Smooth Criminal: I took dance for nine years. 3-2-1 Strike a pose!! I remember how excited I was when I finally made the dance troupe. (All the girls in dance troupe were sooooo cool, so I wanted to be THAT good!) This was back in the day of record players folks!! We would dance so hard in rehearsals that we'd knock the pin off the record! Anyway, for our first dance troupe competition we chose MJ's song "Smooth Criminal" as our song. When I was all decked out in my red sequined 3 piece suit--complete with hat & gloves--I thought I was a real criminal on the stage. :) We'd dance to other of MJ's songs that year, but that one holds the most weight.
World Premiere of Black & White video: In November 1991, I remember sitting in the living room of my parent's old house and waiting anxiously with my brother Tate for the world premiere of MJ's "Black & White" video. We didn't have cable television at the time, so it was pretty rare for us to get music videos on network t.v. We were pumped! My brother Tate was so excited that he had a "spaz" moment (like most 10 year olds have when they have too much energy)....and ran around the living room making his best attempt at MJ's dance moves. The problem was that my Mom had plugged up the space heater....do you see where this is going? In the midst of Tate's spastic dance break, he put his hands on top of the space heater and pushed off of it to get some air on one of his moves. BAD!!! That was the negative part of the night. I remember the video being amazing....and I loved the fact that there was some kind of storyline, with the use of other actors, and to be honest, I'd never seen a man walk through fire, or transform from being a black panther. Wow....nobody does it like MJ. RIP.
Gonna try to locate the pic of that red suit from dance troupe......
