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(Some of) My Favorite Covers of Michael Jackson

Bonnie Barton
4 min readOct 9, 2019
The king of pop, Michael Jackson/Credit: Phil Dent — Redferns

Mama always said: “[Bonnie’s mixtapes] are like a box of chocolates. Ya never know what you’re gonna get!”

At this point is it even possible to be surprised by what I’ve got up my sleeve?

Probably not.

I spun the musical dial here at BMT and here’s where it landed: a random collection of some of my favorite MJ covers by a host of folks from around the globe!

I know he can be polarizing, but I dig his music. It’s that simple.

So today is a celebration of the music of one of the greatest pop icons of any generation!

This doesn’t usually happen: this is the very first song I discovered and it lands the first spot on today’s mixtape.

Actually, I was SO moved by Jose Feliciano’s “I Wanna Be Where You Are” that I stuck it into my Medium drafts immediately upon hearing it a few weeks ago. I knew I was going to create an entire mixtape around it.

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Bonnie Barton
Bonnie Barton

Written by Bonnie Barton

Queen of mixtapes. Lover of music, travel, and fashion. Authentic sharer of life lessons and dating foibles.

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