Kinda nasty sounding thing to say but, as Starving Artist pointed out, this is par for the course for religious believers. You hear it every day and in relation to every tragedy so why single this one out?
It’s funny that I was just watching In Cold Blood the other day and right from the start I was saying, “how come this music is so brilliant?” The credits came on and, you guessed it: “music by Quincy Jones.”
Can I also add to this anti Quincy Jones sentiment?
Last year, Quincy Jones stated rather matter of factly that Michael Jackson didn’t have vitiligo at all, he just, “didn’t want to be black.”
The full quote, after being asked what he thought about MJ’s vitiligo:
And. . . the autopsy report very clearly states that Michael Jackson did, in fact, have vitiligo. So, fuck off, Quincy Jones. How much money did Michael Jackson make you? How much did he add to or define your career? And you took his death as an opportunity to seize on tabloid bullshit. Ridiculous.
Like Mr. Jones, I’m rather surprised to learn that vitiligo causes one’s face to transmogrify into a kabuki mask.
Don’t be glib. You know exactly what my point there was.
Sure, the guy had a plastic surgery addiction, but to suggest he bleached himself because he hated being black and that him having vitiligo is bullshit, well, that’s a little fucked.
Oh you sure told me, Shithead.
I’m sure you can point to your stellar track record of dope achievements to bolster your opinion.
As if posting stuff here means anything.
Woo woo. I got told my Smeghead. Wooo Woo.
IIRC, Jones also pointed out in that interview that everywhere one looked in Jackson’s house there were pictures of blond, blue-eyed children.
IMO, Jones may have wrongly felt that Jackson didn’t have vitiligo, but that doesn’t mean he was being mean-spirited in his comments. We don’t know from the autopsy report how much of Jackson’s body was affected by vitiligo and it’s entirely possible that Jones simply never saw evidence of it. But whether he ever saw evidence of it or not, it’s obvious that Jackson wanted to be white to whatever degree he could, and that obsession is what Jones found confusing and difficult to understand.
I don’t particularly mean to come off as an evangelist for Quincy Jones here, but I’ve followed him fairly closely for some time and he’s shown himself time and again to be a very sensitive, caring and compassionate person, and one with strong humanitarian instincts for both private individuals and the victims of catastrophic disaster. He taped a raw, unscripted and unplanned video a couple of days after the earthquake occurred, pleading with people to send donations to Wyclef Jean’s Yele Haiti Foundation, and I think it speaks fairly well to his feelings with regard to God as they relate to the earthquake in Haiti. His comments are as follows:
“Hello, I’m Quincy Jones. As you all know the island of Haiti has been struck by a catastrophic disaster. As our prayers go out to the countless victims of the disaster and their loved ones, I urge you to please look into your hearts and contribute anything you can to the disaster relief efforts. This is NOT a dress rehearsal – if there was ever a time to give, this is it. To give five dollars to Yele Haiti, Wyclef Jean’s foundation that is working on the ground in Haiti now, simply text “YELE” to 501501. As we showed with “We Are the World,” there is no force greater than what we can do collectively to help our fellow man in their time of desperation and need. Haiti is the personification of God telling us that together we can and must do more than any of us can do alone. We are family now.” Cite
You are slowly turning into ivn. In order to defeat him, you must become him.
Cut me off at the knees, why don’t ya.
I’ll give Quincy a pass in light of his other work and the fact we all say things that come out wrong from time to time, but the video is horrid. Let a troop of howler monkeys loose in an Ecstacy lab and you might get a group shot half as disgustingly masturbatory. Most of the stars seem to be indulging in some “Get a good shot of me looking caring… NO ASSHOLE! Get a good shot of me looking caring from my left side! And Bridges if you step in my key light one more fucking time I’m gonna… hey, we got any of those Haitian kids here we could like hold their hands and clap or whatever? Yeah I know this is LA but there’s gotta be a skinny black kid somewhere in this town, get him in here and the audience won’t know the difference… NO! IT WAS MY FUCKING IDEA! WE’RE NOT ALL GETTING SKINNY BLACK KIDS THAT’LL TAKE THE SPOTLIGHT OFF ME!”
Jeff Bridges rehearsing his role as Dan Akroyd is just bizarre, Groban and Streisand both look like they have white limos to catch afterwards but not before they care a while, and Adam Levine looks ex-fucking-actly the same way he looked (“I care… see… I’m not smiling”) in the 30 ROCK Milton Green WATW parody (start at 1:15). The whole thing is a big enough pasteurized processed cheese like food product to kill every lactose intolerant Haitian in one day.
And am I just neurotic or did Jamie Foxx’s Ray Charles imitation seem in poor taste and far more “Look what I can do! Jamie FOXX!” than sincere? (Of course Foxx has always struck me as the most self-enamored cloying megalomaniacal assholes in the biz [I started loathing him with that so obviously rehearsed Oscar glurge] and this from a guy who thinks he’s one of the most talented men in Hollywood.) I don’t think Tony Bennett knew where he was (“What’s this for again? Ernie Kovacs gambling debts?”) and I’m guessing the fact it’s for charity didn’t take so much as a single “heart shaped Perrier ice cubes” off a single rider for most of these schmucks.
And Michael Jackson… oy. Let the man finish decomposing already (he spent most of the 25 years since the last one getting a start on it)- that’s just ghoulish.
I can only assume that Jeff Bridges is going to be playing Dan Akroyd in an upcoming movie and needed to get into character.
This is far more worthy of Jerry Lewis than Quincy Jones. I’m glad so many from the first one sat this one out, though this is one that not even Bob Dylan’s “What the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot was that shit?” solo could have hurt).
Heh – Ernie Kovacs gambling debts. 
Wait–Jamie Foxx actually “did” Ray Charles? This isn’t a joke?
Considering the drubbing Dylan gave him in “Ballad of a Thin Man,” it’s no surprise that Mr. Jones didn’t invite him.
Is that why he refuses to wear the earphones?
(Subtext: You are so old!)
this might be the only visual I could watch to make the We Are The World remake bearable…
Sampiro. Rare form, baby.
…I meant in the song! 