Long before the King of Pop took over the world there existed a dance called the backslide. It was a slide step perfected most famously by Bill Bailey. The backslide would become even more famous
Long before the King of Pop took over the world there existed a dance called the backslide. It was a slide step perfected most famously by Bill Bailey. The backslide would become even more famous as Michael Jackson’s moonwalk. In the end, Jackson was so goddamn weird that his non-performer personality overshadowed many of his contributions, but when he busted that moonwalk out at Motown’s 25th anniversary Special, I was floored. The old art form was back, back in a body openly receptive to both the old masters as well as the newest patchwork offerings of plastic surgery.
As one who’s witnessed the complete tragic-heroic arc of his career, I’m at loss to derive much meaning from his death. Only the most innocent or sadistic could have hoped for his shape-shifting delusions to carry on much longer. It was an act both unsustainable and intolerable. Michael Jackson could never have been that crazy without first having been that rich. And he was rich because he was an amazing dancing and singing automaton for most of his life. That said, I can’t imagine anyone truly thinking a return to performing was about to revitalize him or his career. The O2 gigs were fated. Destiny tinged with any glory was out of the question from the first announcement. Michael Jackson might have been a pop culture superman but in the end, he was just a cartoon.
I liked that Trace, thanks!
Stars are all fucking deviants like Michael. I’m sad MJ is dead because now he can never guest post his sick yet entertainng takes here in the House of Deviancy. You hear me Derrick?
Its so lovely that this has become an impromptu Jackson Weekend. I’d like to see a little special edition Open Mic Jackson content also.
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Yeah? Well five years ago did you think Mike Tyson would be viewed as anything other than an explosive, self-destructive monster? Did you predict Mickey Rourke would ever return to the scene as a “serious” actor. The tragedy – and it is a tragedy – of MJ’s untimely death is that he died before time gave him some modicum of redemption. Would the ill-fated run of shows in London have staged his comeback? Most likely not. But what if critics and fans hailed them as successes, allowing the world an opportunity to partly re-humanize MJ?
What if, 20 years down the road, MJ were a 70 year-old man who in the recent decades of his life found peace within himself? For all except engineers of holocaust, redemption is possible. Can not even a sadistic killer serving a life sentence find light and give back in his own way?
I like to believe in the idea of all things in good time.
Michael was a victim of childhood trauma and abuse. I don’t your Mr Crutchfield is being fair. Michael had a sense of shame, He had a sense of self loathing, so he covered himself up to protect himself and they called him Wacko Jacko as a result. He was not weird. He would weep for the disappearing grizzly in Canada. He had a lot of compassion. He had a lot of love. He had a lot of innocence. He had a lot of joy and at times he could go ecstatic.
I regret not having the opportunity to be a rubber over on Jacko’s ranch.
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Even Preck is sad about Michael Jackson.
“He was not weird. He would weep for the disappearing grizzly in Canada.”
Whhhaat?
you assholes are all talking shit about michael jackson because you’re bummed and you want to seem nihilistic and untouchable. there’s nothing wrong with admitting that michael was a huge figure and he was part of our lives. tremendously talented, never had a chance to live a normal life, was maybe to most viciously attacked media figure in history. was never proven guilty of any of the horrible things people say about him. people loved that guy all over the world. there’s no new ground to cover in trashing michael jackson, it’s all been said so just fucking chill.
all you fags defending MJ might wanna consider getting over yourselves. he wasn’t your friend, or you family so who gives a fuck? trash the guy. he was a freak. and he was fucking weird. i dig his (early) music, shit, i’m listening to ‘all night dancing,’ as i type this, but come the fuck on. he was a twisted fuck who probably molested kids and generally acted like a fucking fruitcake oddball. nothing is gonna change that, not even some bullshit redemption.’ deal with it you oversensitive fucks.
@kuntz word.
hey kuntz
you’re stupid. go fuck yourself. your opinion means less than nothing to me, go ahead and try to say something clever about what a freak he was, that’ll really be something to be proud of.
that musics kinda shitty on that dance video, just to let you know…
was in a club last night : horrible. pedo jack-o is everywhere. you can’t even walk the street without hearing his annoying gay voice. rha! i’m glad the douche is dead, but, could they please forget about him now, please?
@bob : still, you seem ‘touché’.
I’ll take Bobby Brown over Michael Jackson anyday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F74f8edPkIE
That video is by far the grooviest thing I’ve seen on SBTCV. Michael Jackson? Ho-hum
i hope some wily iranian puts a bullet in ahmedickinabox so he can get back on the front page real soon
A Jackson caper always blew the middle east out of the papers. For real, the guy was bigger than Islam.
Blasphemy! Also, dayum those guys had some moves! It is fun to talk like MJ; the whole bar was doing it all day yesterday at happy hour.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196009/Im-better-dead-Im-How-Michael-Jackson-predicted-death-months-ago.html
That’s Harlem Renaissance dancing. Those were the days when Harlem nightclubs jumped like this, and when white people started going up to Harlem. The mayor’s office or someone, people in power or something didn’t like it, and they enacted the Cabaret laws to stop the dancing. Similar to the way they did it in lower manhattan in the early 00′s.
You never heard a single complaint about it from Vice or Gavin though? Not trying to piss anyone off?
actually there was a full article complete with an interview with kevin bacon.
got a link or an article title?
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