Michael Jackson stole his signature dance moves from a white man! Bob Fosse!

[ΣNΣMY]

Disgusting display of cultural appropriation

[ShoulderRoll]

Source?

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/20...ography-review

"Definitely. I think a good example is Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video, which we think of as the apex of early music-video style. Michael Jackson wanted Fosse to direct that. It didn’t happen, but you could see what the thinking was."

[hectari]

Its true, I knew about this a few years back, I remember watching Bob Fosse for our Theater and Film study class and some black kids was like that white dude trying to be like MJ.

MJ ripped that entire routine, step for step even the jazz hands and lean.

He should have at least credited Fosse openly, like he credit James Brown

[Teetotaler]

Smh dey stay stealing our culture.

Those culture vultures

[Hype job]

Its true, I knew about this a few years back, I remember watching Bob Fosse for our Theater and Film study class and some black kids was like that white dude trying to be like MJ.

MJ ripped that entire routine, step for step even the jazz hands and lean.

He should have at least credited Fosse openly, like he credit James Brown

Fosse is relatively unknown compared to the guys he credited, like Brown, Astaire, etc. He knew people would criticise him for ripping the routine so he stayed tight lipped about Fosse.

[ShoulderRoll]

He stayed tight lipped about Fosse yet it's public knowledge that he wanted Fosse to direct the Thriller video?

[Hype job]

He stayed tight lipped about Fosse yet it's public knowledge that he wanted Fosse to direct the Thriller video?

It's not public knowledge, whether he did or didn't want him to (your source was dubious).

He ripped this guys moves, clear as day, didn't give him the credit he deserved.

[ShoulderRoll]

It's not public knowledge, whether he did or didn't want him to (your source was dubious).

He ripped this guys moves, clear as day, didn't give him the credit he deserved.

Vanity Fair is dubious?

Here's Spike Lee talking about his documentary on the 25th Anniversary of the "Bad" album. Listen at the 3:44 mark:




"Michael did not just sit in his ass. He was out there...Bob Fosse. Gene Kelly. Fred Astaire. James Brown. Marvin Gaye. Stevie Wonder.

He was gathering, stirring in greats not just in music. Art. Photography. Dance. And taking all the things that great artists have done in the world and incorporating it into what he did."

[Monaco Slim]

Damn looks like he actually did rip him off

[Hype job]

Vanity Fair is dubious?

Here's Spike Lee talking about his documentary on the 25th Anniversary of the "Bad" album. Listen at the 3:44 mark:




"Michael did not just sit in his ass. He was out there...Bob Fosse. Gene Kelly. Fred Astaire. James Brown. Marvin Gaye. Stevie Wonder.

He was gathering, stirring in greats not just in music. Art. Photography. Dance. And taking all the things that great artists have done in the world and incorporating it into what he did."

That's cool but he should have credited him publicly imo.