Blog 14: Michael Jackson King Of Pop

Rockin’ Robin

In the music video the Michael Jackson and the Jackson brothers had the very same characteristics. They all had contained a same level of dancing on a stage in front of an audience.

The music video was related to the lyrics of the song. Michael Jackson always makes it important that the music videos property relates to the music video. This is because if a music video doesn’t relate to a music video then it will not make sense.

In this video Michael Jackson was on the spot light and had many close ups that the record label may have requested. As Michael Jackson was always on the spot light he must have known that he may need to show off some dance moves. There was lots of cuts of him performing on stage in different scenes of the music video.

In the music video there was always cut scenes of Michael Jackson performing on stage in different music videos. This would be intertextual reference because the music video had contained clips from other music videos.

The lip synching for the music video for Rockin’ Robin was very basic which made the music video good and productive.

Rock with You

In the music video for rock with you Michael Jackson was the only character in the music video. He was always dancing in every scene of the music video. The character that he was singing about was not in the video.

The music video had been related to the lyrics because he was singing about a girl and he was in a place that looked like a club and that’s where women go.

Throughout the music video there was many close up of Michael Jackson. As he was the only person in the video he was always being shown and keeping up with the dancing.

As he was not singing with his brothers in this music video this music video of him had kick start his solo career.

Billy Jean

In the music video for billy jean Michael Jackson was a very different character to the other characters in the music video. He seemed to have some kind of power anything he touches glows or turns into something for example the cat turned in to a tiger or the tiger cloth had turned into a live tiger.

The music video had made a lot of sense because the properties of the music video were related to the song.

Beat It

In this music video Michael jackson is presented as a peace maker. The video consists two gangs which who are very angry with each other. Both gangs go to one place late in the night to begin their brawl. The two gang leaders both had knives and before the got to stab each other Michael jackson comes and peace's it out and they all started to dance. This was a good move as dancing can be used to solve problems like fighting. Both gangs started dancing and which ended the music video. 

The music video presents peace and unity.

Thriller

In the music video Michael Jackson is presented as 3 different breed a werwolf, zombie and a human. The music video shows 3 different night where Michael is one of each breed. Sharing his night out with girlfriend. The mise en scene of the video is very dark and gloomy the characters both wear old school clothing which anticipates the sound and noise in the music video.

Bad

In this music video Michael jackson had a change of appearance. His skin colour had turned white even though he was originally black. After his success from the thriller music video. People was pumped up about seeing his latest one "Bad". The video was premiered on BBC for the first time. This was a classic because people love his dancing and they wanted to see the new Michael.

Black or White 
This music video was used to promote a message of skin colour. This was because Michael had suffered a skin disease which made his skin white when it was black. Many critics had stated the music video as groundbreaking because of how the media was treating Michael. some had named him strange because of the change. 

Overall the music was used to bring back his reputation as well as career.

Earth Song 

This music video was made to to send out a message. This is because the way that people treated the world at the time was poor and we still do. By having countless wars, not providing for poor families which make children die.