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The Thriller Era

zinniabooklover said:
Since I was causing so much chaos on this thread yesterday (posting Bad era photos over here - as you do, lol) I might as well keep going. Yes, it's a picture thread but we are in T40 mode and are celebrating all things Thriller. So I wanna flag up this awesome interview I just read.

@Fuzball posted it over on the actual T40 thread but I wanna try to promote it as much as poss. It's AWESOME.

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Interview with John Bettis - BRICE NAJAR

John Bettis The name of John Bettis can’t be unknown to you if you are interested in Michael Jackson’s discography. Indeed, co-credited with Steve Porcaro on the song “Human Nature” as its lyricist, he knew how to leave his print on this legendary track. I never imagined I would have the...
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Thank you so much for this! I'm going to go read it now.

zinniabooklover said:
And a quote from the interview:

"Then, the Thriller album happened and I went: « Good God ! » I mean, there isn’t anything else like that. There’s the Thriller album and there’s everything else.
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Oh Michael 😍

zinniabooklover said:
It was global history all at once. I’ve had a lot of good experiences with a lot of great artists but I don‘t think anything could ever match what, first of all, Michael was like. I mean, I have only met whom I have met, but he’s certainly the most completely talented person that I’ve ever met. I’ve never seen anyone that could literally do EVERYTHING and do it well!
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😍 😍 😍

zinniabooklover said:
He really could – he was as complete a showman as we’ve ever had ... Nobody covered all the bases on a genius level but Michael Jackson. Nobody. Not even close."
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I am in love with all of this. can't wait to read the full thing!!

zinniabooklover said:
Maybe you all saw this already but I'm not taking any chances. I don't want anyone to miss this. T40!! Bring it on!!!!!
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yay!! T40!!

And to cross-post like the best of you, here is a Thriller era photo that demonstrates how ridiculously freakin' beautiful he was in every stage of his life. Good GOD this man. I'm in love, lust, and awe all at once lol.

https://imgur.com/1kVZF9p
 
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zinniabooklover said:
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Oh My God. My whole entire heart is melting out of my chest and leaking to the floor like magma (see what I'm doing here?)... Seriously... my heart races when I see him like this. I immediately feel like a 14 year old girl. Ugh.

I'm not going to get into this, because I feel like I've been a monster on this forum all day. But you could probably predict which of his features I want to FREAK OUT ABOUT right now. It is taking everything in me not to wax poetic for 500 words about his....ah, I need to not even start. Sigh.

Bless you. God bless you for this gif.
 
staywild23 said:
OH wowwwwww.... sometimes it's hard for me distinguish between late OTW/early Thriller. But God, he's gorgeous. What a smile! Also I love to watch him sing. I want just hours and hours of footage of watching him record. Sighhh 😍
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hmm, I think those are OTW, he is looking younger than Thriller Era, no?
 
Hiker said:
hmm, I think those are OTW, he is looking younger than Thriller Era, no?
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I was thinking that! But I've also seen some photos of MJ in the studio recording Bad when he looked very OTW in his style... it's hard to know. I'm not sure what footage these gifs are taken from. Therein lies the answer! lol
 
staywild23 said:
OH wowwwwww.... sometimes it's hard for me distinguish between late OTW/early Thriller. But God, he's gorgeous. What a smile! Also I love to watch him sing. I want just hours and hours of footage of watching him record. Sighhh 😍
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Apparently it's TGIM and / or Say Say Say sessions. And I think I saw that confirmed elsewhere on the board on another thread. But can't remember which one. Dunno if these images come from the film footage that Paul McCartney has. He had the sessions filmed, apparently. You'd be wanting to see that, wouldn't you?
 
zinniabooklover said:
Apparently it's TGIM and / or Say Say Say sessions.
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ooooohhhh!

zinniabooklover said:
And I think I saw that confirmed elsewhere on the board on another thread. But can't remember which one. Dunno if these images come from the film footage that Paul McCartney has. He had the sessions filmed, apparently.
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😳

zinniabooklover said:
You'd be wanting to see that, wouldn't you?
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I just started panting like a dog, so I think that's your answer 😛
 
Too tired to go and chase this down for confirmation. I think I've got this right. I posted these gifs before and then saw the stuff about PM film footage and I got very excited.

I wanna see that footage! I wanna see it NOW!!

Just realised, I might need to do a translation. I wrote:

You'd be wanting to see that, wouldn't you?

That wasn't directed specifically at you. I'm an honorary Irish person, that's how Irish people phrase things. It means *anyone* would be wanting to see that footage. Apologies if you're up on your Irish phraseology. Lots of peeps aren't.

I am very tired, lol.
 
Question

Would you still fall for him if he was bald because it looks like it is the hair that makes the difference for you women.
In fact I’m going to experiment and tape a curl on my forehead and see what happens when I set foot in a bar. I might just get lucky…
 
staywild23 said:
Oh please. You can't fool me. You're trying to destroy me and it's working lol.
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oh, I wish! No point in torturing you if I'm too tired to enjoy it. ML posted a similar photo over on Fave Pics and I realised, to my horror, haven't looked at this one in yonks. How can that happen? How can that be acceptable? It isn't. And here we are, lol.

staywild23 said:
Speaking of...
You did this a few days ago and I'm only now seeing it and I'm doubly ruined.
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I love this one and I'm always fascinated by the 'Monroe' detail on his jacket. It's a really cool detail.
 
filmandmusic said:
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Would you still fall for him if he was bald because it looks like it is the hair that makes the difference for you women.
In fact I’m going to experiment and tape a curl on my forehead and see what happens when I set foot in a bar. I might just get lucky…
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It's actually a good question, f&m. Some guys look great with a shaved head so if Michael was one of those guys it would be fine. But it doesn't work for everyone but I don't know what the difference is. Is it the shape of the head or what?

I know you're asking the question in a jokey way but it's a real thing, also. A person's hair is super relevant as to whether we see them as attractive or not.

But, yeah, you should def tape a random curl to your forehead, go out on the town, and see what happens, lol. I wanna be a fly on the wall when you do that. :ROFLMAO:

You might need to throw in some sharp dance moves, though! Just to be assured of getting the ladies' attention!
 
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filmandmusic said:
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Would you still fall for him if he was bald because it looks like it is the hair that makes the difference for you women.
In fact I’m going to experiment and tape a curl on my forehead and see what happens when I set foot in a bar. I might just get lucky…
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I want to know what happened to that experiment. Can you please (please please!) make a video of the whole experience! Or even better, can you wait till I get there so that I can watch the experiment live :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
When it comes to Michael, its obviously not just the hair, I bet we would be drooling over him even if he showed up with a shaved head.
 
Hiker said:
I want to know what happened to that experiment. Can you please (please please!) make a video of the whole experience! Or even better, can you wait till I get there so that I can watch the experiment live :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
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SO am wanting to see this! But, yeah, video evidence would do as a substitute. This experiment has to happen!
 
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