜、吹牛老爹、布蘭妮等人的藝人形象并使得他們的演藝事業展翅騰飛;這全憑邁克爾創先河斥資50萬(美元)拍攝《顫栗》。……