« All I want to say is that they don’t really care about us
» : « All I wanna say is they don’t give a fuck about us “. This song by Michael Jackson was released in 1995. At the time, this cry for the oppressed and the discriminated against created a controversy. The very “cash” lyrics want to shatter prejudices, but were not well understood. A suit was deemed anti-Semitic and censored (” Jew me, sue me “). Michael Jackson reacted by recalling that the song was there to denounce discrimination and that he wanted to be ” everyone’s voice » : « I am the voice of the accused and the attacked. (…) I am the skinhead, I am the Jew, I am the black man, I am the white man. » (« I am the voice of the accused and the victims. I am the skinhead, I am the Jew, I am the Black, I am the White ”). A message added to the disc booklet. The hired director Spike Lee had defended the song for which he had directed the clip partly shot in Rio.
“Great songs don’t expire”
Twenty-five years later, we find him behind the editing bench to offer a new version of the clip, incorporating many news images and many Black Live Matters events around the world. Images of previous versions of the clip are preserved, we see Michael Jackson in Brazil or in a prison in Queens.
In a statement about this new clip, broadcast on the official Youtube channel of Michael Jackson, the multi-award-winning director, and next president of the jury at Cannes, said: ” Great songs do not get old, do not perish, because the struggles continue. This is why this song is a hymn for this chaotic and pandemic world in which we aim. “The director emphasizes that this” short film “was made for” continue the fight for equality for all. »
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