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The King of Pop presents his most audacious recording yet: 150 minutes of music, 15 of his greatest hits and 15 new songs, including a duet with sister Janet.
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Media Type: CD
Artist: JACKSON,MICHAEL
Title: HISTORY PAST PRESENT & FUTURE
Street Release Date: 06/20/1995
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP

HIStory's 2 CDs (one hits, the other new) were Jackson's attempt to connect his glorious past to a dodgy present and--given it's commercial and artistic performance--cast a shadow on his future. Conceived as his formal coronation as the "King of Pop," HIStory's second disc instead presents Jackson as an epauletted, single-gloved Richard III. By turns paranoid, angry, bitter, sentimental, and, in one instance, possibly anti-Semitic, HIStory was less a collection of songs than a case history. A few tracks--mostly those produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis--are sleek, modern pop/soul, but too much of HIStory has the overblown vacuousness of a musician who knows his time is past, but is unsure as to how to react to the situation. --Steven Mirkin