Posted on 10/20/2004 11:37:39 AM PDT by raccoonradio
That strange cackling noise you might have detected wafting from the south late last week came from MTV executives in New York laughing their heads off after Michael Jackson demanded that the cable channel pull Eminem's latest video.
In the clip for "Just Lose It," Eminem mocks several celebrities, including MC Hammer and Pee Wee Herman, but he saves his sharpest jabs for Jackson. Dressed as the entertainer, Eminem's hair catches fire, as Jackson's did during an accident while filming a Pepsi commercial. Later, his nose flies off, and is booted and squashed on a dance floor -- a not-so-subtle reference to Jackson's surgically tortured face.
But what has Jackson most upset are scenes featuring Eminem, in Jackson garb, sitting on the edge of a bed as young boys bounce on the mattress behind him. At one point in the song, Eminem raps, "Come on, little kiddie, on my lap." Facing child-molestation charges, Jackson clearly isn't in a mood to just laugh it off.
"I am very angry at Eminem's depiction of me in his video," Jackson told comedian Steve Harvey on Harvey's Los Angeles radio show. "I feel that it is outrageous and disrespectful. It is one thing to spoof, but it is another to be demeaning and insensitive."
So last week, Jackson demanded that all music cable networks remove "Just Lose It" from their rotations. Only Black Entertainment Television (BET) has agreed to do so, citing their long relationship with Jackson and an unwillingness to "disparage Michael's character, or that of any other celebrity." But neither MTV nor VH1 has any intention of pulling the video. In fact, between 7 and 9 a.m. Monday, the channels aired Eminem's video at least three times.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
VC/bd, check this out. (Click on Eminem "Just Lose It" - after test video runs for few sec, click that you can see it)
Because inside of him, he's blacker than they are.
Jackson has not quite caught on to the fact he is a has been and no longer has any juice.
Try link at post 6. Select "Just Lose It." Window will open and run video test. If you can see sample video, click that you can see it. New window will appear with the eminem vid.
Nothing opened when I went there. :(
It should work--make sure that if you have one of those pop-up killer programs that you click on it and hold down the CNTL key. That should work...hopefully you have a broadband or DSL connection which should make it come up pretty quickly
I'm a Caucasian and he's whiter than I am!
Only in America can a poor black boy grow up to become a rich, white, woman.
I am not a huge fan of Eminem's except to say his rap style is very unique and I can appreciate it. I don't appreciate the vulgarity in his songs. I think this video is good....he skewers a guy that has been molesting kids for a long time and had been getting away with it.
Somehow it worked this time. Too funny!
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