Heartbreak Hotel - autobiographisch

Live and sin
Ten years ago on this day,
my heart was yearning
I promised I would never ever be returning
Where my baby broke my heart
and left me yearning

als der Song 1980 rauskommt, ist Michael 10 Jahre im Business, er singt: vor zehn jahren hat sich mein Herz danach gesehnt, ich habe versprochen, nie dorthin zurückzukehren, wo mein Baby mein Herz gebrochen hat und mich sehnsüchtig zurückgelassen hat
ich glaube, damit ist die Sehnsucht der verlorenen Kindheit gemeint, und das wirft er in Wirklichkeit Katherine vor, die ihn nicht davor bewahrt hat
und er ist schon zurückgekehrt und sündigt selbst weiter, beraubt sich eines Lebens in Freiheit, indem er zum Megastar wird, erst Gefangener des tyrannischen Vaters, dann 1979 Off the Wall, und zwei Jahre nach Heartbreak Hotel macht ihn Thriller zum Gefangenen der Fans, der Neider und der Presse

more to come...

As we walked into the room, there were faces
Saring, glaring, tearing through me
Someone said welcome to your doom
Then they smiled with eyes that
looked as if they knew me
This is scaring me

We walked up the stairs
still concealing gloom
There were two girls sitting in My room
She walked up to my face
And said this is the place
You said meet you right here at noon

Hope is dead
She thought that I had
cheated for another lover
I turn my back to see that I am undercover
Now I can't convince this girl
there ain't no other

Someone's evil to hurt my soul
Every smile's trial thought in beguile
To hurt me
Then the man next door had told
He's been here in tears for fifteen years
This is scaring me

We came to this place,
where the vicious dwell
And found that wicked women
run this strange hotel
There was Sefra and Sue,
Every girl that I knew
And my baby said love is through

und das passt perfekt hier rein:

CD: You are without doubt the greatest entertainer that ever lived. Looking back did you ever think you would be the king of pop?

MJ: (laughter).. Wow.. Thank you so much... That's wonderful of you to say. I don't think I ever really had a grip on what we did until thriller. When I was a child I didn't understand it all. Joseph would give us checks each week from Barry and I was ten, eleven years old and had hundreds of thousands of dollars handed to me each week and all I wanted was a friend to play ball with and a pack of bubblegum. I can really tell you with all honesty that when I was younger I wanted to stop and just be a child with the astonishment of the world.

CD: You say that it came to life for you with Thriller. What do you mean by that?

MJ: A lot of people don't know this but thriller was mine. I had it in my head from the days of being with my brothers playing clubs at two or three in the morning. Because I could never play with children or join a baseball team I would stay up late into the night and write poems and stories. I remember I would fantasize about what I wrote and I guess a lot of what came out was my dreams of what I really wanted. I kept everything I ever wrote and when I was making thriller I took some of what I composed and adapted it into the album of which I'm very proud of. Because thriller was my own creativity, it made me really fall in love with the music because for the first time I was able to express myself and release all these emotions and if you listen to the album and i mean really listen you can hear that I wrote most of those songs from the soul.

CD: Michael you were the king of the stage since day one. You didn't have to work at it, you had it and gave it to the world. Do you have any regrets?

MJ: Again hank you for such kinds words. That's wonderful. I was talking with one of my dear friends the other day and we were I guess reflecting on the past and I think if I could have changed anything it would have been the chance to be a child for just a little while. I remember going to and from the studios and seeing children play and how all i wanted was to be one of them. I would have traded anything in the world to change places with them just for the day

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den Titel des Songs (Heartbreak Hotel) sehe ich als Synonym für die Musikbranche, die einem das Herz brechen kann. In Moonwalk schreibt er: "Deshalb verstehe ich auch nicht, dass andere Berühmtheiten sagen, sie wollen nicht, dass ihre Kinder ins Showgeschäft gehen. Ich glaube, sie sagen das, weil man ihnen dort wehgetan hat. Ich kenne das Showgeschäft."

Then they smiled with eyes that
looked as if they knew me
This is scaring me

Hier gehts offenbar um die leeches, wie Michael sie genannt hat, die Blutsauger im Business, die alle so tun, als würden sie ihn schon lange kennen, nur um aus ihm Profit zu schlagen. Und das macht ihm Angst (This is scaring me). Deshalb hat er sich auch immer so allein gefühlt.
Die message findet sich in abgewandelter Form in Billie Jean und Dirty Diana, da wollen Groopies von seinem Ruhm profitieren.
Ich finde, Heartbreak Hotel nimmt vieles schon vorweg in Michaels Leben und ist auch ein stückweit visionär.