Video of Michael Jackson’s posthumous song launched on microblogging site

Five years after his death, Michael Jackson is back with a new video that breaks new ground by premiering on Twitter. The late King of Pop – who pioneered music videos in the 1980s with the advent of MTV – had written the song “A Place With No Name” with loose inspiration of the 1972 folk rock classic “A Horse With No Name” by the band America. Michael Jackson’s estate and Epic Records decided to premiere an accompanying video of the song, which was released in May on his posthumous album XSCAPE. The video features archival footage of a mid-career Jackson, dancing in a tight tank top against a black and white backdrop. He was an early enthusiast of matching videos to his songs, at a time that many musicians resented the commercial pressures created by MTV.

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