ScreenOrigami
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Mikky Dee;4303346 said:How is this video about money? How is it a quick edit to make cash? How?? Please don't call another member cringey. WHAT on Earth do you think TDCAU was actually about?? It was about a "delicate topic". It was made in response to the brutal treatment of Rodney King at the hands of police and the race riots that followed, in L.A. It expressed Michael's frustration at the treatment of HIS people in the USA, but also, all over the world - issues such as high crime rates and incarceration, ghettos, poverty, poor access to education, depressed neighbourhoods, violence, racism, prejudice, hate groups....the list goes on.
All of this. And on top of it, we should also consider that MJ was acting within the media framework that was available to him at the time. I would really like to know what some of his films would have looked like if he hadn’t to think about whether or not they would get airplay on MTV. The TDACU prison version and the Panther Dance were already taking it too far for US American tastes.