Monday, May 19, 2014

Michael Jackson returns

Although there were nearly 20 A-list performances at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards, it was the late Michael Jackson who garnered the biggest cheer of the evening at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

A computer-generated performance of the King of Pop dancing and singing a new song, Slave to the Rhythm, off his posthumous album Xscape prompted an emotional standing ovation from the crowd.

Xscape, released on May 2, features eight previously unreleased songs from Jackson that were recorded between 1983 and 1999.

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It certainly wasn’t easy to get Michael back to the stage five years after his passing though. According to Billboard, it took “nearly half a year of planning, choreography and filming,” along with the development of new technology.

Technology that the company, Hologram USA Inc. and Musion Das Hologram Ltd., which is responsible for creating the Tupac hologram, said it was actually theirs.

According to CBS Los Angeles, Hologram USA Inc. and Musion Das Hologram Ltd. sued Jackson’s estate and producers of the awards show Thursday (May 15) in a  Nevada federal court, but the judge ruled there wasn’t enough evidence to show that “the planned 3-D image would violate patents held by Hologram USA Inc. and Musion Das Hologram Ltd.”

(MIchael Jackson VEVO)

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