Immortal (Michael Jackson album)
| Immortal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Jackson remix album | ||||
|
Publication |
November 21, 2011 |
|||
|
admission |
1969-2011 |
|||
| Label (s) | Epic Records , MJJ Music | |||
|
Title (number) |
20 (Standard Edition) / 27 (Deluxe Edition) |
|||
|
running time |
76:34 min (Standard Edition) / 106: 09 (Deluxe Edition) |
|||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Immortal is a remix album by Michael Jackson that was released on November 21, 2011 by Epic Records . The album is also the soundtrack to Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour by Cirque du Soleil , which started on October 2, 2011 in Montreal . Immortal is the eighth album released by Sony and Motown / Universal since Jackson's death on June 25, 2009. It is also a posthumously published original album after Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) and Michael .
background
On October 3, 2011, Sony Music Entertainment announced that over 40 of Jackson's original recordings by producer Kevin Antunes have been reissued. Immortal includes an alternate version of the Jackson 5's ABC song as well as a number of remixes such as a choral version of They Don't Care About Us . While over 60 songs were used for the stage show, the album consists of only 20 or 27 selected songs in the deluxe version. The album was released on November 21, 2011 at the start of the show's tour, which included 100 shows in the 47 largest concert halls in the United States. The show wasn't performed in Europe and Asia until 2013.
Track list
| # | title | Featuring | producer | length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Workin 'Day and Night (Immortal Version) | Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson * | 3:36 | |
| 2 | The Immortal Intro (Immortal Version) | The Jackson 5 , Janet Jackson | 3:07 | |
| 3 | Childhood (Immortal Version) | Michael Jackson, David Foster | 4:35 | |
| 4th | Wanna Be Startin 'Somethin' (Immortal Version) | Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson * | 3:07 | |
| 5 | Dancing Machine / Blame It on the Boogie (Immortal Version) | The Jackson 5; The Jacksons | The Jacksons | 4:49 |
| 6th | This Place Hotel (Immortal Version) | The Jacksons | The Jacksons | 2:08 |
| 7th | Smooth Criminal (Immortal Version) | Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson * | 1:59 | |
| 8th | Dangerous (Immortal Version) | Teddy Riley, Michael Jackson | 2:41 | |
| 9 | The Jackson 5 Medley: I Want You Back / ABC / The Love You Save (Immortal Version) | The Jackson 5 | The Corporation | 3:45 |
| 10 | Speechless / Human Nature (Immortal Version) | Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones | 3:18 | |
| 11 | Is It Scary / Threatened (Immortal Version) | Rockwell , 50 cents | Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Michael Jackson | 5:05 |
| 12 | Thriller (Immortal Version) | Quincy Jones | 3:32 | |
| 13 | You Are Not Alone / I Just Can't Stop Loving You (Immortal Version) | Siedah Garrett | R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones | 6:07 |
| 14th | Beat It / State of Shock (Immortal Version) | The Jacksons, Mick Jagger | Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones | 3:09 |
| 15th | Jam (Immortal Version) | Heavy D | Michael Jackson, Teddy Riley, Bruce Swedien | 2:37 |
| 16 | Planet Earth / Earth Song (Immortal Version) | Michael Jackson, David Foster, Bill Bottrell * | 4:04 | |
| 17th | They Don't Care About Us (Immortal Version) | Michael Jackson | 3:36 | |
| 18th | I'll Be There (Immortal Version) | The Jackson 5 | Hal Davis | 1:53 |
| 19th | Immortal Megamix: Can You Feel It / Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough / Billie Jean / Black or White (Immortal Version) | The Jacksons | The Jacksons / Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson / Bill Bottrell | 9:08 |
| 20th | Man in the Mirror (Immortal Version) | Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson * | 4:17 |
(*) Co-producer
Music genre
The original compositions were reinterpreted by music designer Kevin Antunes, which is primarily based on the tension curves of the original show by the circus company Cirque du Soleil, and accordingly takes into account the choreography on the stage. Antunes mixed rare recordings of various concerts or performances, for example a slip of the tongue in the piano accompaniment to I'll Be There with the original compositions and also selected older Motown pieces from Jackson's repertoire. The songs were also digitally remastered.
Chart successes
The album reached several chart placements in various countries, including number 24 on the US Billboard 200 , where it remained in the charts for 13 weeks.
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 DE
|
 AT
|
 CH
|
 UK
|
 US
|
|||
| 2011 | Immortal |
DE23 (2 weeks) DE |
AT29 (2 weeks) AT |
CH17 (5 weeks) CH |
UK65 (1 week) UK |
US24 (13 weeks) US |
First published: November 21, 2011
|
reception
Jens Bauszus from Focus Online only recommended the album to die-hard fans of the late artist:
“The newly revised versions do not have a magical effect on the record. Despite the digitally revised sound, one feels more reminiscent of a selection of maxi singles B-sides from the 80s. That can sound quite exciting, as with the freshly polished opening bars of ' Dangerous ' or ' Thriller '. All in all, the new recordings seem tiring, if not irritating, when unexpected elements of tension pop up in some places that go perfectly with the circus show, but have nothing to do with the original. "
Randall Roberts rated two and a half stars out of four on the Los Angeles Times Music blog page . As with similar productions, such as the Beatles album Love , it is above all the mixtape- like character that makes it difficult for the listener to see the music detached from the pictures. Immortal would also be a bit cheesier than the Beatles interpretation.
Even Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic (two out of five stars) criticized the character of the album. Antunes would not reinterpret and recontextualize the songs, but rather try to fabricate hit medleys that mainly focus on the hookline . He too doubts the sense of the album and describes it as "unnecessary".
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Jens Bauszus: Immortal in the circus ring. In: Focus Online . November 21, 2011, accessed May 9, 2014 .
- ↑ New Michael Jackson album 'Immortal' in November. Excite.de , October 6, 2011, accessed May 9, 2014 .
- ↑ Samira Lazarovic: Michael Jackson's new album: "Immortal" - Immortal Circus. n-tv , November 18, 2011, accessed May 9, 2014 .
- ↑ Search on Billboard.com
- ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
- ↑ Randall Roberts: Album Review: Michael Jackson's “Immortal”. In: Los Angeles Times . November 21, 2011, accessed May 9, 2014 .
- ↑ Immortal at Allmusic (English). Retrieved May 10, 2014.