The Battle Of The Boogie 2: This Time It’s Rubbish, Jermaine Jackson!

I am not the biggest fan of Michael Jackson; the early solo stuff is pretty good while the stuff later on the crimes he created in music were overshadowed by the crimes he is alleged to have committed in real life.

As for theJackson5, well if you don’t like them, you have no funk.  No big deal.  Some folk just ain’t funky, Jack.

I could make a list of reasons why the announcement that Jermaine Jackson is re-releasing Blame It On The Boogie is bad, but I only need one.

It’s not because Jermaine wasn’t in theJackson5 when the song was released.  It’s not even that everyone who knows anything will know that it will be no good.

My reason is as follows: Michael Jackson will get ripped off again, and it’s unacceptable.

Michael (Mick)Jacksonis an English songwriter who wrote Blame It On The Boogie, before it was essentially stolen by the managing team behindJackson5, which led to the famous Battle Of The Boogie that captured the music buying public’s attention in ’78.

TheJackson5 version went to number 8, while the original didn’t even crack the top 10.  The songs were released within a week of each other thanks to a problem at the pressing plant producing the Mick Jackson original.

The Battle Of The Boogie is back on. Jermaine Jackson should have left this one on the shelf; he is too old, too strange, and not really a famous enough singer to pull this off.  All he will accomplish here is damaging a great song (no matter the version) and sully his family name by prancing around in a terrible video, a clip of which is available online.

The original is available on iTunes. Buy that instead; it’s the right thing to do.  In any case, Jermaine Jackson is so quiet you won’t be able to hear his vocals anyway.

DIRTRIBUTOR: Henry Hunter