对Michael Jackson专家Charles Thomson的采访 （翻译完）

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Charles Thomson是一位很有名的Michael Jackson方面的作家和记者，他写的那一片文章《Chandler的自杀彰显了媒体对Jackson的偏见》（http://www.mjjcn.com/mjjcnforum/ ... t=Charles%2BThomson），估计不少同学看过，我很喜欢他的文，他的文很冷静，资料丰富，让我受益不少。这是最近Lorette Luzajic（另一作为为MJ歌迷的作家，最近的出版的新书'Goodbye Billie Jean: The Meaning of Michael Jackson'据说也很不错）对Charles Thomson采访的记录（http://extrememichaeljackson.wor ... rt-charles-thomson/），我先前发的帖子关于MJ911期间资助歌迷的内容就是从中而来的，有的tx说国内上不了这个网，我就转过来了。很精彩的文章，延续了他一贯的批驳媒体对MJ的偏见的态度，，有一些对MJ的分析（非常冷静，恐怕有不少TX会不太舒服），也有一些温馨的回忆。翻译我会慢慢放上来的。

Lorette C. Luzajic talks with Michael Jackson Expert Charles Thomson

Thanks so much to Charles Thomson for taking the time to talk with me. Charles  is an award winningwriter best known for his work on James Brown and other soul musicians. He writes for The Guardian, The Sun, Huffington Post, MOJO, Wax Poetics, and more. Please visit him at http://www.charles-thomson.net.

Why are you considered a “Michael Jackson expert?”

I’m a fan of black music generally and discovered Michael Jackson at a young age. Over the years I’ve amassed a vast collection of black music books, magazines, CDs, DVDs, videotapes and more. There are a few artists who I’ve always found particularly interesting – people like James Brown, Chuck Berry, Prince – and Michael Jackson is one of them. As such, I’ve have had nearly 15 years of ‘study time’ – reading stacks of books, watching documentaries and so on.

I only began working as a Michael Jackson ‘expert’ last year. In March 2009 I received a tip-off from somebody in Michael’s camp, who gave me specific details about his arrival in London to announce the This Is It shows. They told me which airstrip he was flying into, what time he was landing and where he would be staying. My source asked me to leak the information.

I worked on that tip-off with the Sun, which is Britain’s biggest newspaper. They used the info to snap exclusive pictures of Jackson disembarking his private jet. Once I had delivered an exclusive of that magnitude, the Sun decided to keep using me and I’ve worked with them frequently since then.

My most recent Michael Jackson contribution was the Sun’s exclusive revelation that filmmakers had dubbed old vocals into ‘This Is It’. That story really illustrates my role perfectly. When I saw the film I noticed immediately that the vocals during the latter half of Earth Song were dubbed in from Michael’s 1991 demo. Only a fan or an expert would notice that. Similarly, I noticed the lyric change in Billie Jean and realized that the vocals on that track were also dubbed in from a demo.

I passed my notes to the Sun, who hired audio experts to confirm that the vocals were old and eventually got a Sony rep to admit it.

That might sound like a negative story but I didn’t like the deceit involved – selling tickets to a ‘documentary’ but not really delivering one. A documentary should be truthful and honest. It shouldn’t be dubbed to paint an inaccurate picture. I also felt that the dubbed vocals could be there to disguise something – something that might blow apart the filmmakers’ claims that they had no idea Michael Jackson was experiencing ill-health or using drugs. I didn’t think I should let it go unreported.

You stood within metres of Michael Jackson. Did you feel it? What is it exactly that is emanating off of him to cause mass faintings, millions of  tattoos, crazy love, wild and absurd sexual desire, sobbing, loyalty, hysteria, even madness?

The first time I saw him up close, at the World Music Awards in 2006, was quite exciting because there seemed to be a mass hysteria around his appearance. It felt like an event. The place blew up when he finally appeared onstage. He certainly looked striking – different to his photographs. He was incredibly slender, particularly given that he was approaching fifty. He walked very majestically, almost like he was floating. He was impeccably dressed and his face looked, dare I say it, quite normal – certainly a lot better than it looked in most photos. But for all the hysteria, after he’d left the stage I felt a little empty. To be honest, I think that 1993 drained a lot of the joy out of him and the trial killed most of what was left. He seemed to just be going through the motions.

