Word: backgrounders
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...undoubtedly a loner; if he lives with someone, there's almost certainly a place in the house - a basement, maybe, or a garage - that would be off-limits to anyone else. He's got some sort of scientific background and may make his living working in a lab. He doesn't like confrontation, but he's seething with repressed anger. And starting Sept. 11, he became in- tensely preoccupied - but seemingly not, strangely enough, with the events that gripped the rest of the nation...
...album opens with “Unbreakable,” a dance number that is as catchy and compelling as the best of Jackson’s past works. With minimal background music, the song is carried by his voice, which courses with passion and vitality. It also features a rap courtesy of the late Notorious B.I.G., which originally appeared in his song “I Can’t Stop the Reign.” Punctuated by the signature scream and sharp exhalation, “Unbreakable” defiantly announces Jackson’s comeback...
...simplicity. “Privacy” is a throwback to “Scream,” both in terms of his voice and the music. Jackson angrily lashes out at his perennial foes, the media, to the sound of cameras clicking busily away in the background. And, while he does not mention her by name, he pays tribute to the death of Princess Diana while simultaneously attacking the paparazzi for causing her demise...
...adopt “The Lost Children.” Unrelentingly, mind-numbingly sweet, the song reminds us to care for the unfortunate young ones who still lack love. The crowning touch of blatant manipulation is the presence of children’s happy, natural voices in the background, which artifically adds to the emotional impact...
...burst out of the glass; one from a two-year old boy sits curled and silent like a raccoon’s paw, taking up almost no space on the black matte. The life that animates each hand’s outline creates tension between the jet-black background and the dark, mottled interior with its rune-like lifelines. And the hands are recognizably human: There is not any bone or blood vessel to remind us that each of us is, essentially, a Halloween skeleton...