„I’ve got to get away, so I can free my mind Escape is what I need, away from electric eyes No matter where I am, I see my face around They pin lies on my name, then push them town to town Don’t have a place to run, but there’s no need to hide I’ve got to find a place, but I won’t hide away The man with the pen That writes the lies that hassle this man (Writin‘ all those lies) I can’t take this garbage here no more“
Michael Jackson, Song „Escape“ recorded 1999/2001.
In 1988 in his Film MOONWALKER Jackson escapes from his hunters.The army of anonymous reporters who chased him throughout his life was portrayed by Jackson in his shortfilms. Here: An interpretation of MOONWALKER 1988.
From top left to bottom: 1986 Michael Jackson’s Pepsi commercial The Chase, 1988 MOONWALKER.
Michael Jackson’s exceptional talent and his life in the limelight has always been a headline for the tabloids even today. These reporters, who finance their own living by getting celebrities in front of their cameras, were portrayed by Jackson in many of his films. Sometimes Jackson depicted the tabloid reporters symbolically, in form of anonymous dark figures on the street like an army, using their cameras like weapons. Sometimes Jackson presented the reporters as they deserved: as caricatures. v.l.n.r.: BILLIE JEAN 1983 and MOONWALKER 1988.
Early in his mega-career, Jackson depicted tabloid reporters who ruthlessly created scandals to sell headlines like the „Billie Jean Scandal.“
Michael Jackson repeatedly showed in his movies how he managed to escape from tabloid reporters or even from the fans: by hiding, by disguising himself. Or by pure magic. From top left to bottom: 1988 MOONWALKER, 1991 Remember The Time and MOONWALKER again.
Michael Jackson and the art of „escape“
Michael Jackson used the symbol of flying as a way of escape from reporters and the fans for many years. For decades Michael Jackson flew away in his films, performances and also in his music. Away from the persecuting public. He used the symbol of flying ayway as a symbol of escape from reporters and also from fans for many years. It seemed that flying-away was the quintessence of escape for Jackson. From top left to bottom: 1986 Michael Jackson’s Pepsi Commercial „The Chase“, 1988 SPEED DEMON in MOONWALKER, 1993 WHO IS IT, 1992/1993 DANGEROUS Worldtour Rocket Man ending. Jackson broke boundaries not only in his art. Breaking glass in seems to be like liberation. From top left to bottom: 1991 BLACK OR WHITE, 1995 SCREAM, 2009 SMOOTH CRIMINAL in THIS IS IT.From top left to bottom: Escape 1986 in Michael Jackon’s Pepsi commercial „The Chase“, 1988 in MOONWALKER in disguise, 1996 in THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT US and back to LEAVE ME ALONE 1988.Certainly the most famous escape of all: Michael Jackson’s BILLIE JEAN. His 1983 film, in which he tells the story about the invention of a tabloid scandal. From top left to bottom: 1983 with singer Paul McCartney in the duett SAY SAY SAY, 2001 with actor and friend Chris Tucker, 1996 in Michael Jackson’s Ghost’s.
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