Moon walking 2.0…
Tonight, our family watched Sony’s Daddy Day Camp, a mediocre film, but with enough funny moments to make it worthwhile. I’d give it a 5 out of 10. Anyhow, when the end credits rolled up, out jumped the fantastic Jackson Five classic of all time ‘I Want You Back‘ which my kids had never heard. They were shocked to find out that it was Michael Jackson singing, so we popped straight over to YouTube to check out the video and the young pre-surgery MJ. The song is now part of out iTunes collection.
They liked the young MJ’s moves, which led me to talk about his award winning performance of Billie Jean that led Fred Astaire to declare him as the greatest dancer of our time. So we just had to see it and the legendary moon walk, which in this performance is part of a massive extended routine to a solo drum+bass at the end, including a brilliant sidewards moonwalk - definitely moonwalk 2.0!
Of course, they wanted to know who Fred Astaire was, so I searched out his Putting on The Ritz routine in which you can see some moves that are directly imported into Jackson’s repertoire, such as the high-leg ‘running on the spot’ in time with the beat, used a lot in the Billie Jean performances.
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