Una abundante cuantía de canciones protagonizadas por Michael a lo largo de su vasta trayectoria musical contiene enunciados muy sobresalientes en su alcance y contenido, induciendo a la reflexión al oyente, una cualidad muy inusual en el panorama de la música pop (atisbándose de un modo más palpable a partir de la publicación del álbum Dangerous -aunque la primera aproximación crítica de Jackson hacia el mundo en el que residía se produjo, en mi opinión, con el vindicativo canto a la solidaridad que se desprende en Man in the Mirror), cuyas letras, en su mayoría, compuestas por otros solistas -una tendencia creciente desde fines de los años noventa, cuyo cénit ha albergado a nuestros días-, revisten un carácter muy laxo e inofensivo para el establishment. Canciones inocuas, todas ellas trufadas de romanticismo mustio y sobado y/o apelaciones de marcada impronta sexual explícita o subliminal, concebidas para no alertar demasiado a los albaceas del statu quo, así como a los apologistas del discurso políticamente correcto y predecible.
Como muestras gráficas atestiguadoras de lo anterior, consigno las siguientes citas:
Man in the Mirror (Bad)
I'm starting with the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you want to make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change
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I've been a victim of a selfish kind of love
It's time that I realize
That there are some with no home, not a nickel to loan
Could it be really me, pretending that they're not alone?
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MAKE THAT CHANGE!
Heal the World (Dangerous)
If you want to know why
There's love that cannot lie
Love is strong
It only cares of joyful giving
If we try we shall see
In this bliss we cannot feel
Fear of dread
We stop existing and start living
The it feels that always
Love's enough for us growing
So make a better world
Make a better place
Heal the world
Make it a better place
For you and for me
And the entire human race
There are people dying
If you care enough for the living
Make a better place for you and for me
And the dream we were conceived in
Will reveal a joyful face
And the world we once believed in
Will shine again in grace
Then why do we keep strangling life
Wound this earth, crucify its soul
Though it's plain to see
This world is heavenly
Be god's glow
Keep the Faith (Dangerous)
Better stand up and act like you wanna do right
Don't play the fool for the rest of your life
Work on it brother and you'll make it someday
Go for what you want and don't forget the faith
Look at yourself and what you're doin' right now
Stand back a minute just to check yourself out
Straighten out your life and how you're livin' each day
Get yourself together, 'cause you got to keep the faith
They Don't Care About Us (HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I)
Tell me what has become of my rights
Am I invisible because you ignore me?
Your proclamation promised me free liberty, now
I'm tired of bein' the victim of shame
They're throwing me in a class with a bad name
I can't believe this is the land from which I came
You know I do really hate to say it
The government don't want to see
But if Roosevelt was livin'
He wouldn't let this be, no, no
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All I want to say is that
They don't really care about us
All I want to say is that
They don't really care about us
Earth Song (HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I)
I used to dream
I used to glance beyond the stars
Now I don't know where we are
Although I know we've drifted far
Money (HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I)
If you show me the cash
Then I will take it
If you tell me to cry
Then I will fake it
If you give me a hand
Then I will shake it
You do anything for money
Anything, anything
Anything for money
Would lie for you
Would die for you
Even sell my soul to the devil
Tabloid Junkie (HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I)
It's slander
You say it's not a sword
But with your pen you torture men
You'd crucify the Lord
And you don't have to read it, read it
And you don't have to eat it, eat it
To buy it is to feed it, feed it
So why do we keep foolin' ourselves
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Just because you read it in a magazine
Or see it on the TV screen
Don't make it factual
Though everybody wants to read all about it
Just because you read it in a magazine
Or see it on the TV screen
Don't make it factual, actual
HIStory (HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I)
EVERYDAY CREATE YOUR HISTORY
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Let's harmonize all around the world
En resumidas cuentas, una discografía plagada de momentos imborrables y consejos prestos a ser atendidos diligentemente por todos nosotros, en aras de autorrealizarnos, tanto en lo espiritual, como en lo profesional y personal, sirviendo de guía para el bien común de nuestra demos, haciendo felices a quienes nos rodean y aportando lo más fecundo de nosotros, al servicio de la humanidad.
Un cordial saludo a todos.