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Veröffentlicht am 10.08.2012 von MyWhoisit
Michael Jackson used samples from Rod Serlings Series The Twilight Zone and created a Rap out of this excerpts for his song THREATENED. At one point I chose to look at this episodes and the stories fit perfect to his public life. It's like an autobiography he wanted to tell the fans in his own special way.
This Video is my attempt to describe how the publics fear was/is a constant companion of the public life of Michael Jackson and how he react to it in his phenomenal artistic way.
It's also my interpretation of his song and the broad field behind THREATENED.
At times -- especially after 1993 -- Michael Jackson was dealing with mass hysteria and the fear of the unfamiliar around his public persona. Jackson made a clear point in his short -- film "Michael Jacksons -- Ghosts". The villagers -- the public - from a place called Normal Valley, are scared of the Maestro (Michael Jackson) because he doesn't fit their definition of "normal". And they want to drive him out of town because of that fear. Just like the characters act in the Twilight Episode "The Fear". They do not know what the point of her fear exactly is. It is probably too much imagination.
The only problem is: What is fear all about?
"The major ingredient of any recipe for fear is the unknown." Michael Jackson was a master in many fields: But how is it possible, that the world's greatest entertainer can be at the same time a synonym for the unknown.
"It depends on, who must look up and who can look down". I really think it's the perfect episode for Michael Jackson for his song THREATENED. And I think it's not a coincidence that he made a deliberate choice to make it clearer for us to understand what he's singing about.
The only option to understand what he wants to tell us is "to look at it (his music) in layers you understand it better."
If you are interested, you can watch the other excerpts of the song here:
Michael Jackson's REAL story behind THREATENED -- "It's a good life!" Pt. I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1My6f6vBXeY
Michael Jackson's REAL story behind THREATENED -- "The Bard" -- Pt.II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnp34Swp1vI
Michael Jackson's REAL story behind THREATENED -- "In his image" -- Pt.III
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRg2DxWHk5c
Michael Jackson's REAL story behind THREATENED -- "Never-Neverland" -- Pt. IV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlL12cs0Lu4
Michael Jackson' s REAL story behind THREATENED -- "Judgement Night" -- Pt. V
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…UUxjEudzm6_9Eehb96dUVGhw&...