Music News ! Michael Jackson Hologram Sings, Moonwalks at Billboard Music Awards !! A hologram that looked like Michael Jackson performed the previously unreleased Slave to the Rhythm at the Billboard Music Awards Sunday night. The performance began with a synchronized SWAT Team dancing until a curtain dropped and Jackson was seen sitting in a Dangerous-like throne. Then holo-Jackson (or someone impersonating MJ — it was difficult to tell if the projection was indeed an image of the real thing) sang and stuttered the upbeat dance number, which appears on the late pop stars recently released Xscape, in the same urgent, frenzied, breathy tenors he gave Dangerous tracks like Jam and In the Closet. During the brief performance, the hologram twirled, crouched and moonwalked around the stage. The appearance of the hologram wasnt a sure thing. The awards shows producers had attempted to keep it a secret, but it was leaked when two companies, including one that acquired the company that made the Tupac Shakur hologram at Coachella 2012, filed a lawsuit against the show. A judge rejected their claim, saying there was not enough evidence to show that the Billboard Music Awards was violating their patents — or even used their patents. Jackson began work on Slave to the Rhythm when he was recording his 1991 album Dangerous. The version that the hologram performed was contemporized, to use Xscape executive producer L.A. Reids word, by four producers, including Timbaland, Babyface and Reid, for the record. Source: Rolling Stone Magazine
Posted on: Mon, 19 May 2014 04:34:15 +0000
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