Re: People Want Too Sing

Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 12:29:22 -0400
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Alan that's interesting that you would put that MJ lyric at the end.
Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' is one of my ALL-TIME favorite MJ songs. He was
inspired when he came up with that part. Well he was inspired when he came
up with this whole damn song!
But the way most of the song was sung attitudinal & all & then this
affirmation/declarational part that you put at the end here....It was
totally different from how the rest of the lyric part was formed. Feels
phoenix-like.
And you know what gets me the most? I have heard that Michael, that
unceasable perfectionist, still wasn't satisfied with how this song came
out. He didn't feel that he expressed everything he wanted in the song.
Whew coulda fooled me! Everything from the rhythm to the percussion to the
funny delivery of those lyrics to the "Mama-se mama-sa mama-ku-sa Help me
sang it!"..EVERYTHING was top-notch!
Wonder why he didn't see the song for what it is. It's one of his
masterpieces.
Anyway just had to comment on that. I know that wasn't what this post was
supposed to be about.
John Lucas
"alan jones" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
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> === People Want To Sing
>
> People want to sing, to claim a song as their own, they want to
> share the words and spirit of a song. Not just as a fashion, but
> an understanding of ourselves, of life.
>
> Beyond production and hype, words and ideas matter, the clothes
> or words, the shape it creates for emotions, the blues the reds the
> other colour it allows.
>
> People need to sing, not rap or shout, not copy without emotion,
> not bark or curse, but sing ,moved by the thoughtful combination
> of words and music.
>
> The trend of mature pop artists to cover the classic show tunes
> of yesterday says something about our time, and the limits of its
> modern voice.
>
> It not enough to shake your head to the predictable groove, its
> not enough to dance, if it were we would be content to dance to
> a dripping tap, to any and everything.
>
> Sometimes what we need most, is the voice that says, what you
> need to hear. The mind that transplant itself upon you, lifting you,
> shaping and directing you, to better and greater. Sometimes what
> you want, is to sing out loud a feeling, knowing that feeling is
> heard and shared too.
>
> People need songs like they need to smile. The blanket of thought
> to wrap itself around you, "things will get better trust me", a thought
> to build and support you, language is thought as thought is language,
> The song, a shape for thoughts.
>
>
> "Lift your head up high, and scream out to the world
> I known I am someone, and let the truth unfurl
> No one can hurt you now, because you know what's true
> Yes, I believe in me, so you believe in you"
>
> Wanna be starting something - Michael Jackson - Thriller
>
>