Chapter Seventy-Six: Black and White

Even if you haven't heard Michael Jackson's songs or seen pictures of him, it's absolutely impossible not to have heard his name.

Although at the time of his death, WeChat had not yet been born, and those yellow-haired, red, male and green women who followed the trend could not turn their circle of friends into a memorial hall, just like mourning the lead singer of Lincoln Park, the grief over Michael Jackson's death sprung up from the mud to the sky, but as the king of pop music, no matter which media will not exclude him when selecting the world's most influential celebrities.

You know, the award record he set was not equaled by Taylor Swift until ten years after his death.

As for when it will break?

Roland estimated that he would have to wait another thirty years before he could see it.

As for whether his influence will be surpassed by future generations?

This question is like a Qingdao lady answering a reporter's question: 'Do you think you can surpass Uncle Ge?' 'Same.

This age will not prevent you from shining yourself, but you will not cover anyone's brilliance either. Because people used to be groundbreaking, at a time like ** movies, people were filmmakers who created an era. We are just some juniors who continue to move forward, and we dare not make mistakes about this. ’

Regardless of whether it is a lost childhood, or a burning fire, whether it is a ** incident, or a death threat, everything that Michael Jackson suffered and the reputation he lost were all taken back after his death - of course, the billions worth of Elvis, the Beatles, and his own song rights finally came to Sony, and as dreamed of when the merger was made, Sony/ATV, after all, became the world's largest music rights company.

Of course, even if Roland knows everything about Michael Jackson's life history, it doesn't mean that he will be as surprised when he hears the name as he was when he met Francis Coppola, because for him, music is just a means to relax, he listens to songs, he likes singers like Taylor Swift, but he loves movies more.

As for why you like mildew instead of MJ?

How many men do you see when they are playing games, and they like to build a male account?

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Raising a daughter is much more comfortable than feeding a four-legged gold-swallowing beast!

Mildew looks beautiful and has a good voice, isn't it a very logical thing to like to listen to her songs?

So, even if Francis and Scorsese clearly state each other's identities.

Roland was only shocked because of emotion, and scolded Huijie in his heart.

After the mood declined, he returned to normal and asked the two bigwigs about the reason for the incident.

However, in the face of his inquiry, the people at the table who were still chatting happily suddenly fell silent, and the crowd, including Joe Pesci and Chris Columbus, all turned their eyes to the center of the awards stage, and greeted the lucky ones on the stage with formulaic smiles, not wanting to participate in this topic at all.

Compared with them, the big guy who mentioned this matter also found that the timing was wrong, they didn't want to judge other people's privacy in this kind of public place, so Scorsese and Francis, who felt that they had picked the wrong topic, looked at each other, and directly reminded Roland with a very obscure word, they felt that a precocious child like Roland should be able to understand.

“vitiligo。”

"Let's put this matter aside for a while, and when we contact him, I'll talk to you after confirmation."

Vitiligo?

Vitiligo?

When Roland heard this word, his whole person instantly understood.

'Original ......'

'Are you still together......

Even if the Jewish gang didn't say it explicitly, Roland had already guessed which song Michael Jackson wanted to record a music video for a famous white child - except for the music video "Black or White", which was about race issues, set the highest music video ratings, and became the most watched music video of all time, what other MV had to find a famous white kid to record together?

That's right, as a black man, Michael Jackson also spoke out on racial issues.

However, unlike those black lives in the future, and unlike the racial celebrations when Mandela was released, Michael Jackson, although he is a black man, has always been deeply involved in racial issues and has been criticized by public opinion.

Back in the late seventies, early eighties, Michael Jackson developed vitiligo because of his family's genetic history.

At that time, he cosed with the idol Chaplin because of the black and white, light and dark skin color on the photo, and made headlines, in this era of closed news, the melon-eating masses mistakenly believed the media propaganda, thinking that he was deliberately drifting, wanting to abandon the group of colored people, and in this case, every skin graft operation of Michael Jackson, who suffered a Pepsi burn in '84, will be described by the media as he is struggling to become a white man.

In the face of increasingly bad public opinion, MJ is still determined to do charity.

In '85, he called on 45 singers to come to the studio in Los Angeles to record "One Family" co-written with Lionel Rich, and eventually raised $60 million in charitable donations for Africa; In '88, he became the largest donor to the United Negro College Fund, in '89, he was awarded the 'Black Radio's Highest Humanitarian Award', and in '90, all the $250,000 from performing at Sammy Davis Jr.'s tribute event was donated to the United Negro College Fund......

But even so, people who have been accustomed to being guided by the news still label him as a 'betrayal of the race', in this case, MJ finally used his music to rebel and create the song "Black and White", not only that, but in Roland's memory, he also invited Macaulay Culkin, the star of the original "Home Alone", to star in the MV, and inserted the picture of the other party blowing up his father with a guitar in the independent opening overture of the song.

Of course, this kind of brisk footage is just a prelude to attacking racial issues.

Not only that, but in the 11-minute full version of the MV, there are more than four minutes of violent footage, smashing cars painted with racial slogans and smashing glass windows with "Long live the Ku Klux Klan......

He used a solo dance without a soundtrack, with exaggerated movements, and then vented the anger in his heart to the world......

Yes, after a simple tandem, Roland has already understood why the other party is looking for him.

In Roland's previous life, Michael Jackson claimed that he liked the movie "Home Alone" very much, liked Macaulay Culkin very much, and invited the other party to his dream manor as a guest, laying a good foundation for cooperation in the subsequent MV shooting.

And what about this life?

With Roland's involvement, Michael Jackson naturally couldn't directly invite Roland to cooperate as he did in his previous life.

