Black and White ends with all of the different people melding into each other while they sing.

Wasn't there an inexplicably long ending that had no lyrics to it? I remember it their way. Let me google.

eta: Wikipedia backs them up: "Controversy was generated concerning the last four minutes of the original music video. Jackson walks out of the studio as a black panther and then morphs into himself.[13] Then he walks outside to perform some of his most physically complicated dance techniques, in a similar way to "Billie Jean". This part contained sexually suggestive scenes when Jackson starts to grab his crotch[12], and then zips his pants up. In the original version, Jackson is seen smashing windows[12], destroying a car and causing an inn (called the "Royal Arms") to explode. "

Wikipedia says:

Controversy was generated concerning the last four minutes of the original music video. Jackson walks out of the studio as a black panther and then morphs into himself.[13] Then he walks outside to perform some of his most physically complicated dance techniques, in a similar way to "Billie Jean". This part contained sexually suggestive scenes when Jackson starts to grab his crotch[12], and then zips his pants up. In the original version, Jackson is seen smashing windows[12], destroying a car and causing an inn (called the "Royal Arms") to explode. Jackson later apologized saying that the violent and suggestive behaviour was an interpretation of the animal instinct of a black panther, and MTV and other music video networks removed the last four minutes from subsequent broadcasts.[13] To make the vandalism more palatable to viewers, racist graffiti was digitally added to the windows that Jackson smashes (reading "KKK Rules", "Nigger Go Home", "Hitler Lives" and "No More Wetbacks").

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Just heard: Forever Young for a Pepsi/MLBA ad. NOOOOOOooooooo!

(Version was interesting, I just hate having it used for an ad.)

The one with Paul and Linda McCartney was good, too.

Here's the full version of the Black or White video. (At least, that's how it's labeled. I haven't watched to the end yet.) [link]

edit: yeah, that's the right one. The weird scene starts around 4:45.

a famous person has died, we go live to somewhere tangentially related

I must bE alone in my indifference to Michael Jackson's death. He was too creepy for me to like.

Whoa. Saw the zoo at UCLA Medical Center. Don't want to watch the coverage, though. Too much weeping and gnashing of teeth. I'll just think wistfully of Off The Wall, one of the best albums ever recorded.

I must bE alone in my indifference to Michael Jackson's death. He was too creepy for me to like.

He definitely got creepy, but like ita, I've got that whole wistful thing going on for Off the Wall and Thriller and the fact that it really was a big part of the soundtrack of my adolescence.

it really was a big part of the soundtrack of my adolescence

And not just that -- I remember the Jackson Five from childhood, as a performing group and as an animated show, for heaven's sake.