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I saw this a long time ago

she said it was inspired this performance

Look carefully.....I see a lot of moves from the Mj Thriller video as well.

Maybe the Single Ladies vid would have been interesting if I hadn't seen this Fosse video a million times before.

How about a warning that crap will blare from your speakers if you play the video?

Mars23 said:

Paula Abdul bit on Fosse, too (WARNING: NSFW)...

Graycap23 said:

Here's Bob Fosse as The Snake In The Grass, in the movie, 'The Little Prince'.

Fast forward to 2:37.

GirlBrother said:

Damn.....Mj is original my ARSE.....

Thanks.

GirlBrother said:

Wow, I saw a lot of Michael Jackson videos in all those moves he did.

Fury said:

Oh yeah...

There was already a thread on this.

GirlBrother said:

oh my god! That's amazing, and I already knew about Bob Fosse. When was this movie made?

Those must have been some good drugs! What song were they dancing too?

NDRU said:

1974.

Fury said:

This is so funny...god that song is crap...Beyonce needs to sort it out..!

Timmy84 said:

not surprising that MJ would know Bob Fosse...but the moves, the hat, even the white socks!

NDRU said:

Yeah after looking at this, I'm now 100% convinced (I don't know why I wasn't before) that MJ was as equally influenced by Bob Fosse as he was James Brown.

NDRU said:

1974

Timmy84 said:

and Mickey Mouse...

NDRU said:

Fosse, JB, Fred, Gene, The Nicholas Brothers and Sammy Jr

That slow part of The Way You Make Me Feel was inspired by Sammy Davis Jr


Beyonce saw it and said "No one will know.....

bboy87 said:

no i think Jonte saw it and told B about it

bboy87 said:

Yeah them too.
MJ came from a good learning school.

Beyonce should've known better thinking people wouldn't know. After seeing the video it was inspired from, how can she not acknowledge it (which she actually did).

ehuffnsd said:

Hehe, I saw Jonte dancing with Beyonce to the song on that crazy-ass Tyra show. I just skimmed it, I caught it while flipping channels.

ehuffnsd said:

Jonte is cool

I heard some of his stuff on Myspace. That's a real character right there

bboy87 said:

I saw a video of his while trying to find Janet's Good Morning America performance last year. I agree on him being a character.

bboy87 said:

and probably most people will never know, any more than they know that the hook of their favorite song is a sample

Graycap23 said:

i thought this was common knowledge

Cuddles said:

Not amongst all the MJ fans I know. I know a few who saw it and believe it but the others think Michael made all that up. I always say that Michael was inspired. There's a great thread at a MJ board that discusses influences and Bob was one of them discussed. I'm gonna see if I can find that thread and post this video over there.