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Printablewhen did Michael Jackson ever say anything such as, "I invented the Moonwalk"???
A load of rubbish. He only took something, refined it in his own style, and gave it a better context for it to exist in. The fact that he does it so well, get's a lot of ppl doesn't it? If you look at his BJ routine, the 'moonwalk', is only a fraction of the entire the dance. There is a lot more to his dancing than just the 'moonwalk'. | |
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twink69 said: As if Michael Jackson didn’t already have enough problems — now there’s a claim that he didn’t invent the Moonwalk.
advertisement The dance step is one of Jackson’s biggest claims to fame; the embattled singer is so closely associated with it that he called his 1988 autobiography “Moonwalk.” But now Jackson's older sister LaToya is claiming that a dancer from the television show “Soul Train” taught Michael how to Moonwalk. “I don’t know if you had this show called the ‘Soul Train,’” LaToya told British television host Frank Skinner this weekend. "There was this dancer Geoffrey, who was always doing the Moonwalk on that show. He taught Michael how to do it." LaToya said that it had been called the backslide, but claimed that Michael changed the name after he learned it from Geoffrey. “Sunday was the day to workout. Michael would take an hour and dance an hour straight, non-stop.” Jackson’s rep’s didn’t return calls for comment. ...This is NEWS 2 u??? and u call yourself a Michael Jackson fan???   | |
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agentmonday said: when did Michael Jackson ever say anything such as, "I invented the Moonwalk"???
A load of rubbish. He only took something, refined it in his own style, and gave it a better context for it to exist in. The fact that he does it so well, get's a lot of ppl doesn't it? If you look at his BJ routine, the 'moonwalk', is only a fraction of the entire the dance. There is a lot more to his dancing than just the 'moonwalk'. MJ also heavily borrowed from the late Bob Fosse. The high-water black pants with white socks and black shoes; tilting the fadora with the shoulders hunched over while one leg is stretched over to the side: All Fosse. Rent the "Pajama Game" (where Fosse danced), "Little Prince" the Snake in the Grass dance sequence in particular (Fosse choreographed and danced as the Snake), or "Fosse", the Broadway musical tribute to him. Just like with the moonwalk, MJ incorporated Fosse's moves into his work, turning them into his own signature style. Maybe Bob was too busy chain-smoking and chasing leading ladies to even notice. 
Usher and Justin Timberlake are now heavily borrowing from MJ, and the next generation of male pop singer/dancers will most likely borrow from them and so on and so on. That's showbiz.  [Edited 10/24/04 8:57am] ~Using the Fat Albert emoticon 'cause no one else is...  ~ | |
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