For those of you who don't know, I love Michael Jackson. He's my husband, my idol and will forever be The King of Pop. So when my mom said they were going to do a live tribute in New Jersey we jumped at the chance. Of course we waited a week to check the show reviews and the venue but after everything checked out we bought two tickets off Groupon to see MJ Live in Engelwood, New Jersey. Unfortunately, what was supposed to be an epic night turned out to be thoroughly disappointing.
For one, I thought they were just going to play MJ's music, maybe project a few images and videos onto a big screen. Although I guess you would need a license for that, but I would have preferred that rather than have someone trying to impersonate him; because even though the man could dance, the singing wasn't all that great. First. Where was the diversity? I think this was one of the biggest problems of the show. As a man literally of many colors I at least expected, if not the crowd, but the performers to have more than one African American on the stage. But that's exactly all I saw. One African American with dreads and another brown girl. The actual 'Michael Jackson' is from Brazil and the band had the black keyboard player in the back. Everyone else was white and I'm upset and appalled. Believe it or not people, Michael Jackson was black even when he was white; and I'm not saying everyone can't sing and dance to his music but we need to be included, especially in something like this. It was disappointing and dare I say, I was a little offended. It's 2018 people, get it together. Next. I hated how the people in the crowd were actually screaming out as if it were the actual Michael Jackson on stage. Now it's one thing to enjoy the performance but cheer for the performer because last time I checked, the actual Michael Jackson is dead-may he rest in peace-because trust me, if it were actually him on stage I'd have either have run away screaming or tried to climb the stage. (I'd probably try to do both on my way out. lol). Not to mention, the music kind of sucked. Sometimes the songs were played too fast or cut right in the middle and maybe that's the way concerts go but as a live band I had hoped for a lot more. The dancers were a little off beat, a dancer knocked down the mic stand! I just felt like the entire set up was a little unprofessional especially when the songs would start when 'MJ' was still backstage going through a costume change and he was singing from behind the curtain. It was a major turn off. And maybe I'm being a little harsh but if you're looking for style and pizazz I definitely wouldn't recommend it. But then again, maybe I'm wrong and the show they do in Vegas is better. All I know is, MJ Live was a bust, at least for me. I'm just glad I got those coupons for discounted tickets on Groupon.
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