Michael Jackson hologram performance at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards

Tuesday, May 20, 2014


Michael Jackson was at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards, where he performed Slave to the Rhythm, a song from his posthumous compilation album Xscape that was released on May 9th, as a hologram that took 6 months to set up.
Jackson, in hologram form, performed "Slave to the Rhythm" midway through Sunday night's show with a five-piece band and 16 dancers live onstage. Jackson appeared in gold jacket, white T-shirt and brick red trousers on a set modeled on the art work for the album "Dangerous," an appropriate choice as the track was recorded in 1991 with L.A. Reid and Babyface during the sessions for that album. Released this week on "XSCAPE," which is neck-and-neck with the new Black Keys album for No. 1 on the Billboard 200 next week, the track was produced by Timbaland.

BBMA producers Dick Clark Productions built a special stage at the rear of the MGM Grand Arena that was used only for the Jackson performance. Dancers moved through aisles as Jackson was seen rising from a throne, walking down steps before going into several trademark routines, a moonwalk being one of the them. Lasers, streams of flames and dancers in ancient costumes were part of the film.

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1 comentarii:

Mobile DJ said...

That hologram show looked so real it was untrue crazy what they can do nowdays.

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