Michael Jackson - HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995) - Opening Entrance - HQ

"HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I"


Recorded: September 1994 - March 1995.


Released: June 16, 1995.


Record Labels: Epic Records & EK-59000.


Produced by: Michael Jackson, James Harris, Janet Jackson, Terry Lewis, Dallas Austin, David Foster, Bill Bottrell, R. Kelly, and Teddy Riley.


Niceties by: http://www.youtube.com/IAmOnlyLove



Synopsis!
"HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I" (usually shortened to HIStory) is a double album by Michael Jackson, released on June 16, 1995. The first disc is his first hits collection, whereas the second is his studio album. HIStory is the best-selling multiple disc album ever, with worldwide sales of over 20 million copies (40 million in terms of units). The album won one Grammy for Best Music Video — Short Form for "Scream". The greatest hits disc was reissued on November 13, 2001 under the name Greatest Hits: HIStory, Volume I and sold additional 3.9 million copies worldwide.

About Music Videos & Controversy!
HIStory remains Jackson's most controversial album as seen by a number of events. The music video for "You Are Not Alone" was controversial in that it featured an almost nude Jackson and his then-wife Lisa Marie Presley. Additionally, two Belgian songwriters, brothers Eddy and Danny Van Passel, claimed to have written the melody in 1993. In September 2007 a Belgian judge ruled the song was plagiarized from the Van Passel brothers and the song was subsequently banned from airwaves in Belgium.

Controversy arose when a verse in "They Don't Care About Us" ("Jew me/sue me/everybody do me/kick me, kike me/don't you black or white me") raised suspicion that the singer was anti-Semitic, charges Jackson denied. To make up for it, he edited the verse on later issues of the album, adding sound effects to cover up the 'Jew', 'kike' and even 'strike' lyrics; at the same time additional percussion sounds were added making the original album version quite different to the one we hear today.

The original music video for "They Don't Care About Us" showed Jackson singing the song in a prison. MTV took the video off its playlist because it showed scenes of violence and included copyrighted scenes from unknown news reports. Jackson and video director Spike Lee released another version of the video set in Dona Marta, a shanty town in Brazil, which was actually shot before the "prison version". The original plan was to have one video edited from both shoots however the material generated in Brazil was so worthy, Jackson believed there should be two versions, one for pop channels (Brazil) and one for hip-hop/post watershed channels (prison). One Brazilian politician accused Jackson of exploiting poverty to make money. The politician also alleged that Jackson needed and was given permission by drug traffickers to shoot the video.

The tracks "Scream", "This Time Around", "D.S." and "Tabloid Junkie" are four of 9 recorded tracks where Michael Jackson uses profanity. The others being the tracks "Morphine", and "Scream" remix, "Scream Louder" from the Blood On The Dance Floor album, "She Drives Me Wild" and Dangerous from Dangerous, and She's out of My Life from Off the Wall. However, only tracks "Scream" and "Tabloid Junkie" were the ones that attacked the media. Also, profanity was used in another Michael Jackson song by will.i.am in the song P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing) 2008.


"Singles from HIStory Album"

1) "Scream"
2) "Childhood"
3) "You Are Not Alone"
4) "Earth Song"
5) "This Time Around (radio only)"
6) "D.S. (Promo only)"
7) "They Don't Care About Us"
8) "Stranger in Moscow"
9) "Smile (Promo only)"

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[zxeritross]

1:23 has to be the most RADICAL shit I have ever seen anybody wear. And the thing is, these were the type of clothes that he actually wore! "Larger than life" is almost an understatement. MJ was a god-like human being!

[thecatatemyhomework]

He was beautiful.

[supermjjfan1]

@cottlesbutt

That is why we must,MUST continue his work,MJ4EVER!!!!!!

[supermjjfan1]

EPIC!!!

[11Moonwalk11]

Pretty fucking awesome

[darkxba]

"perseverance,confidence,true meaning of success which is love" this was M.J's wishes to his son on his 2nd b.d, such a beautiful soul! they killed him because he is a love chanter who wanted to heal the world ,he has an army of MJ lovers all over the globe touched by him and wanted to make a difference, stop war and change the world with a snap of his fingers! they know his power and they know they can't compete with the moon walker ! I hope we will make a difference that will make M.J proud!

[KayStarrMusic]

Yep, He's Bad.

[Gunbarrelguru]

that actually happened

[JazzRockablity]

yo I would soo wear that lol

[libertarienne]

JUST AWESOME thank you!

Alex❤sMJ

[MichaelJackson0o]

Fudging amazing. But ofc, people had something to say about this too.

[lacrymosa777]

This is the most epic thing i've ever seen 0_o