Thriller

I confess I was never a big fan of Michael Jackson. Yeah, I liked a few of his songs, but I don't have any of his albums and those songs, although excellent in beat, melody and danceability never left a mark on me.

However, one of his videos did. Few things scared me more in my life than the Thriller video. I remember watching it at a friends house and just being petrified. You know when you're a kid and things terrify you but fascinate you at the same time? Well, I'll always think back to when I first watched zombie Michael dancing with a zombie horde with a smile. In that sense, Michael really did make a mark on me - especially since now I love zombie and horror movies, and that was most likely my first exposure to it.

Maybe in the end, it was the dancing I was scared of.

(the sketch is a little old, yes)
We should all dance the thriller now.

*Cause this is thriiiilleeeeer... Thriiiilleeeer night*

Thriller

When Michael Jackson wasn't completely batshit insane, he did some pretty nifty pop music for his time. And with it, he did some bery memorable videos - the most memorable being, probably, Thriller.


I have to admit, when I was a kid, I was scared to death of this video (for some reason, zombies in organized coreography terrified me), so I have a past with it, a sort of fascination with Thriller. Dancing zombies. Yeah, that was pretty awesome for the 80s.

I confess sometimes I try to mimic those dance moves. It's sad to know that the undead can actually dance better than me.