At the announcement in March 2009 something just didn’t feel right. I’d heard that Jackson was supposed to fly over a week previously to announce the gigs but had pulled out (you’ll read more about that in Randy Taraborrelli’s updated biog, due out in Summer). Also, he was very late on the day of the announcement (more on that in Taraborrelli’s book, too) and the PR people seemed to be slightly on edge in the press room.

I had dinner with a group of friends right afterwards inside the O2 complex and we all agreed that something had seemed wrong. He had sounded like he didn’t want to be there – ‘This is the final curtain call, OK?’ – and rather than feeling excited I just felt like the whole thing was doomed from the beginning. Although I bought tickets and hoped the shows would go ahead, deep down I expected the concerts to be cancelled for one reason or another.

I don’t really think I can comment on what it was about Michael Jackson which elicited the hysteria often exhibited by his fans, because I think that whatever it was, after 1993 it wasn’t really there anymore. It was as though all the soul had been stamped out of him; like you were watching the shell of Michael Jackson but his essence had long since dissipated.

Although I’ve loved Michael for nearly a quarter century, I never actually contemplated how I would feel when he died. I’ve felt desperate, devastating grief with the loss of a man I never actually met. Do you think the kind of energy of love that Michael put out there, the feeling that he personally loves each and every one of us, is real? Can art make that real, or is his love- and ours- an illusion?

Michael’s concern for people certainly seemed genuine – you don’t give away millions of dollars unless you really believe in the cause. Nor do you open your home to strangers unless you really want to.

However, after 1993 he never seemed quite the same. As I said earlier, it was like all of the joy had been stamped out of him. He reiterated the same sentiments as before but now they felt more like catchphrases than heartfelt messages. He seemed to speak almost entirely in repetitive soundbites: ‘I love you more’. ‘The best is yet to come’. ‘Burn the tabloids’. It was like he was on autopilot.

In truth, I think he was bored and fed up with being Michael Jackson. I think he just wanted a quiet life but felt under pressure to be Michael Jackson all the time.

What makes Michael different?

As an artist, Michael Jackson had the complete package. He could sing, dance, write and compose. Little Richard once called Michael Jackson the ‘most complete artist’ he ever knew. Michael Jackson, at his peak, raised the bar for quality as both a recording artist and a live performer.

But there have other artists who could sing, dance, write and compose. James Brown and Prince both spring to mind but there are plenty more. However, none of them inspired the same hysteria and adulation as Michael Jackson. I think it was his personality that his fans really bought into. Michael Jackson’s relationship with his fans went beyond posing for the occasional picture or signing the odd autograph.

For instance, in 2001 he played two concerts in New York – one on September 7th and one on September 10th. The terrorist attacks happened on the 11th and many fans who had flown to New York to see Michael Jackson were left stranded with little or no money. Jackson tracked down some of those fans and covered them financially, paying for their hotels while they were stuck in NY and then funding their trips home. There aren’t many other artists who would do that.

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You mentioned how hard your own grief was. In light of the many interesting the world mourned Michael, what course did your experience take?

Grief is a strong word – I don’t think I’ve ever said I experienced grief after Michael Jackson’s death. Shock, certainly. Sadness too. But I have always taken a very rational approach to Michael Jackson – I never felt personally connected to him in any way. I appreciated him as an artist but I wasn’t afraid to address his shortcomings. I’ve never defended his prolific miming or his decision to let kids into his bedroom or the baby-dangling incident.

A lot of people saw Michael Jackson as an intricate part of their lives – like a friend or a family member – but I always saw him as an entertainer whose work I admired. I was saddened by the loss and I think his story is as tragic as it is triumphant. I feel sorry that he will miss watching his children grow up and it’s a shame that he fought tooth and nail to survive his trial only to die four years later having not done a whole lot in the interim. But I didn’t get dressed up in mourning gear or make any plans to travel to LA. Did I shed a few tears during the televised memorial? Of course I did. But so did an estimated billion other people.

