These talent shows like America's Got Talent, Britain's Got Talent, Blind Auditions and the like, have a lot of imitators in other countries. I do not know the name of this talent, nor the name of show nor even the country but he sure has blown away the audience and the judges. So it appears.
Yes, it's a show and it's scripted, and yes it's acknowledged that Jackson wasn't that great of a singer, and yes, he was an obvious kiddie fiddler, but there is no denying he was also an international star, a superstar in fact, and he was loved by a lot of people worldwide if not by you. This video has over twenty million views and it's just a guy who is not Michael Jackson yet when he sang he brought people to tears.
I take it from YouTube comments that he did poorly on his second audition. His choice of trainer drawn from this show had him get off the Michael Jackson thing and sing something else.
Like him or not, can you try not to be a jaded cynical old fart and just appreciate it for what it is? An American talent was loved. Globally. And people, maybe not you, still hold his memory dear in their hearts.
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I watched it to see if I'm jaded and cynical and I guess I am but he did a good job. It's probably a generational thing that I'd prefer to see something like a James Brown twin.
Like him or not, can you try not to be a jaded cynical old fart and just appreciate it for what it is?
Appreciate what, for what it is?
The skill of someone in mimicking or replicating the voice of a performer whose music I don't appreciate or enjoy?
What was that person's intent in doing so? To honor someone whose public persona engendered love and admiration while his less than ideal private reality centered around his need to perpetrate child abuse and cover that brokenness with lies, money, and delusion?
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