After all, the song "Black and White" involves very sensitive racial issues, and at this time, if he directly invited Roland over in order to balance the racial scenes in the MV, not to mention whether Roland would agree, just from the Jewish gang, he would not be able to explain-

We're all friends, and if you don't say hello, you're pulling our people into the whirlpool of controversy?

Although you Michael is the king of pop music, we are not so easy to bully!

In this way, it has become MJ's safest choice to go beyond Roland and discuss problems directly with friends.

He wanted to find a white boy to shoot a music video, trying to find a balance between different races.

And Roland is now the most famous, if he is not chosen, others will not be able to achieve the effect he wants.

As for whether Roland will hesitate because of race?

Oh......

Not to mention that he had already promised Francis and Scorsese, the most-watched music video of all time wouldn't make him pass up the chance to show his face......

What's more, as long as you live in this land, what race, human rights, fraternity, and freedom are the favorite topics of the white left, and they will never be avoided.

Not only that, at the Golden Globe Awards ceremony where Roland is at the moment, there is also a controversial movie "Dances with Wolves", you must know that in the face of the issue of Indians, the racial discrimination shouted by blacks is nothing at all, and the bloody massacre hidden under the flashy appearance of the Westward Expansion Movement is more troublesome than racial discrimination.

After all, before "Dances with Wolves" came along, Western-themed movies were all inspirational: either the hard-working and capable Americans came together to develop a thriving Westworld; Either the valiant Americans, who fought their wits over a powerful and evil foe; The Indians in the major films are portrayed as savage and ugly villains to set off the image of the tall American heroes, and in this environment, "Dances with Wolves" still won the Oscar for Best Picture, which can be seen how sensitive race-related issues are in America.

Although Roland doesn't want to touch these things, living in this land and hiding will never be able to hide.

And compared with blindly rambling, standing with the Jewish gang is obviously the wisest choice.

You know, even if Spielberg in his previous life made his Holocaust Foundation extremely large, what the Holocaust, Rwanda, Armenia, and Khmer Rouge pogroms...... All of these events have been involved, but he can still live quite nourishingly.

How to survive in the sensitive cracks and let all public opinion be used for his own purposes is what Roland is interested in.

Of course, the most important thing is that Roland feels that even if he participates in Michael Jackson's "Black and White" MV, he will not be the point of attack.

When the sky falls, there is a tall man on top, and the accusations and pressure of public opinion will only be aimed at Michael Jackson, who wants to prove that he is still a black man, and he Roland is just a balanced foil for the MV.

For him, taking over this job is more about rubbing the popularity of this pop music king.

After all, no matter how popular Home Alone is, it can't be compared with MJ's fan base.

And once he showed it in the MV, that ......

Forget it, he's better honestly rub the heat.

In case there is a brain-dead fan of his own in the future, follow the example of the trainee's brain-dead fan, jump out and say to everyone that MJ's singing and dancing are taught by himself.

Then the fun will be great.

It's better not to have such a thing as a black top ten powder, otherwise, just diss will be enough for him to drink a pot.

Thinking of this, the surprise when I heard Michael Jackson's name, the caution when I guessed the MV project, and the regret when I thought about the race issue (I said yes to Francis too quickly), all these mixed emotions disappeared.

Although he really wanted to continue to talk to those big guys, since the other party kept silent, it was impossible for Roland to force his brain.

After making a mental note of MJ's incident, Roland followed the gourd and set his eyes back on the podium.

Because he doesn't have the ability to remember, it is impossible for Roland to know whether there will be all kinds of upsets at this year's awards ceremony, because of this, when they stop discussing and sit down, every award is a new experience for Roland, after all, he has never participated in such high-level activities in his previous life.

And once they are engrossed in cooperating with the organizers to perform, the sense of substitution of watching the ceremony on the spot is suddenly different, what American jokes, jokes, live singing, toasting and celebrating, these things, Roland ......

I'm really not interested.

For a guy like him who can only watch "Screaming Laughter" to have fun, the meat jokes in "Bankruptcy Sisters" can win his resonance.

As for the rest?

That could only smile awkwardly......

After sitting down one night, Roland really dozed off there.

As expected, all the awards have nothing to do with them, and all the applause is dedicated to others.

In this case, Roland felt like a troop of trolls invited by the organizers — the kind that didn't want money.

Since he didn't even have a sense of participation, he naturally wouldn't have a good impression of this award.

What's more, Roland's surprise (MJ's MV project) was also given by his own people, so after the awards dinner, he only said hello to his own people, and then climbed into the car with sleepiness and went home to rest in a daze.

As for follow-up interviews?

Interview you!

Want to get a 'loser's parting message' from his mouth?

Stay where it's cool!

Don't you know that if children stay up late for a long time and do not rest on time, it is easy to have stagnation and development?

The Olsen sisters are typical of this!

The whole family can be tall, but the two of them who have stayed up late for a long time to film have become dwarfs.

Since there are lessons from the past, Roland naturally doesn't want to become a second-class disability of about 1.6 meters.

And when he got home, the lights next door were all gone.

Looking at the familiar porch, Roland yawned, slipped into the door, and rolled onto the bed.

Maybe he knew that Roland was too tired yesterday, but it was more like he wanted him to sleep a little longer.

When Roland slept until he woke up naturally, he slapped the bedside alarm clock and stared at the electronic time on it to observe carefully, and the unusually clear 01:30 PM made him jump up from the bed directly.

"Hold the grass!"

"It's over, it's over, it's over!"

"It's to see the rhythm of your own brain!"

"James said before, we met on the set of Sony on the 20th, and now it's afternoon, doesn't he have to pick my skin?!"