Sunday, January 02, 2011
"Hold my hand"... some thoughts
Just listened to "hold my hands" by MJ and Akon... besides feeling a tad weird that I'm listening to a dead man's "new" song... I also realised that i felt weird partly because the song sounds abit... "un-MJ-ish" to me.
Then i started asking myself, what's considered as "MJ-ish"? Well, I'm no MJ fan but he's such a ledgend and churned out so many hits that one couldnt miss his song if a piece is being played on radio. To be fair I think MJ has his own signature on almost every hit piece of his.
So i was rather surprise to find myself saying that "Hold My Hand" is abit ... More of Akon and Less of MJ... when i probed further into my own reactions... I found out that part of why I felt like this on my first listen is that the song is a little to "Hip-Hop/R&B" (ok, i know i should be more careful on this cos i aint no HH or R&B pro)... it sounded too... Contemporary African-American to me.
It was after awhile that I realised that MJ is African American himself.
Weird much? It seems that after-all, his attempts to "whiten" himself is successful on some levels. Of course, much of it has gotta do with the whole marketing and packaging of himself and his works... but it shocks me quite abit to realise what my own reactions to the songs (might/can) mean...
Just some of my food for thoughts..
Clara