6 Replies to “Episode 024 – They’ve Got Chalk to Sell”

1. Denise February 21, 2016 at 7:31 pm

   I finally had a full day for myself to listen to this most recent episode. It is so cool how I agree with just about ‘everything’ that you guys have been saying regarding all the topics. However, I’d like to defend Michael’s lip syncing after the Bad era. Michael was known for his dancing as well as his vocal ability and after all he was human. (Which is sometimes hard for us to believe!) As he aged, I would think that if he focused on the vocals, his dancing would suffer and vice versa. Since Michael was a perfectionist and wanted to put on the best performance he could for his fans, I understand why he had to lip sync much of the show.

   Did you guys see the new 28 minute footage of Paris and Prince? Paris even commented on her nipples on Instagram 😉 I thought it was so awesome that we could see how MJ taught Prince to be a director at such a young age. The other video I watched recently, was the fan footage from the 30th anniversary show.

   Lastly, will you be reading Leonard Rowe’s book? Since I agree with Keya Morgan about MJ being murdered, I’m interested in purchasing Rowe’s book.

   Fabulous job on your first episode of 2016! Looking forward to the next one!

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   1. Jacob Rathjen February 28, 2016 at 11:04 pm

      I’m on the same boat with you, Denise, I too defend his lip syncing after Bad era.

      I loved that footage and it was great that Paris shared that, just to confirm that she was ok with the leak. 😛

      JR

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   2. CEThomson March 12, 2016 at 1:44 pm

      There is no defence for lip-syncing in front of a paying audience.

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2. Melissa H February 22, 2016 at 5:03 am

   Good gravy if it wasn’t for Charles this wouldn’t be worth a listen.

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3. Val February 25, 2016 at 6:27 pm

   My goodness, too many Debbie downers on this episode.
   But I still love you guys though!

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4. alexinou February 3, 2020 at 5:58 pm

   First episode of the year and great discussions and topics, with two guests: journalist Charles Thomson, and author of the MJ101 books Andy Healy.
   Andy says he became a fan with – and at the time of – Off the Wall. That was over 40 years ago. Then you look at his photo. Is there some secret society that Andy, Keanu Reeves and Nicholas Cage have joined to stop ageing?

   The debate around white actors playing Michael and Hollywood whitewashing historical figures or ancient Egypt and how Michael tried to produce a movie casting black actors for ancient Egypt was interesting.
   The 1st time the Remember the Time video aired in Europe (glued to MTV Europe a whole evening!), my dad coincidentally walked into the living room, looked at the screen and scoffed at the idea that Egyptians would be portrayed by black people. “Black Pharaoes? What next?!”
   Yet, I Wouldn’t necessarily blame Hollywood for this misconception – although I would for helping perpetrate it.
   I see this mis-representation and misconception as aligned with how Jesus Christ and his mother Mary are often pictured with milky white skin, blue eyes and long dark-blonde hair: people and characters represented a certain way in art because they are related to biblical events.
   It will take a bold movie maker to portray them more acurately.

   And at long last, the re-issue and documentary on Off the Wall came out. Fun reactions to listen to, I’d been looking forward to them.

   I agree with Charles about the quality of the solo tours, with Bad being the smiliest and most spontaneous tour, and History being… rather the opposite.
   But I remember that, sometime between Bad and Dangerous (so, maybe in 1990 or 1991), the news broke that Michael had been taken to the hospital because he had collpased while he had been running on a beach or something, due to breathing problem. It was on TV on the “real” news, which makes me think it really happened. I wonder if he might have had a chronic problem that made it increasingly more difficult for him to sing and dance. Or maybe I’m only looking for excuses.
   But at least, make the effort that it won’t look so obvious that you are lip-syncing. I’ll never forget that moment being in the audience with Stranger in Moscow playing, with the giant screens showing the backing singers on “♪how does it feel♪” and hearing Michael’s voice from the CD instead of theirs. Or the abysmal difference between on In the Closet bewteen the spoken words and the lip-synched chorus.
   Also I agree with the poor DVD quality for Vision, it makes no sense that it be worse than the original Dangerous and History releases, unless they tried to reduce costs by fitting more content on each disk, hence reducing the quality, which makes it a bit of a ripoff.

   To finish on a positive note, I’m glad Andy could participate in the episode, I’ve loved hearing his background and experience.

   Great dynamic between the 4 of you, very enjoyable episode 🙂

   Alexandre (he/him/his)

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