Blogging At Current.com

For the past couple weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to contribute to Current.com‘s Friday covers posts on their music blog, including their post dedicated to finding interesting covers of the King of Pop’s material. (Rest in Peace, MJ.)

Alien Ant Farm haven’t been on the charts in a while, but during the early part of the decade, they were pretty hard to miss. Their cover of MJ’s “Smooth Criminal” was released in 2001, which, appropriately, was also the year that Michael performed with NSYNC at the MTV Video Music Awards and was gearing up to drop his last studio album, Invincible. Here, AAF lead singer Dryden Mitchell does his best impression of MJ’s vocals during the ad-libs, while he and the rest of the band reference several other famous Michael Jackson music videos. And who can forget that random preteen kid popping and locking in the medical face mask? I mean, I know I like it when my music videos include hip dancing but also remain conscious of possible airborne germs.

Definitely check out the rest of the post and let me know some of your favorite Michael Jackson covers as well. I’m probably going to put a few more of mine together too. Plenty of rumors and stories are surfacing as his death is investigated and estate settled, but the music is still the one of the most important aspects of his life.