Earth Song

Earth Song is a song of Michael Jackson, from his album ''HIStory. Earth Song'' was released as the third single and achieved in different countries first.

Content
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 * Video clip 1
 * 2 Critical
 * 3 Background
 * 4 Radio 2 Top 2000

[Video clip edit ]
The song's music video shows the Earth, destroyed by the people, and alludes to the environmental pollution in the world. In the clip you can see the destruction of tropical rainforests, like the killing of wild animals by poachers. The clip is about aggression between Bosnia and Bosnians returning to their destroyed homes. This scene was shot in Croatia, as the war in Bosnia at that time was still ongoing. At the end of the song cry all the people along with Jackson. They kneel and dig a hole in the mess, and the world magically back in time, when everything was quiet and peaceful.

[Critiquing edit ]
Unlike the fans critics found the song and the clip too pompous and theatrical. Also found that Jarvis Cocker, who in 1996 during a performance of Michael Jackson at theBrit Awards climbed the podium to proclaim this. Fans on the other hand feel that the critics have missed the message of the song, and that there was no Messiah complex, as the critics claimed, in the clip Jackson let himself namely seen as a man who is fighting for a better future, together with all peoples the world. Despite the criticism, the video was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1996.

Background [ edit ]
Michael Jackson made as an adult singer regularly socially tinged music with a charitable nature. With his fame and wealth Jackson thought it only natural to make its contribution to improving the world.

In 1992, Jackson founded the " Heal the World Foundation ". The Earth Song video ends up with a proposal to make donations to the foundation with the text "Help by calling Heal The World Foundation 1-800-HEAL123 '