Here's the link to an article in the London GUARDIAN about the recent goings-on regarding Michael Jackson, who's weighing an offer to play multiple nights at the O2 Arena (formerly the Millennium Dome) in London:
http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/story/0,,2265010,00.html
Separating the music from the human being and his foibles, I still think that Jackson's music holds up (and the fact that the 25th anniversary edition of THRILLER is selling well in the U.S.) by 2008 standards.
But I believe that, given the artistic disappointment of 2001's INVINCIBLE, it would be a mistake for Michael Jackson--who once set musical standards--to again hire current "hot" producers and songwriters and try and fail to imitate what younger artists are succeeding with on the Pop/R & B charts nowadays.
It's probably better that Michael turn himself into an oldies act, play the O2 and other large European venues (it's doubtful that he could play Las Vegas without controversy and the lingering fallout from the child abuse accusations and subsequent 2004 trial)--and, in terms of releasing "product", give fans a 30th-anniversary reissue of OFF THE WALL, either this year or the next.
This is a better way for Jackson to regain artistic dignity (and have at least an echo of his once-massive commercial success) than isssuing further aural mediocrities like the now-long-forgotten "You Rock My World."
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