It's been a minute my lovely creative outlet, but I've been stuck writing on other people's blogs and you know living. I recently went to the Michael Jackson birthday celebration thrown by Q-tip and Mark Ronson and I must say shit was awesome. I heard music that I would have never known was created by Michael Jackson and his brothers as well as hearing Quincy Jones call in to bless the celebration and say how much he loved Michael and that he was "his little brother". Marcia from Floetry was on hand as well and she sang "Butterflies", one of my favorite new school M.J. songs. Marcia had written the song for Michael and it was featured in his last studio release "Invincible". It was by all accounts an event filled with love. Everyone was relaxed, hell I went by myself and got a free drink and danced the night away with a group of people I didn't even know. It was really cool to see everyone just come together to celebrate a person that they only knew through his accomplishments. It was and always will be respect.
I can't get over the extensive catalog of music he created along with his brothers and even the music he wrote for his sisters. It was really cool. There are many people that say that they weren't fans or weren't touched by his music but in reality that night broke that myth. Their have been countless songs sampled based on Michael Jackson or The Jacksons music, some songs we didn't know about because they weren't so commercialized. Hip Hop takes many forms and many hit songs created for Hip Hop artists were taken from music from The Jacksons, proving that we were all some how some way greatly affected by their musical talent. I recorded some video from my blackberry, it isn't great video, but it defines what I have been writing through music so that you can hear how many songs were taken from their original tracks and recreated as hits for other artists. It was an amazing event and I'm glad I took a part in sharing it with all the people that were there.
On another note, I didn't get to record video of this, but Mark Ronson had created a special tribute to DJ AM. As we all know the news of DJ AM's passing had broke the day before and Ronson created a special tribute to him using the song "Lisa its your birthday" from the Simpsons episode when Homer is put in a mental institution with a guy that claims he is Michael Jackson. Ronson said that AM loved the Simpsons (as do I) and he wanted to make a tribute for him. Which was incredibly befitting for both a tribute to MJ and AM because MJ was really on that episode of The Simpsons titled "Stark Raving Dad". MJ was never accredited for the episode because his record company at the time would not allow him to sing for anyone else. SO "Happy Birthday Lisa" was sung by Kipp Lennon. But the voice of the character who claimed he was Michael was in fact Michael Jackson. Anyways this is the song that was specially remixed as a tribute to AM that night
One of my favorite Simpson songs. RIP DJ AM.
Another silly fact, Michael Jackson wrote the most popular song of the Simpsons aside from the theme song, "DO the Bartman". Crazy how that never got out huh? The Simpsons creator Matt Groening admitted that recently. There is so much this dude gave us and so much we didn't know.
I will post the video of the mixes I recorded from that night on a later day, being that they need to be approved by Youtube.com.
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