“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.” – Samuel Johnson
Posts tagged Dancing
Five Random Thoughts Jan. 3,2009
Jan 3rd
Random Thought No. 1: I tend to fall into my own world, when my headphones are on. I’ll dance, thinking that I can choreograph a good routine. I focus strictly on having fun when my headphones. I listen to a lot of hip-hop, more so recently with the events in life. I guess, I just like to think I can dance, not so much knowing if I really can. It’s just fun.
Random Thought No. 2: I’ve realized one big omission from my musical library: Aaliyah. She was one of my favorite artist when I was in elementary school, and I think I need to add her stuff to my iPod and music library.
Random Thought No. 3: I work faster than anyone else. So I guess I’m built for this industry right? I don’t know, with speed comes the drawback of more likely to miss. High-risk, high reward.
Random Thought No. 4: I’m wearing purple tomorrow. Awesome! TCU FTW! BEAT BOISE STATE!
Random Thought No. 5: If I keep this up, then I can have 365 blogs up this year. I’m sure I’ll have something to rant about soon. But for now, I’ll end this by saying, blogging is more fun when I don’t think of topics to write about.
The King of Pop — My Turn
Jul 1st
You’re not going to get some elaborate post about how Michael Jackson changed my life or that type of nonsense here because he didn’t, but I can’t help but ignore such a huge moment in my entertainment lifetime.
I look through the music in my ITunes and I realized that many of the songs on here are somehow inspired by Michael Jackson. The hip hop sound, the dancing. You name it. He inspired it.
I wasn’t his biggest fan or support. Nope. Quite honestly, his personality weirded me out, but that wasn’t to say that I didn’t like his music. Geniuses tend to be unique in their own way, and I just accepted Michael for being Michael.
His music was huge, but I think his biggest contribution to our entertainment generation is the being the forefather to music videos. Back when MTV was a struggling first-year network, it played pretty much concert footage and very rarely did you see a full blow production for a music video. Let’s face it, I remember hearing about the video collection being a majority of Rod Stewart.
Enter Michael Jackson and “Thriller.”
This near 15-minutes piece of work was the moment that music videos really took a new approach, whether it be story arcs, matching the video to portray the song’s message or huge elaborate dance sequences. This video made the music video the popular medium that MTV needed.
He later went on to produce other full length feature music videos like “Smooth Criminal”, “Remember the Time” and “You Rock My World.” Think about your favorite music video and think how different would it be if, Michael Jackson didn’t set the tone for adding a storyline to them.
We might still be seeing lots and lots of concert footage.
It’s why MTV VMA’s have the “Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award.” The award is the highest honor it can bestow on an artist, and rightfully so named after the King of Pop.
His music was great. His personality odd. His videos were revolutionary. The world lost its King of Pop. He’s probably chilling with the King of Rock right now.