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From : IAmOnlyLove
Added: Oct 28, 2009
Song: Black or White (Panther Version) Sung & Performed by: Michael Jackson. Song written by: Michael Jackson. Produced by: Michael Jackson. Album: "Dangerous" November 26, 1991. Music video directed by: John Landis. Song Record Label: Epic Records. Niceties by: http://www.youtube.com/IAmOnlyLove Synopsis! "Black or White" was the first single taken from Michael Jackson's Dangerous album, released in October 1991. The single is considered the biggest selling rock song of the 1990s. "Black or White" is a mix of hard rock, dance and rap. It is also considered one of Michael Jackson's most successful tracks, as well as arguably the best selling rock single ever, with more than 5 million copies sold worldwide. Written, composed, and arranged by Jackson with the rap lyrics by Bill Bottrell, it is a song that promotes racial unity. The song's introduction and main riff are performed by guitarist Slash and Bill Bottrell. The tracks main riff greatly resembles that of John Cougar Mellencamp's 1982 hit, "Hurts So Good". The song peaked at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart, as well as in 18 other countries. About Music Video! The music video for "Black or White" was first broadcast on MTV, BET, VH1, and FOX (giving them their highest Nielsen Ratings ever) on November 14, 1991. Along with Jackson, it featured Macaulay Culkin, Tess Harper, and George Wendt. It helped usher in surround sound and morphing as new technologies in music videos, the latter pioneered by Godley & Creme's "Cry" video in 1985 (the sequence begins with extra, Let Mon Lee, and features supermodel Tyra Banks). The video was directed by John Landis, who previously directed Thriller. The first few minutes of the video featured an extended version of the song's intro, in which a young kid (Macaulay Culkin) is playing loud music in his bedroom at night, and is yelled at by his enraged father (George Wendt), who demands he stop playing the music and go to bed. Culkin decides to forgo his father's request to go to sleep by setting up large speaker cabinets behind his father's reclining chair, donning leather gloves and sunglasses, and playing an extremely loud power chord on an electric guitar. The sound then shatters the house's windows and sends his father (seated in his chair) halfway around the world, where the actual song begins. The kid's mother (Tess Harper) declares that his father will be "very upset" upon his return. The song from the CD does not use Culkin's nor Wendt's voice; they are replaced by voice actors performing a similar intro. Wendt winds up in Africa, and Jackson begins to sing "Black or White", surrounded by various cultures scene-by-scene. A young Tyra Banks, just beginning her career as a supermodel, is seen dancing to the song in the ending of the video, as well as actress Cree Summer. Jackson's niece, Brandi Jackson, daughter of Jackie Jackson also makes a cameo appearance in the video. The video shows scenes in which Africans begin dancing like Jackson; so do, in sequence, Indonesians, American Indians, a woman from India and a set of Russians. Jackson walks through visual collages of fire (defiantly declaring "I ain't scared of no sheets; I ain't scared of nobody"), referring to KKK torch ceremonies before a mock rap scene shared with Culkin and other children. The group collectively states, "I'm not gonna spend my life being a color." At the end of the song, different people dance as they morph into one another (shown as "talking heads"), which is reminiscent of the earlier music video for the Godley & Creme song "Cry". This technique, known as morphing, had been previously used only in films such as Willow and Terminator 2. The morphing visual effects were created by Pacific Data Images.
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