(CNN) -- Michael Jackson's "live" performance at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards brought a mixed reaction Sunday night. "Uncomfortable, odd and eerily interesting," is how public relations agent Simone Smalls summed it up in a tweet. "Not quite sure what to feel. #MissingMJ" Uncomfortable because Jackson died nearly five years ago while preparing for a comeback tour. His remains are resting in a crypt in a Forest Lawn mausoleum. But technology tricked viewers -- and the celebrity audience in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas -- into suspending disbelief for a few minutes to watch the pop icon onstage dancing and singing his "new" song "Slave to the Rhythm."
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The dance moves were not really @placeholder's but apparently those of a stand-in performer who recreated his steps for a computer that then laid on an image intended to replicate Jackson.
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The television audience only heard her say "of @placeholder" when she resumed the intro after the video.
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"What I wanted to say was that I am 17 and a half now," @placeholder said as she accepted Billboard's top new artist award.
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"What I wanted to say was that I am 17 and a half now," Lorde said as she accepted @placeholder's top new artist award.
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@placeholder's said she's had "the opportunity to grow and learn as a new artist" in the last year "in the spotlight."