I believe the witch-hunt and eventual lynching of Michael Jackson speaks volumes about our gladiatorial darkness, the spectre of the Inquisition and the Burning Times, the joy we used to take in public hangings and stonings.  So why Michael Jackson, the one we loved most?

I interviewed Aphrodite Jones in 2008 for a now defunct magazine called Deadline. The article is on my website. She made a comment during the interview about the public’s enjoyment of the ‘lynching’ of celebrities: “There’s this ghoulish sense of everyday people taking pleasure in witnessing the downfall of celebrities; this morbid sense of glee at watching those better off than ourselves being punished for their success.”

I think Jackson was targeted by the media primarily because he was the most famous man on the planet. Big name + big story = big revenue. I think it also irritated the media - understandably – that Jackson kept stitching them up. At his peak Jackson was forever planting stories about himself, then publicly whinging about them and urging his fans to boycott newspapers! You can see why that would have got up their noses.

Many think he may have been targeted on account of his race and I think it would be shortsighted to rule that out entirely. I often compare Jackson to Jack Johnson, the world’s first black Heavyweight Boxing Champion. Johnson’s media treatment was unarguably racist, and Jackson’s media treatment has been unarguably similar; name-calling, rampant misquoting, bogus stories, derogatory cartoons, biased coverage of criminal allegations – so on and so forth.

Just as Johnson was a black world champion more than fifty years before segregation was lifted, Jackson was a black man who outsold Elvis and owned the Beatles in an era when MTV still didn’t like putting African Americans on its TV channels.

You can trace it on a timeline; Before Thriller hit, Jackson was already getting surgery. His make-up was already lightening and his voice was already high. His friends were already young. As long as Jackson was only successful within his own racial parameters, the media didn’t care. But the moment Thriller broke white records – the moment he outsold Elvis and started buying white musicians’ publishing – the media was suddenly interested in his surgery, his light skin, his high voice and his young friends. The moment Jackson threatened the status quo, he became a target.

Arguably, like Johnson, he was seen as a black man who didn’t know his place.

What is undeniable is that in certain areas of the media there is a blatant and concerted attempt to slander Michael Jackson as frequently as possible. Facts are intentionally misstated and false information is intentionally represented as truth. That much is unarguable.

My knee-jerk response to Evan Chandler’s suicide was hardly charitable, though if I judged everyone for the mess they made out of their own lives, I’d have to judge myself most harshly. But I can’t deny that my immediate response was, “What, couldn’t live with the guilt?” Of course, Chandler’s health and fractured family were no doubt contributing factors. The question here is why no one knows this story. Surely, it should be slathered over every paper, not meted out in a page 17 dribble, given its sensationalism. You talk about media bias. Why has no one heard about Evan Chandler trying to kill Jordan, a few years back, with a gym barbell and some mace? Wouldn’t both of these stories pay big time, too?

I think the primary reason Evan Chandler’s death wasn’t widely reported is because nobody knew anything about him. Most major outlets covered the story but all of their articles contained exactly the same information because so little was known.

The only in-depth report I saw was a totally factually inaccurate feature in the Daily Mail, which I reported to the Press Complaints Commission for breaching about seven sections of the Code of Practice, including an overt reference to Jackson as ‘a common paedophile’. Unsurprisingly, they found no merit to my complaint. They don’t seem to be interested when newspapers baselessly accuse an innocent black man of paedophilia.

And yet, if the Daily Mail referred to Paul McCartney as a ‘common paedophile’, I think the PCC would probably have something to say about it.

That story about Evan trying to kill his son didn’t suit the media’s agenda. It portrayed Evan as a violent and shady character and suggested that the pair’s relationship was far from tight-knit or functional, lending credibility to claims that Jordy despised his father for apparently forcing him to lie in 1993. That story about Evan trying to kill Jordy with a barbell – it shattered the myth of Evan as the doting father who just wanted justice for his son.

