The pictures are hilarious, aren't they guys? You can just
see the difference in quality.
Yeah, but Mike still rip some moves from different dancestyles. But he make them look different with adding his own little style-touch.
But Mike never copied any artists! Like you said, only as a child
Michael incorporates many different dance forms to create a totally original and distinct style all his own. Almost every great dancer in history though focuses usually on one particular, already pre-existent form and then they figure out a way to make that pariticular form distinct to them by the way they put the steps together. Most of these kids today either rip Michael off directly or simply engage in the popular dances of today, ending up as carbon copies of one another. They don't have an original style made up of how they put steps together, like Michael does.
It is extremely difficult to come up with a distinctive style of dance and only the greatest dancers in history have done so, but all off the back of already established forms, such as Astaire, Kelly and Davis Jr., their forte was in tap, ballat and jazz. Barishnikov and Nureyeve, ballet. But they all moved and brought their own way of putting steps together in a unique way. The steps themselves weren't new, it was how they put them together that was. Same with Michael. You don't see that today.
But really, Michael is a freak and these acts today shouldn't be compared to him, one, because it is insulting to Michael's level of talent to insinuate that these acts are even near his level and two, it's an unbearable burden for these acts to endure. They can never compare.
What people miss about Michael is how technically amazing he is as a dancer. If you compare him to people like Chris Brown, Usher, Omarion, Genuwine, Justin, etc... They just fall so far short in terms of form that, when you realize this, you also realize the absurdity of the comparison. They can't ever dance like Michael or as well because they simply don't have the ability. They don't have his in born speed, precisian, seemless connection of the steps, ease of step, and clean lines. That isn't something you can learn, it's something you must be born with. You can learn how to tap dance, or some jazz step or lock step, but what you can never learn is the things I mentioned above, all of what Michael has. Again, if you look back at those pictures, you'll see the difference. You take any still shot of Michael dancing, he is always perfectly positioned, always tight, he never has limbs thrown about in an uncontroled or useless manner, his lines are always clean, straight and fully extended, and that's all natural. He's a freak, like I said, and I mean that in terms of talent. And everyone keeps talking about how Michael got his moves from kids on the streets and James Brown, but most of Michael's steps are derived from jazz, people like Bob Fosse and Fred Astaire. And Astaire is the one dancer whom Michael's actual physical ability is most similar to, he is the dancer Michael most
moves like, grace, precisian, speed and a reliance on the upper torso as much as the lower body.
I won't even talk about how these people fall short of Michael vocally, that should be obvious.
Anyway though, these kids are cute. As long as nobody tries to give them credit for being original or in any way try to seriously compare them to Michael, lol.
