Comments on: Remembering Michael Jackson (Part 2): Beatboxing and Songwriting

By: 2009 Music Rundown | syntaxfree

2009 Music Rundown | syntaxfree — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:22:49 +0000

[...] on June 25th, 2009. I already wrote a fair bit in this blog about the joy Michael Jackson brought to my life, but reading over it again I’m struck by how much I still had to leave [...]

By: Maïlys F

Maïlys F — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:55:25 +0000

Hello everyone! I would really like to watch the 3extra videos where MJ explains how he wrote the Girl Is mine, but apparently they’re not available anymore? Do you know if there’s a way I can have access to them?
Many thanks to all
Maïlys

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:39:24 +0000

Don: You are beginning to scare me! Next you’ll be telling me that you too said in Mandarin on national television that you wanted to have his children!

Uh.

Where was I? Oh yes, I was facepalming.

By: Don

Don — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:08:18 +0000

Mich, at this point the shared history you never knew we had starts to unravel itself because I WAS ALSO ZZZOMG AT MJ BEATBOXING WHO IZZIT DURING THE OPRAH INTERVIEW!!!

I remember I was so impressed when he did it that I immediately tried to do it myself, and eventually came up with a line that I always transliterated as “BOM-cheke-AEEH-zhepuk-zhepuk-AEEH” and I kept doing it at home, in school, for days. It was so enjoyable and hypnotic, feeling the sounds in my mouth, that after a certain point I thought I was going nuts. I also thought I had nailed the rhythm but years later I realised I was completely off.

I remembered the beatboxing bit and searched for it while randomly youtubing MJ vids in the last week and came across it and it brought a silly grin to my face! The Oprah interview was back in the day when a telecast like that was a family event, and everyone made time to sit down in front of the TV to watch it! Damn, I don’t even watch TV anymore, leave alone do anything with my parents now!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:36:18 +0000

Well I for one am very glad Tessa learnt something she didn’t previously know about Michael. Or else why the hell am I writing all these posts just to tell MJ maniacs like Kelly stuff they already know??! :P

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:02:34 +0000

tsk tsk…there are so many things non-MJ fans don’t know….

By: Tessa

Tessa — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:34:29 +0000

Wow, that is awesome, I never knew what an amazing beatboxer he was. And the fact that he assembled his songs through beatboxing is so cool! Thanks for the clips.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:19:42 +0000

OMG! 5:48 in the first part of the deposition..the moog bass…TOO CUTE!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:11:08 +0000

Man, youtube rocks!!! I remember the days where we had to order these rare, unauthorized tapes from some other country, pay ridiculous shipping rates, and deal with the SG censorship (yes, folks, Singapore randomly confiscate tapes and make you pay them to go through your tapes to censor them before you can collect them)….behold the power of Youtube!!!

I remember all these clips so well…..