The timing was particularly bad for the media as the incident happened shortly after Jackson’s 2005 trial, during which most outlets had routinely skewed evidence and testimony in order to portray Jackson as guilty. Their first accuser discrediting himself [again] didn’t quite tally with the picture they’d been trying to paint.

Ending on a lighter note, what are your personal Michael Jackson faves (songs, videos, moments, etc.)

My favourite solo albums are Off The Wall and Thriller but I also rank the Jacksons albums Destiny and Triumph alongside them. Michael actually had more creative input on Destiny and Triumph than he did on Off The Wall and Thriller and I think the albums are just as good – those albums are where Jackson really flourished as a lyricist and a composer. His later work becomes patchy for me – too processed.

In terms of live performance, I like everything from the Destiny Tour up to the Bad Tour.

Bad Tour is easily the pinnacle of Jackson’s career as a solo performer. What he did with that tour was to successfully merge the spectacle you expected from a pop concert with the musical legitimacy you expected from a James Brown concert. So you got all live music and vocals, but you also got great costumes, great dancing and so on. On subsequent tours the focus seemed to shift away from the music and towards the spectacle, so you had tanks driving onstage or angels floating out of the rafters – but you forfeited the live vocals. I would rather have the live experience than the tank. I’d never even consider buying a ticket to a concert if I knew it was going to be mimed.

My three favourite videos are Thriller, Smooth Criminal and Remem

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Lorette C. Luzajic与Michael Jackson专家Charles Thomson的交谈

非常感谢Charles Thomson能抽时间和我谈话。Charles是一位获奖的作者，他以对James Brown和其他灵歌音乐家的研究著称。他在The Guardian, The Sun, Huffington Post, MOJO, Wax Poetics等多家出版物上发表文章，请访问他的网址，http://www.charles-thomson.net.

为什么你会被认为是一个“Michael Jackson 专家?”

我是黑人音乐的歌迷，从年轻时起就发现了Michael Jackson。这些年来，我搜集了很多有关黑人音乐的书籍，杂志，CDs, DVDs, 录像带等等。有几个艺术家我总是很感兴趣--象James Brown, Chuck Berry, Prince – 而Michael Jackson是其中之一。 像这样，我花了近15年的时间研究--读一堆堆的书，看纪录片等等。

我仅仅是从去年开始成为一个Michael Jackson ‘专家’的。在2009年3月，我从Michael的团队中的某人那里得到一个线报，他给了我他到达伦敦宣布他This Is It表演的特别细节。他们告诉我他会在那条跑道降落，什么时间降落，以及他会在何处下榻。我的消息来源要我去泄露这些信息。

我将这条线报给了英国最大的报纸太阳报，他们用这个消息拍到了Jackson离开他的私人飞机的独家照片。因为我给他们传递了那种程度上的独家消息，太阳报决定继续和我合作，我自此后经常和他们共事。

我最近的有关Michael Jackson的贡献是太阳报独家揭露电影的制片人在‘This Is It’里混入了他的以前的声音。这个例子很好的说明了我的角色。当我看影片时，我立刻注意到在Earth Song后半部分的声乐部分来自于Michael 1991年的一个录音样带。只有一个歌迷或专家会注意到这点。同样的，我注意到Billie Jean的歌词变化并意识到这个声音也是来自于另一个一个录音样带上的。

我将我的笔记给了太阳报，他们雇用了一个音频专家来确认这些声音的确是以前的，并最终迫使一位Sony的代表承认了这个。

这听上去也许象一个负面的报道，但是我不喜欢这其中的欺骗--为一部“纪录片”售票，但是并没有真的这样做。一部纪录片应该是真实和诚实的，它不应该混入不真实的影像。我还觉得那些混音可能是用来掩饰一些东西--一些可能会击破制片人所宣称的他们不知道Michael Jackson身体不适或使用药品的话。我不认为我应该对此沉默。

你曾经在Michael Jackson几尺之遥，你感觉到那种感觉吗？他身上到底散发出来了什么东西来引发那样的大规模的晕厥，数百万的纹身，疯狂的爱恋，狂野的不合常理的性欲望，啜泣，忠诚，歇斯底里甚至癫狂?

