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Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Hil R. - Jun 25, 2009 3:31:08 pm PDT #25937 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

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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sarameg - Jun 25, 2009 3:33:12 pm PDT #25938 of 30000

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

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


Connie Neil - Jun 25, 2009 3:33:52 pm PDT #25939 of 30000
brillig

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


Hil R. - Jun 25, 2009 3:34:20 pm PDT #25940 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

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.


Polter-Cow - Jun 25, 2009 3:39:55 pm PDT #25941 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

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


Stephanie - Jun 25, 2009 3:41:15 pm PDT #25942 of 30000
Trust my rage

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


§ ita § - Jun 25, 2009 3:41:27 pm PDT #25943 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


Barb - Jun 25, 2009 3:43:51 pm PDT #25944 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”

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.


Amy - Jun 25, 2009 3:45:01 pm PDT #25945 of 30000
Because books.

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.


Barb - Jun 25, 2009 3:46:27 pm PDT #25946 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”

God yeah-- I still get teary every time I hear "I'll Be There" or "Ben."