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Thread started 11/22/17 1:55am

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Sex scene in Michael Jackson's "Who Is It" music video?

I'm referring to the Youtube upload of MJ's "Who Is It" - his VEVO channel.

I noticed at minutes 3:44-3:45, there is a scene of a white bed with a figure (one person or two?) under the sheets making particular moves. At 3:53-3:55, the scene appears again and the figure/s under sheets seem to fall off the bed while still covered by the sheets (WTF?!!!).

Does this scene suggest sex in some way?

Oh, and I'm trying to keep this post as appropiate as possible with no explicit content.

[Edited 11/22/17 2:03am]

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Reply #1 posted 11/22/17 9:20am

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To call that a sex scene seems unnecessarily salacious. (It's not exactly the original "Relax" video from Frankie Goes To Hollywood which takes place in a sex and fetish night club. LOL) Let's not forget that "Billie Jean" was all about premarital sex and illegitimate children, and there was a bed scene in it. It's not really something unusual for MJ by the early 90s when "Who Is It" came out.

No one falls off the bed. That moment is really a bit of a nod to "Billie Jean" where the sheets are pulled back and no one is there, symbolizing he never really knew the girl he had been dating. She had another side that was hidden to him. (In "Billie Jean" he gets in bed but when the sheet falls, he's gone - symbolizing he never fucked her and the kid is not his son.)

However, the storyline in the video is that his girlfriend is also a high-class call girl. The silver plates in the video are different personas she uses with different Johns. He finds out and leaves her ass, and she goes back to being a prostitute.

MJ humped and sang about women and sex all the time. This video doesn't really stand out as a unique situation for him. "The Way You Make Me Feel" has him chasing a girl down the street. "The Girl Is Mine" is him fighting w/ Macca over a girl. "Girlfriend" - welp. I always get the feeling people (not you) think MJ was some sexless alien. He was probably as virile as any other red-blooded American male.

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Reply #2 posted 11/22/17 4:09pm

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TrivialPursuit said:

To call that a sex scene seems unnecessarily salacious. (It's not exactly the original "Relax" video from Frankie Goes To Hollywood which takes place in a sex and fetish night club. LOL) Let's not forget that "Billie Jean" was all about premarital sex and illegitimate children, and there was a bed scene in it. It's not really something unusual for MJ by the early 90s when "Who Is It" came out.

No one falls off the bed. That moment is really a bit of a nod to "Billie Jean" where the sheets are pulled back and no one is there, symbolizing he never really knew the girl he had been dating. She had another side that was hidden to him. (In "Billie Jean" he gets in bed but when the sheet falls, he's gone - symbolizing he never fucked her and the kid is not his son.)

However, the storyline in the video is that his girlfriend is also a high-class call girl. The silver plates in the video are different personas she uses with different Johns. He finds out and leaves her ass, and she goes back to being a prostitute.

MJ humped and sang about women and sex all the time. This video doesn't really stand out as a unique situation for him. "The Way You Make Me Feel" has him chasing a girl down the street. "The Girl Is Mine" is him fighting w/ Macca over a girl. "Girlfriend" - welp. I always get the feeling people (not you) think MJ was some sexless alien. He was probably as virile as any other red-blooded American male.



I like your post. cool
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Reply #3 posted 11/22/17 6:19pm

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TrivialPursuit said:

To call that a sex scene seems unnecessarily salacious. (It's not exactly the original "Relax" video from Frankie Goes To Hollywood which takes place in a sex and fetish night club. LOL) Let's not forget that "Billie Jean" was all about premarital sex and illegitimate children, and there was a bed scene in it. It's not really something unusual for MJ by the early 90s when "Who Is It" came out.

No one falls off the bed. That moment is really a bit of a nod to "Billie Jean" where the sheets are pulled back and no one is there, symbolizing he never really knew the girl he had been dating. She had another side that was hidden to him. (In "Billie Jean" he gets in bed but when the sheet falls, he's gone - symbolizing he never fucked her and the kid is not his son.)

However, the storyline in the video is that his girlfriend is also a high-class call girl. The silver plates in the video are different personas she uses with different Johns. He finds out and leaves her ass, and she goes back to being a prostitute.

MJ humped and sang about women and sex all the time. This video doesn't really stand out as a unique situation for him. "The Way You Make Me Feel" has him chasing a girl down the street. "The Girl Is Mine" is him fighting w/ Macca over a girl. "Girlfriend" - welp. I always get the feeling people (not you) think MJ was some sexless alien. He was probably as virile as any other red-blooded American male.

I like your post aswell.

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Reply #4 posted 11/23/17 10:19pm

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Yes

music I'm afraid of Americans. I'm afraid of the world. music
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Reply #5 posted 11/25/17 9:21pm

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It symbolized he was not the one
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