我第一次近距离见到他是在2006年World Music Awards上，看到他的出现所引起的大规模歇斯底里是颇令人兴奋的。那感觉象一个节日。当他终于出现在台上时，整个会场象爆炸了一样。他看上去当然很引人注目--与他的照片上不同。他不可置信的纤瘦，特别是考虑到他快50岁了。他的步子很威风，仿佛他在飘动。他的着装无可挑剔，他的脸看上去我要说挺正常的--比他的大多数照片上看起来要好多了。但是对所有的那些狂热，当他离开舞台后，我感到有一点空虚。说实话，我认为1993年耗尽了他大部分的欢乐，而审判将剩下的也几乎都抹杀了。他看上去仅仅是在走过场罢了。

在2009年3月的那个宣告有些东西就是感觉不对劲。我听说Jackson原本应在一周前飞过来发布这个音乐会的，但是他推迟了（你可以在Randy Taraborrelli计划于今天夏天推出的新版本的传记上读到这些）。而且，他在发布会的当天也迟到了很久（这你也可以在Taraborrelli的书中读到)，而在发布会现场的公关人员看上去也有一点紧张。

会后我和一群朋友O2的建筑里进晚餐，我们都同意有一点不对头。他听上去好像不愿意在那里 – ‘This is the final curtain call, OK?’ – 与其说感到兴奋，我只是感觉到这整个事情从头开始就是难逃一劫的。尽管我买了门票，希望演出能进行，内心深处我期望着演出会因这个或那个原因被取消。

我真的不认为我能够评论为什么Michael Jackson会在他的歌迷身上引发那样的狂热，因为无论那是什么，1993年后其实那其实已经不存在了。这就像他的灵魂从他的身体中消失了，就像你看着 Michael Jackson的躯壳，但是他的精髓,在很久以前就已经消散了。

尽管我爱了Michael有将近四分之一个世纪，我实际上从来没有想过当他去世时我的感觉会是什么。我对这个我实际上从来没有见过的男人感到绝望的毁灭性的悲痛。你认为Michael所呈献出来的那种爱的能量，那种他本人爱我们每一个人的那种情感，是真的吗？艺术能够使它变得真实吗？或者他的爱－－和我们的爱－－只是幻觉？

Michael对人们的感觉看上去是真诚的－－除非你真的相信那样做的理由，你不会就这么拿出几百万美元的。如果你不想，你也不会对陌生者打开自己的家门的。

然而，1993年以后他看上去不再与以前相同了。就像我先前说的，就好像所有的欢乐从他身上被赶了出去。他象以前一样重复着表达情感的话语，但是它们现在感觉更像固定的短语而不是来自于心灵的信息。他看上去几乎在以重复新闻快讯的方式说着: ‘I love you more’，‘The best is yet to come’， ‘Burn the tabloids’. 就像他是在无人驾驶状态。

说实话，我认为他感到厌倦，受够了当Michael Jackson。我认为他只是想要一个安静的生活，但是被强迫着一直做Michael Jackson。

什么使Michael  Jackson与众不同？

作为一个艺术家，Michael Jackson是全能的。他能够唱，舞蹈，写词和作曲。Little Richard曾经将Michael Jackson称为他所知道的”最全能的艺术家“。Michael Jackson在他的巅峰时期将录音艺术家和现场表演者的质量标准提高到了一个新的层次。

不过还有其他一些艺术家也能唱，舞蹈，写词和作曲。 James Brown 和Prince both是可以马上想到的，不过那还有更多。但是，没有一个人能象Michael Jackson激发那样的狂热和崇拜。我认为他的歌迷们真正感受的是他的人格。Michael Jackson和他的歌迷间的关系可不仅仅限于偶尔摆姿势照相或签名的。

比如， 2001MJ在纽约开了两场音乐会--一场在9月7号，一场在9月10号。恐怖袭击发生在11号，很多飞到纽约看Michael Jackson的歌迷被困住且经济困难。Jackson找到了其中的一些歌迷，替他们付钱，在他们被困纽约期间付旅馆费并随后资助他们回家。没有多少艺术家会这样做的。

