{"id":15501,"date":"2010-12-13T10:59:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T14:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=15501"},"modified":"2010-12-14T11:17:18","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T15:17:18","slug":"justins-japan-michael-jackson-covers-j-pop-classic-on-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/13\/justins-japan-michael-jackson-covers-j-pop-classic-on-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin&#8217;s Japan: Michael Jackson Covers J-pop Classic on New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><em><strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15525\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Michael3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15525\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15525\" title=\"Michael\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Michael3-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Michael3-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Michael3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Michael3.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#39;Michael&#39; hits stores Dec. 14. (Sony Music)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By <a onclick=\"pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/jetaany.org');\" href=\"http:\/\/jetaany.org\/magazine\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>JQ magazine<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/justin-tedaldi\/6\/8b0\/332\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Justin Tedaldi<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong> (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page <\/strong><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/japanese-culture-in-new-york\/justin-tedaldi\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>here<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong> to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<div>J-pop and MJ fans have reason to rejoice this week.<\/div>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/#\/features\/michael-jackson-s-michael-track-by-track-1004133939.story?tag=hpflash2\"><em>Billboard<\/em><\/a>, Yellow Magic Orchestra\u2019s 1979 electropop smash \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7DSue36BpH8\">Behind the Mask<\/a>\u201d will appear on Michael, the first posthumous album from the late recording megastar Michael Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>Penned by YMO\u2019s Oscar-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto with Chris Mosdell, \u201cBehind the Mask\u201d was first brought to Jackson\u2019s attention by legendary producer Quincy Jones during the Thriller sessions in the early \u201980s. The King of Pop cut the Japanese group\u2019s song, adding an extra melody line and additional lyrics. Legal battles barred it from making the album, and the tune languished in the vaults until now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/japanese-culture-in-new-york\/michael-jackson-covers-j-pop-classic-on-new-album\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Click here<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong> to read the rest of the article.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JQ magazine\u2019s\u00a0Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page here to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories.\u00a0 J-pop and MJ fans have reason to rejoice this week. According to Billboard, Yellow Magic Orchestra\u2019s 1979 electropop smash \u201cBehind the Mask\u201d will appear on Michael, the first posthumous album from the late recording [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,340,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity","category-justins-japan","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-421","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15501"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15509,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15501\/revisions\/15509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}