| So much more is the pity! I am persuaded that at the height of his powers (which is to say, before he really knew what his powers were: around the time of Off the Wall or while cutting the demos for Thriller) Michael Jackson could have sat down with an electric piano and a four-track and written the Single Pop Song that would have stopped time. But it’s not going to happen. Woe to you, then, O Earth and Sea, since your hopes rest entirely in Michael Jackson! But less woe than you’d think, as it turns out, and thank God for that. Because today Michael Jackson held a press conference. |