Michael Jackson.

Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, was and still is one of he most popular and famous pop artists of all time. As a young boy he was in the group 'Jackson 5' his brothers. He was admired and was the lead of the group, the one who could sing and dance the best.



This is the video of The Jackson 5 with 'Rockin Robin' showing different cuts of them dancing and singing to the song in different places. The video consists of different clips of them performing this song for example live on Top of The Pops. This also shows Michael as a very young boy when he first began his career in music.

After Jackson 5 Michael decided he wanted a career of his own. He knew he was able for it and released his first Album 'Got to be there' as an adolescent and then his first released album as an adult was 'Off the Wall'.This was his fifth album which included 'Rock with you' and 'Dont stop til you get enough'

'Rock with you' was a popular music video of Michael's showing his normal true self when he hadn't changed his image at all. He is dressed in a glitter suit and looks very handsome as a young teenage boy. This video was one of his first videos which consists of him just dancing and singing. Special effects are used however to show two of him at one time.


His next album, however, was the biggest and most popular of all time. This caused a public uproar and millions of people became obsessed and interested by Michael Jackson at this point. This was also the album which his most famous pop videos came about.

The first video I will discuss is the music video for 'Billie Jean' which was one of the biggest songs of all time. This video told a story for the first time, and captured the eye of the public. It has become famous for the image of Michael lighting up the floor. Michael was a big believer in magic and wanted magic to occur in this video and this is how they done it. This video really launched his adult career and began his popularity.


However, I still believe that to this day Michael's most famous video was 'Thriller', which everyone waited up until midnight to watch. It was made like a mini movie and was a music video milestone introducing elaborate choreography, costumes and dialogue and the concept of the long-form music video. The long version of the video is 14 minutes long and has had over 1 million views when uploaded onto Youtube. MTV usually showed the short version which was around 5 minutes and still had at least 1 minute of non-music storytelling. The video cost around $500,000 to make and Jackson's record company had no intentions of paying for it since they had already funded two of his songs on his album. John Landis, the director, knew Michael wanted to turn into a monster and decided to pay for this himself. Showtime got to air the 14 minute video and 'the making of' documentary for the first time due to helping fund the music video for Michael. MTV heard about this however and did not want to lose Michael's video to Showtime so they paid $250,000 for exclusive rights to broadcast the video once Showtimes window was ended. The video won the Best Performance Video, Best Choreography and Viewers Choice at the first MTV Music Video Awards in 1984.



 The next video is 'Bad' which was released after Thriller had made Michael Jackson extremely famous. People were eager to see his new image.

The next video I will discuss is 'black or white.' There had been rumors of him bleaching his skin and this song really told the public of his opinion but portrayed him as a hypocrite because they believed it was due to him not wanted to be black. This is a very random video with images of Michael in a safarian desert with black Africans dancing around him. It was used to try and resurrect his career after these allegations about him had been put in place.