Adam’s essey about Michael Jackson has been included in the special tribute edition about the King of Pop. It looks however as not a new written essey, but rather like the fragments of already published articles where Adam mentioned Michael Jackson.
Some excerpts below:
“Rock With You” was my first audition song [for American Idol]. It’s cool, it’s dancey, it has a great vocal, it’s really dynamic in the range. I had actually never performed a Michael Jackson song before. Paula was really grooving out to it. When we had to do our Michael Jackson show this year, I was thinking, “What song should I choose?” They’re all so good. It was either “Black or White” or “Thriller,” but I wanted to make more of a statement the first time out, and “Black or White” comments on culture and racial harmony in a very eloquent way. It also means a lot of other things. To me, personally, it was it doesn’t matter if you’re straight or gay, either. It doesn’t matter if you’re a man or a woman. I loved the sentiment there. What was really cool about Michael is that he straddled a really fine line of race and sexuality. There was something very androgynous about him, and very race neutral. People criticized him for lightening his skin or whatever, but he was like his own race. A lot of people saw it as bad, but it was kind of fascinating. And very original.
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His imagination was leaps and bounds beyond most of the other artists around. A lot of kids of my generation really connected with him because he was so magical in that way. He was like a big kid in the way he wanted to play dress up and create.
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For the Idol finale, we were rehearsing at his space in Burbank and so were the Michael Jackson dancers. And I happen to know their choreographer, and he pulled me over into the rehearsal space and I watched a number. They were rehearsing “Jam,” and it looked incredible. The dancers were amazing. I was really excited for Michael: I thought, good, he’s got a chance to do a comeback. I was told he was really interested in meeting me and I’m really disappointed that we never made it happen.
See the whole article here.
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#1 by Nina - July 10th, 2009 at 08:42
Uh…can you direct me to the page number that it is on. I bought the magazine to see this specifically, but I do not see his piece in the tribute section.
#2 by alice - July 11th, 2009 at 12:23
I love Adam and Michael …I don’t care for what Adam said about people criticizing MJ for his “lightening his skin or whatever” but I might be taking it wrong – MJ had a skin disease and it really bothers me that people still think he bleached his skin..until he died – I had never heard that before – I always knew about the skin thing..his sister has it too – again I could be taking what Adam said the wrong way – I know he liked Michael..I am really disappointed that MJ never got to meet Adam (or Adam never got to meet MJ)…I can’t believe he wanted to that is really exciting! I hope he heard Adam’s cover of Black or White. I really love Michael…I think he was a great person and of course he was a great singer/performer and I hope he is happy and dancing in heaven.