Tribute to Bruce Swedien, by Isabelle Petitjean for MJBackstage magazine
A tribute to Bruce Swedien, Michael Jackson's emblematic sound engineer by Isabelle Petitjean, looking back on a friendship woven of respect
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
- Aug 28, 2021
- 5 min
Michael Jackson, signs and synchronicities (2/2)
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #14 “I do not believe in meaningless coincidences. I believe every coincidence is a...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
- Aug 24, 2021
- 4 min
Michael Jackson, signs and synchronicities (1/2)
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #13 "The perfume of the soul is the memory. It is the most delicate, the most suave part...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
- Aug 14, 2021
- 5 min
Gary, Indiana, and Michael Jackson
From Gary, Indiana, to Michael Jackson, the entrails of a dizzying trajectory I truly believe that you should go to Gary once in your...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
- Aug 10, 2021
- 4 min
Going back to Indiana, Michael Jackson and Gary
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #12 Gary, Blanket, Katherine and... always, the smart team of mister Randomness Jackson......
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
- Aug 7, 2021
- 10 min
From Encino to Forest Lawn... So close to Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #11 The day after my visit to Westlake Studios was a spring break Sunday. My hotel was not...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
- Aug 3, 2021
- 7 min
On Michael Jackson footsteps in Los Angeles
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #10 With Matt Forger (& Michael Jackson) in Westlake studios Eleven years ago, at this...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
- Jul 31, 2021
- 4 min
Michael Jackson, the chaman
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #9 "Keep the Faith" You know, of course, the song "Keep the Faith". You probably know how...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
- Jul 28, 2021
- 6 min
Michael Jackson, don't trust appearances
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #8 "Appearances are enough to make a world" Jean Anouilh In this summer of 2021, I leave...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
- Jul 24, 2021
- 4 min
Michael Jackson, believe in your dreams
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #7 "You can always dream, and your dreams will come true. But you HAVE TO make them come...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
- Jul 21, 2021
- 5 min
Michael Jackson, meeting his collaborators
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #6 "Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous" Albert Einstein In the fall of 2009,...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
- Jul 17, 2021
- 3 min
Michael Jackson, one Voice, one Everything
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #5 The most difficult thing, when I had to go to university with my thesis project on...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
- Jul 14, 2021
- 2 min
When Michael Jackson unites people in a smile...
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #4 I was walking along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice the other night. In the middle of...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
- Jul 4, 2021
- 4 min
Michael Jackson, a star to believe in?
12 years following your voice #3 I had spent the summer stunned. Everything was spinning in my head to the point that I was afraid, at...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
- Jul 1, 2021
- 4 min
How Michael Jackson became a part of our life ?
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #2 “Proofs weary the truth” Georges Braque There are certitudes, no, evidences, which...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
- Jun 28, 2019
- 8 min
Michael Jackson, 10 years later...
June 2019. Somewhere in Absurdia, time to review With the end of June comes the time of assessment... With the 10th anniversary of...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
- Jan 25, 2016
- 1 min
"Make your dream devour your life so that life does not devour your dream" Emilie Jolie
Before learning the meaning of the word "impossible", all little girls should be able to realize their first dream... Because it is the...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
- Dec 28, 2014
- 2 min
Prayer
The snow crunched under my feet The cold air stung my face The sky was pink on the horizon... baby pink... hope pink... And these words...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
- Nov 27, 2014
- 3 min
On difficulties to find a publisher to talk about Michael Jackson's work
"As for your book on "Dangerous", you have to give up on the big publishers: they don't support such books, unless you write that MJ is a...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
- Jun 13, 2014
- 4 min
Michael Jackson, the cornerstone
"Show me the stone the builders rejected. This is the cornerstone." St. Thomas No, this is not this Sunday's sermon. But this phrase from...
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