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OH MY GOD!
Thursday October 11, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
Michael Jackson, Kanye West and will.iam, together at last.
"I'm working on stuff for Michael Jackson." With these words, Kanye West has teased the world. Just what is the stuff he is working on? A giant space rocket in the shape of Jackson circa 1989, ready to blast off and take the King of Pop (and a tight circle of his dearest friends) off to a new life in space? A new form of Jesus Juice that reduces the calorific content while upping the wooziness quotient? A new cross-breed of giraffe and monkey (the girkey)?
No, the truth of the matter is stranger than even these fictions. Kanye is actually, really, honestly, working on producing some music for Jacko's first album since 2001's Invincible!
As much has been confirmed by Jacko on his personal webbo: "I've been really busy lately. Soon I will be sharing exciting and surprising news with you. Your continued love and support means so much to me. I really love and appreciate you all from the bottom of my heart." Etc, and so on.
There's no comeback better than a comeback from sexual scandal, public humiliation and borderline bankruptcy, so it's no surprise to find Kanye and that idiot from out of the stevie nicks pon coolie dance riddim, will.i.am, revealing their involvement in the new, highly anticipated (by teenagers in Malaysia) Jacko meisterwerk.
As part of his announcement, detailed in full on the pages of Top Goth popster Vicky "Eye of' Newton, will.i.am detailed at tedious length how he was first approached to do the job and how he couldn't believe it was Jacko, etc.
"Michael just called me out of the blue and I just didn't believe it was him."
Surely the voice pitched three octaves higher than normal gave the game away?
"I was like, 'Come on, who is this, how did you get my number? Stop playing around.' He said: 'No, it's really me, it's Michael.'"
Did he? Wow, that's a killer. We hope this story never ends!
"I still didn't believe it was him and was like, 'Dude, seriously, I got to go.'"
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