Ok, let's be honest here. Why am I following this woman on twitter and buying her albums? It's because at one time I was obsessed with her father, who she looks so much like that they could almost be twins.
There's this breathless anticipation: is she going to make me as excited as he did? Has he left something significant on this earth that will go on creating the path he started?
I've been waiting for this. From the moment I first set eyes on her, I thought there was something special about her, something riveting, something her father had, but I don't know that her siblings do, except maybe Omar in Norway (or was it Sweden).
What is that? David Foster said that you can tell a star, because when they're on the stage you only see them, not anyone else who is on the stage with them. Yes, I feel that way about her. She draws my eyes. I want to stare.
An emotional darkness, a physical beauty, a sense of mystery. He was big into creating mystery -- and, tantalizingly, she puts up videos of herself playing the guitar, but not showing her face -- just the very sort of thing that MJ would have done -- hide his face.
The last album/EP merely whetted my appetite. She sang descant. She did that uncanny blending that her father did, when he recorded backing tracks for his albums out of his house. I wonder whether she may have heard any of that. Of course, the genre was totally different; Indie/folk/rock -- not pop, r&b, soul or dance music. Yet, I heard enough of him to stay hooked.
And now the second album, a different sound again more alternative/perhaps almost modern classical. That's good. She isn't limited to a single genre. MJ was known for creativity, for breaking molds. Yes!
Her music video "Let Down" is gory. The illustrations on the album are eerie, dark, dismal. Actually the drawings on the EP were a disjointed, giving an impression of madness. One can see a connection in the type of mind that would do "Wilted" with the type that would do "Thriller."
Sometimes I think that only insane people have enough innate drama to be able to reach international prominence. Her father had that -- some madness that led him to various peculiar behaviors.
Yes, she has that as well: madness. There's something fascinating about that.
I had had fond hopes that she might be the celeb who would take up my #QuixoticQuest for the world anthem. After all, the idea came from her father -- and his "Cry" music video. There doesn't seem to be anything like that here.
That's an issue I've been noticing. A lot of the Jackson family continues to perform. None of them seems to have the idealism that MJ sometimes displayed.
Yet, this album is very beautiful. I love this type of sound. I love modern classical, weird stuff. It's too bad that I only had the option mp3 download, rather than a cd, because CD's say who the collaborators are and what instruments are being played don each track. I wonder to what extent the sound on this album came from her and to what extent it might have come from collaborators.
Is she the source of her sound, as her father was, or are people coming in and doing arranging and editing for her? Is she a the football in the game, where industry professionals are looking out to see who is a social media influence? Once they decide that a performer has potential in terms of gathering large audiences, they'll create all kinds of things to showcase her.
Warning: this is hypnotic. Be prepared to be lulled to sleep. I'm not saying that as an insult. It's just very somniferous -- not boring, but rather mesmerizing.
She has a very complex, expressive voice. She definitely holds up as a solo artist. The unusual thing is that she also blends so well. That was a characteristic of her father as well.