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你提到你有多么悲痛。就世界上哀悼Michael的各种现象来说，你的体验是什么样的呢？

悲痛（grief）是一个很重的词－－我不认我说过我在Michael Jackson去世后感到悲痛。震惊，当然。还有悲伤（sadness）。不过，我总是以一种理性的态度看待Michael Jackson – 我带来没有感到与他有什么个人方面的联系。我倾慕作为艺术家的他，但是也不怕指出他的缺点。我从来没有为他的大量的对口型，让孩子们进入他的卧室或那个把孩子悬在阳台外的行为辩护过。

很多人将Michael Jackson视为他们生活中不可分割的一部分－－象朋友或家人－－但是我总是将他视为我所敬仰的以为艺人。我为这种损失感到伤心，我认为他的故事是赞歌也是悲剧性的。我为他不能看到他的孩子们长大感到遗憾，而他那么拼命的从审判中幸存下来却只多活了没有什么建树的四年，这真是很可惜。但是我没有沉浸在哀痛之中或计划飞到洛杉矶。我在观看电视里的追思会时流下眼泪了吗？当然，就像另外10亿人一样。

我相信对Michael Jackson的迫害和后来私刑样对待很能反应了我们那种角斗士时期的黑暗，宗教裁判所和火刑时代的幽灵以及我们过去对公开的绞刑和用石头砸死等刑法所感到的快感。那么，为什么是Michael Jackson, 这个我们最爱的人?

我曾在2008年为一本现在已经停刊了名为Deadling的杂志采访过Aphrodite Jones，你可以在我的网页上读这篇文章。她在采访中对这种公众对名人们处私刑所感到的快感这么评论道:"在人们日常生活中存在这么如食尸鬼般残忍的意向，以目睹名人们倒霉为快；这种看着比自己更成功的人被他们的成就所惩罚所感到的病态的快感。“

我认为Jackson成为媒体的靶子主要是因为他是这个星球上最著名的人。知名人士++ 爆炸新闻 = 高额收益。我也能理解在Jackson不停地指责媒体也使他们感到恼怒。在他的巅峰时期，Jackson不停的放出一些有关他自己的故事，然后又公开的对此抱怨，鼓动他的歌迷们抵制报纸！不难理解为什么媒体这么生气了。

很多人认为他被攻击是因为他的种族，我认为将这种可能性排除在外也使一种短视。我经常将Jackson和世界上第一个黑人重量级拳击冠军Jack Johnson相比较。媒体对Johnson的对待是毫无疑问的种族主义，而媒体对Jackson的做法也毫无疑问是相似的；扣帽子, 猖獗的歪曲事实，编造的故事，贬损的漫画，对于刑事审判偏见的报道--如此等等。

就如同Johnson在50多年前种族隔离仍盛行时成为一个黑人世界冠军一样，Jackson在MTV仍不愿在电视频道上播放美国黑人音乐的时代其唱片销量超过了Elivs并拥有了Beatles的歌。

你可以找出一条时间线来：在Thriller以前，Jackson已经做了手术，他的化妆已经开始变淡，他的声音已经很高，他已经有年幼的朋友。只要Jackson的成功限于在他自己的种族范围内，媒体不在乎那些。但是从Thriller打破白人记录的那一刻起--他比Elivs卖更多的唱片并开始购买白人音乐家的出版物那一刻--媒体突然对他的手术，变淡的皮肤，他的高音和他的年幼的朋友开始感兴趣了。当Jackson开始威胁到白人维持的现状时，他开始成了靶子。

可争辩的说，, 就像Johnson一样，他被看成一个不知道自己位置的黑人。

不能否认的是在媒体的某些领域存在着对Michael Jackson进行尽可能频繁的公然的合谋的诋毁举动。事实常常被有意的曲解，而错误的消息被有意的当做事实来报道。这是毋庸置疑的。

