Hey Y'all!
I am constantly trying to come up with different series that will help to keep my blog interesting and you my readers entertaining.
And I got thinking, I have been an MJ fan for 17 years. The last nearly 2 decades of my life, I have been following Michael and seeing his appearances and stuff and why NOT share them? So I am.
JUNE 24, 2003
The 2003 BET Awards stands out to me as a watershed moment in musical history because had not only Michael Jackson on a stage but he was with his own childhood idol, James Brown:
Michael presented James with the Lifetime Achievement Award--I think. I'm not really sure, I usually only pay attention when Michael is the one recieving an award...
But my memory of it is, in 2003, I was a senior in high school(well switiching to it over summer break) and for weeks, online in the MJ community--as I stayed so up on Michael's activities, that if he sneezed, I could have sent him a Kleenex.
The comminuty had been buzzing with rumors of Michael making an appearance at the BET Awards that year. As I do NOT watch BET at all--I know alert the media a Black person who does not watch BET--I was only going by what the clubs said. And I was fairly excited.
Anytime Michael went anywhere inportant like an awards show, I always wondered what he was going to wear and how the papers would treat him.
Lately, in public Michael had been wearing nothing but black and I expected himt o really wear some variant of his "Billie Jean" ensemble.
I was exteremly agitated while watching the BET awards. I'm not a huge fan of rap music--and rap music live just sounds like loud screaming to even louder thumps.
If it wasn't for Michael, I'd have changed the channel.
Eventually, James Brown came on, and my entire how was watching it, me, Mom, Dad--because we appreciate REAL music in my house.
And my heart was popping out my chest because I knew if JB was onstage, Michael Jackson was somewhere close by.
That's when the music broke and out walked...Michael.
Even James looks surpised.
It was bedlam. Everyone went crazy. The folks in the audience. I was leaping up and down on my bed. shouting at Michael. It was great.
And even greater was how amazing Michael looked.
I mean come on, Michael was wearing the hell out of those bespangled jeans. Only he could work something like that. (And I heard that belt cost over a million dollars. Only MJ would put that kind of dough on his HIPS!)
It was even cooler when Michael bewgan dancing with James...it was just a completely abstract, unrehearsed, candid moment in television.
Michael rocking James' Cape.
Shaking that Pancake Ass God Father of Soul Style!
And after allt he dancing and going on, Michael got tearful making a speech praising James as a genius, a claim I don't dispute. JB was a true genius, and contributed to much to the music world. Everyone cites MJ, but before MJ, there WAS James Brown.
For your viewing pleasure--the video!
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