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Printablepapaaisaway said: AND LET'S NOT FORGET...
Jeffrey Daniel was also a major inspiration. http://www.youtube.com/wa...VYUAEdXzZw midnightmover said: Indeed. I'm glad to have seen that as it clears up a mystery. I always wondered how Michael transformed himself from the cute but uncool performer we see in 1975 to the ice cold bad motherfucker we saw on Motown 25, Smooth Criminal, Grammys 88, etc. This helps explain it. Thank god he latched onto Bob Fosse cos if he'd stayed performing like he was in 1975, then I don't think any of us, including me, would even be talking about him now. [Edited 7/30/07 15:17pm] Yeah, I already knew about Daniels and the Soul Train influence, but that still left a whole category of MJ moves unaccounted for, until I saw that Bob Fosse clip. There's still a load of other dances he did that need to be cleared up though. Was any of it original? I always presumed so, but I'll have to record an open verdict at this point. Even if we could eventually trace every step back to an earlier source though, that still wouldn't change the brilliance of his synthesis. IMO he improved dramatically on what he took from Fosse and Daniels and brought so much else to the table that his achievement is still an astounding one. [Edited 7/31/07 4:41am] [Edited 7/31/07 4:43am] [Edited 8/1/07 6:32am] “The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
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