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Originally posted by IMPACTNET.
There were no music videos that incorporated intricate choreography before Beat It. I'm not talking about live performances. Thriller had at least 4 minutes if dialogue before the music even began. Name me one music video that did that before Thriller? And Michael didn't base his career off the thief that was Elvis Presley. I don't even see anything of Elvis in Michael. James Brown and Jackie Wilson were his main inspirations.
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Beat It was not the first choreographed video
It came out in 1983, hunny.
That's why Thriller was the first epic music video. Do you know what an epic is? Thriller was not the first music video with a storyline. Pop cultured existed prior to the 80s.
So Michael Jackson doing those groin moves for decades was just a coincidence? And Elvis stated his influences multiple times. You really should do some reading because pop culture existed before the 1980s.
I'm proud you know about James Brown and Jackie Wilson, though.