I Always Think it’s a Little Creepy When Posthumous Music is Released, but Michael Jackson Has Done It With His New Single, ‘Breaking News’

Michael Jackson, King of Pop and pretty much all things modern music the world over, has released a new single – ‘Breaking News.’ I mean, you know, he didn’t release it, his estate or whatever did, because of that whole deceased thing, but hey. It’s classic Michael, it kind of reminds me of a crossbreed of ‘Thriller’ and ‘Billie Jean,’ and it definitely makes me yearn for the mid-eighties.  Sigh.

The song, if you can’t listen to it right now ’cause you’re at work and your boss sucks or whatever, is more or less about the general media response to the person of Michael Jackson between his lawsuits, outlandish behavior and legendary music; here are the lyrics, which aren’t as epic as, you know, ‘The Way You Make Me Feel’ (my personal Jackson song), but they’re good:

Everybody wanting a piece of Michael Jackson.
Reporters stalking the moves of Michael Jackson.
Just when you thought he was done,
he comes to give it again.

No matter what, you just wanna read it again

No matter what, you just wanna feel it again

Now is that strange that i fall in love

Who is the boogie man you thinkin’ of

All went crazy coz im just in love

This is breaking news X2

everybody watching the news of michael jackson

They want to see that I fall,

cause I’m Michael Jackson

You write the words to destroy

like it’s a weapon

you turn your back on the love and you think you can get it again

no matter what, you just wanna read it again
no matter what, you just wanna feel it again

now is that strange that i fall in love

who is the boogie man you thinkin’ of

all went crazy coz im just in love
this is breaking news X2

now is that strange that i fall in love
who is the boogie man you thinkin’ of
all went crazy coz im just in love
this is breaking news X2

all the news today they say CRAZY time
who is stranger today we want this day baby

now is that strange that i fall in love
who is the boogie man you thinkin’ of
all went crazy coz im just in love
this is breaking news X2

now is that strange that i fall in love
who is the boogie man you thinkin’ of
all went crazy coz im just in love
this is breaking news X2

YOU’RE BREAKING NEWS

So?  What did you guys think?  Classic, right?