The Moves.

Michael Jackson was a pure rebel. Which, I would think is the reasons why he is so great. Michael never wrote his songs down on paper, like many, many other musicians. In the course of wriring a lot of his songs he would record them and beatbox. He would imatate the instruments using his voice and playing the acutal instuments himself. He is just a musical genius, it’s so unreal to me. Mike was also known as the King of Music Videos. Odd name but true. My mom would always mention how amazing the technology and dances were in Thriller at that time period. And when I watched it after how many years of it being out, I was still blown away. Well, before Michael had a hard time landing his music videos on MTV because he was African American. Thanks to CBS records they persuaded MTV to start showing his music videos, Billie Jean and Beat It. Michael Jackson became the first black man to have his music video premiere on MTV. He gave many black artists hope and recognition. Thriller became known across the world. This dance sequence has been everywhere from Indian films to prisons in the Philipenes. Crazy stuff. Thriller became the most successful music video ever and was put into the Guinness World Records. On Youtube, it currently has over seventy five million veiws. And Beat It, was immitated frequently everywhere. I don’t blame the people who did though. That music video is hard core. In Bad, the ninteen minute music video he permormed his famous croutch grab. Oprah had asked him one time he had appeared on the show, about why he would do such a sexual move. He described it as not being planned at all and it just had happened. It was conterversal topic among fans and critics. Some people called it genius while others called it “infamous”. In his hit Smooth Criminal he performs the famous, anti-gravity lean which he was granted U.S. Patent No. 5,255,452. The MTV Video Vanguard Artist of the Decade Award was given to Michael to give credit to his accomplishments in 1980s, the year after the MTV Video Vanguard Artist of the Decade Award was renamed in his honor. Michael Jackson swept up the music industry like no other.