During the final dance routine for Smooth Criminal Michael always did a spin and a leg kick, but from 1993 onwards he stopped doing the spin and only did the leg kick. Wonder why
I think it has something to do with precision and stopping on time, if you watch his performance at MTV in 2001 with N'Sync you can see that the spin can take longer than expected and cause you to miss a beat.
same for the rehearsal footage in TIII hate how he took the spin out of the performance. The spin gives the performance an extra level of coolness. And on Bucharest 1996 he does the spin but doesn't do the leg kick.
Wow, great analysis. I love little details like this.So the structure of Beat it in History Tour is:
I just watched and compared some 1996 and 1997 shows, and turns out the video interlude has never change. In 1997 Johannesburg show (the very last show), the Human Nature pose (1:00:31) and the Thriller staring the camera scene (1:00:20) were both there.They also made some subtle changes to the video (with segments of his music videos and highlights of his career) that was played on the video walls right before the ‘Billie Jean’ performance during the HIStory Tour.
The video of the earlier HIStory concerts was longer and included shots that were cut from the later HIStory concerts.
For example, in the later HIStory concerts, towards the end of that video they cut his ‘Human Nature’ pose, but they also cut the ‘Thriller’ scene in which while hugging Ola Ray he turns to the camera smiling with these scary eyes.
Yeah. In fact, correct me if I am wrong, he wore it on his right hand on the Victory, Bad and Dangerous Tours. It was this way for 1996 leg of the HIStory Tour as well, but somewhere between Sydney (last seen on left hand) and Manila (first seen on right hand), he began to wear it on his right hand and never took it off. It's kind of strange he would remove his glove mid-performance if he wore it on his left, but kept it on when on his right. Oh wellWas he wearing the Billie Jean glove in right hand instead of left hand during Dangerous tour? I can't tell, but that would be a major change?!
They kept subtly changing the 'Remember The Time' video interlude throughout the entire HIStory Tour.I just watched and compared some 1996 and 1997 shows, and turns out the video interlude has never change. In 1997 Johannesburg show (the very last show), the Human Nature pose (1:00:31) and the Thriller staring the camera scene (1:00:20) were both there.
Am I misunderstanding something? Can you share a video and make a timestamp of where you see the difference?
Man, now I see it, thank you so much!They kept subtly changing the 'Remember The Time' video interlude throughout the entire HIStory Tour.
Could it be because he was wearing a ring on his other hand?During HIStory, I saw it on left hand, the hand which also held the . I found that odd because it was not the 'dancing' hand! I was hoping some long time fan knows the story behind the change.
It seems like it was prone to falling off. I don't think putting a glove over it would help.