The music video for the Michael Jackson posthumous duet with Justin Timberlake "Love Never Felt So Good," debuted on Wednesday morning, and it's a careful visual tribute of the late pop singer's lasting legacy on future generations. The classy disco-soul number is on Jackson's just-released second posthumous album "Xscape," features eight songs originally recorded between 1983 and 1999, and showcases why Jackson remains an indelible influence on contemporary artists today. The track was debuted during the iHeartRadio Music Awards live on May 1 with Usher shows off his cool dance moves while performing a tribute to Jackson's brand new dance number.
Jackson originally wrote this disco confection in 1983 in a session with Canadian singer-songwriter Paul Anka around the time they recorded "This Is It." Jackson's demo was leaked in 2006 and a higher quality version leaked four years later. The contemporized recording is a magic combination of the new and the original production that retains the track's analog, early 80s feel, while also sounding right at home with the disco-soul inflected music of today. USA Today wrote, "old school snap and tingle with warm leaping strings that recall the melodic and rhythmic punch of Jackson's work." TIME called song as "an opulent, warm disco-soul number, which evokes Off the Wall as much as dead-on 2014."
The single edit was also reworked as a duet with Timberlake and this remix was released as a digital download on May 2, a day after Jackson's solo version was debuted on the iHeartRadio Music Awards. It was Jackson who initially encouraged Timberlake to go solo during his 'N Sync days. "I think it's the first idea that I ever got about doing something on my own because it was the first time I ever really felt the confidence to do it," Timberlake explained in an episode of Oprah's Master Class.
The posthumous "Xscape" duet nostalgic video for "Love Never Felt So Good" carefully cuts archival footage with crowds of young hip-hop dancers breakdancing to the song and attempting the late pop singer's most memorable inspired routines while fans lip-sync along to the new jam, as the vintage footage of Jackson busting his signature moves in various old-schooled sets are shown in a wall behind. The 'Sexy Back' star Timberlake also appears in the visual, getting close-up shots whenever the director thought it was required.
Jackson originally wrote this disco confection in 1983 in a session with Canadian singer-songwriter Paul Anka around the time they recorded "This Is It." Jackson's demo was leaked in 2006 and a higher quality version leaked four years later. The contemporized recording is a magic combination of the new and the original production that retains the track's analog, early 80s feel, while also sounding right at home with the disco-soul inflected music of today. USA Today wrote, "old school snap and tingle with warm leaping strings that recall the melodic and rhythmic punch of Jackson's work." TIME called song as "an opulent, warm disco-soul number, which evokes Off the Wall as much as dead-on 2014."
The single edit was also reworked as a duet with Timberlake and this remix was released as a digital download on May 2, a day after Jackson's solo version was debuted on the iHeartRadio Music Awards. It was Jackson who initially encouraged Timberlake to go solo during his 'N Sync days. "I think it's the first idea that I ever got about doing something on my own because it was the first time I ever really felt the confidence to do it," Timberlake explained in an episode of Oprah's Master Class.
The posthumous "Xscape" duet nostalgic video for "Love Never Felt So Good" carefully cuts archival footage with crowds of young hip-hop dancers breakdancing to the song and attempting the late pop singer's most memorable inspired routines while fans lip-sync along to the new jam, as the vintage footage of Jackson busting his signature moves in various old-schooled sets are shown in a wall behind. The 'Sexy Back' star Timberlake also appears in the visual, getting close-up shots whenever the director thought it was required.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment