Many of us know (and love) Michael Jackson's Black or White song, and the music video is a favorite classic. Few know that there was an extended version of the video. This is the second half of that l...
Many of us know (and love) Michael Jackson's Black or White song, and the music video is a favorite classic. Few know that there was an extended version of the video. This is the second half of that longer music video of Black or White.
Also experimentally uploaded in Odysee to see how that works!
PS. marked NSFW partly because of Michael's sexy moves and partly because of "other things"!...
For those too young or have forgetten, this is updated version. The original lacked all the racist tagging on the car and windows. In the original he was just randomly destroying stuff.
I'd also forgotten what a strange blend of weird and awesome it is. Just this tangent off of the music video that's all a dance of protest and anger, but with the utterly bizarre shouts that don't match the feel of the visuals.
I think it not only works, but looking back at the controversy of it makes it work more.
but with the utterly bizarre shouts that don't match the feel of the visuals.
I feel it matches perfectly, like you said it's a dance of protest and anger, to me the improvised shouts are like outbursts of passion and anguish.
Not disagreeing with your opinion, the vocalisations are a little jarring. This music video (and a ton of other Michael videos) were a huge part of my childhood so maybe I'm just used to his shouts being a part of the visual.
I get what you mean for sure. The reason it's out of match for me is that he used the same kind of things in other places and times, so it kinda felt like part of his normal performances.
Could just be that his primal cries were what he used in other places, so it made internal sense to him, and I'm just not getting that as a viewer/fan. His voice was certainly not pitched to do gutteral and deep screams, so that might have been as harsh as he could get, so it showed up in multiple performances.
Dunno. The emotion of it carries anyway. No matter what anyone thinks about him outside of his performances, the man was top tier as a performer. He could carry more emotion in a five minute dance than some actors manage to convey in a career.
Tangentially, it's strange in a way that I was around when he was practically a god of music, back in the eighties and nineties, but I didn't become a fan until later on when I revisited his music. Before that, I enjoyed his music, but didn't have that kind of connection to it that I developed later, where his stuff can move me.