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...matchup between the Big Os was almost enough to block out all the dancing girls, jumping boys, fireworks, laser lights, eardrum-pounding music and halftime motocrosses that are part of the show in Orlando. The Dream vs. Shaq is the present vs. the future, bop vs. rap, ballet vs. the World Wrestling Federation, humility vs. bravado, Mecca vs. Madison Avenue. It is also a game, as O'Neal...
...large masses of people excited. HIStory's first CD contains digitally remastered versions of some of Jackson's greatest hits, including such classics as Rock with You and Beat It. The second CD has 15 new songs, featuring plenty of guest performers (basketball star Shaquille O'Neal has a rap cameo on the song 2Bad, and sister Janet duets with Michael on Scream) and guest producers (including R. Kelly, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis). The result is that HIStory is full of musical ideas but feels too bureaucratic and lacks a strong, sure vision...
...know your party's a bust when the biggest celebrity in attendance is the lawyer who helped you beat a child-molestation rap. Michael Jackson held parties on both coasts, in Los Angeles and New York City, to celebrate the June 20 release of HIStory, Past, Present & Future-Book I, his new, epic, hubristic double CD. Both affairs were surprisingly luminary free; even Jackson skipped them. However, Johnnie Cochran, the savvy superlawyer who helped get the child-sex-abuse charges against Jackson settled out of court and who is now defending O.J. Simpson, did show up at the L.A. function...
...shine. The hip-hopping Money features sly, smart vocals by Jackson and an aggressive, gnarled beat, aptly capturing the sensation of being strangled by consumerism. And although the media-bashing Tabloid Junkie might strike some as self-serving, the song is still cutting and catchy. Also, Shaq's mini-rap flows well. "Any time you get the chance to work with a legend," says O'Neal, who actually worked with an engineer, not with Jackson, "you don't pass...
...fund raiser. The presidential candidate criticized entertainment moguls for producing what he called "nightmares of depravity"-films, television and music filled with sex and brutality that "push the limits of decency." Dole took particular aim at Time Warner (TIME's parent company) for its dissemination of violence-laced gangsta-rap music...