I just saw "This Is It", the movie culled from rehearsal footage from Michael Jackson's planned final live tour. Even in checked practice performance, minimizing his dance moves and saving his singing voice, you can not take your eyes off MJ for a second. Even modulated, he is the embodiement of his music, his precise movement and vocal phrasing becoming the emotions of his signature songs. Even with all the visual spectacle going on around him, his charisma commands your attention. Let there be no doubt, Madonna and Britney and Justin and Miley and all you other pretenders to the throne with your manufactured spectacles, Michael, even dead, is still the King of Pop. His tour would have been truly spectacular.