我对于Evan chandler自杀的下意识的反应一点都不仁慈，尽管如果我根据每个人在生活中所犯的错误来评判一个人的话，我对自己的会是最严厉的。但是我不能否认我的第一反应是，”什么？不能带着那种罪恶感活下去呢？“当然，Chandler的健康状况和破碎的家庭无疑也是诱因之一。我的问题是为什么没有人知道这个故事。就其耸人听闻的程度这无疑应该出现在每一家报纸上头条，而不是仅仅在第17页一两行。你谈到媒体的偏见。为什么没有人听说过Evan Chandler曾在几年后尝试用一个健身馆的杠铃击杀 Jordan？ 这些故事不也能很轰动吗？?

我认为Evan Chandler的死没有被广泛报道是因为没有人了解他。大多数主要媒体谈及了这个故事，但是所有的报道内容都是相同的，因为人们对此知道的很少。

唯一一篇我见到的有深度的报道是每日邮报的完全不合事实的文章，对此我向媒体投诉委员投诉它违反了业务守则的中的7个部分，包括它公开称Jackson为‘一个声名狼藉的娈童者’。毫不惊讶的，他们驳回了我的投诉。他们看上去对报纸毫无依据的指控一个无辜的黑人为娈童犯行为不感兴趣。

可是，如果每日邮报将Paul McCartney称为一个 ‘‘一个声名狼藉的娈童者’, 我想媒体投诉委员恐怕会就此说些什么吧。

那个Evan试图谋杀他儿子的故事不合媒体的意图。这将Evan描绘成了一个暴力的有阴影的角色，并暗示他们俩之间的关系远不是亲密的或正常的，为那个Jordy因为被他父亲逼迫他在1993年撒谎而痛恨他父亲的说法提供了可信度。那个Evan试图用杠铃击杀Jordy的故事击破了Evan作为一个为儿子寻求正义的慈爱父亲的谎言。

那个故事的时机对媒体来说尤为糟糕，因为那发生在2005年Jackson审讯结束后不久，那期间大多数媒体惯常的歪曲证据和证词来讲Jackson描绘成一个罪犯。他们的第一个指控者再一次败坏自己的可信度不太符合他们试图描绘的图像。

以轻松一点的话题结束，你最喜欢的Michael Jackson的歌，音乐录像，时刻等是什么？

我最喜欢的单人专辑是Off The Wall和Thriller，不过我还将Jacksons的专辑Destiny和Triumph与它们列在一起。Michael事实上在Destiny和Triumph中比 Off The Wall和Thriller注入了更多的创造力，我认为它们同样出色 – 这些专辑是Jackson真正作为一位词作家和作曲家的丰产时刻。他后期的作品对我来说显得过于雕琢了。

就现场表演。我喜欢从Destiny巡演到Bad巡演的每一时刻。

Bad巡演是Jackson作为独立表演者的巅峰时刻。他在那次巡演所作的是将人们所期望的一个流行音乐会的壮观场面和Jame Brown式音乐会的音乐传奇成功的融合了起来。就像那样，你既得到了现场的音乐和演唱，同时你还看到了棒极了的服装，舞蹈等等。此后巡演的重点从音乐移开，而偏向于壮观场面，所以你看到坦克在舞台上开动，或者天使从横梁上飘下来--但是你失去了现场的演唱。我宁可看现场的体验而不想要坦克。如果我知道音乐会会是对口型的话，我不会去买票的。

我最喜欢的音乐录像时Thriller, Smooth Criminal 和 Remember the time。

用心感受

谢谢楼主分享！
也谢谢亲辛苦翻译！
先收藏咯！

CindyJiang

感谢分享
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MJ与MOZART

期待亲的翻译。

april_0522

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LLLY369

也来占位等翻译

stroller

加油！
奇怪，为什么这些网页我都能打开？

acloo

早上好,真勤劳

janee

好痛苦啊，坐等翻译。

最后一次共舞

纯英文？为什么当时不好好的学英语？我要后悔的撞墙了！

星星糖果鱼

看到这些英文就头疼。。

Jasmine-love-MJ

期待翻译~~
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