Music as Culture, Music as Tribute

Dwele’s tribute to Michael Jackson is the most honest and authentic expression marking the passing of the pop legend I’ve yet seen.

Essentially a cover version, but with no reasonable cause for publishing claims or financial transactions to take place. This is simultaneously an artistic expression and cultural communication of something for which there aren’t any right words.

It’s pop music by an important recording artist, using the intellectual property of another.

But it’s not commerce.