1983 I was at a big dance club in NY one night when suddenly , the music stopped and the DJ comes on. He says he was just handed MJ’s new video and a screen rolls down from the ceiling. “Thriller” comes on and we all stood there with our mouths open like WTF? Everyone went nuts cheering after seeing it and he played the song again ...I’ll never forget it. The 80’s were a good time to be young..
@Jay Rock Jinx Me neither. He was definitely a weirdo but he was Michael Jackson. I play guitar because of Eddie van Halen playing the solo in the video beat it. For some reason that stuck with me lol
Let me put it this way... They're were artists, performers, entertainers,stars, superstars, megastars, legends,G.O.A.Ts and then there was Michael Jackson above all of them.🙏
Don't think we'll ever either. And even if we do they'll probably be over hyped like some of the big stars today who couldn't fill a quarter of MJ's shoes when it comes to talent and performance.
Young people today have no clue how big Michael was. He had white boys wearing red pleather pants & moonwalking in malls all over the world. This will never happen again.
@@vperkv6554 Go watch Michael Jackson Womanizer on TH-cam. Michael was sooo much of a Weirdo that the Tabloids could say ANYTHING about him and People would believe it SMH But Michael wasn't a Pedophile...No proven victims. He liked Women.
Best one was when the Black Or White video premiered with the panther dance extended clip afterwards, and everyone was completely caught off guard and had mixed feelings about it lmao! He was like a superhero to me as a child.
I remember it was a Wednesday night, because my church had meetings on that night. My brother and I wanted to get home in time to see it. There was also WWF battle royale that night and a news report of that girl that fell down the well. Weird the things you remember!
Yeah, exactly. I was lucky enough to have received both Thriller and Moonwalker at an early age, and was able to see his premieres of "Black and White" and "Remember the time", which yeah, a lot of people were talking about the next day at school and even friends and family elsewhere. Michael Jackson was a household name for a lot of people , just like the simpsons as far as awareness. If you watch moonwalker, you can see the footage of how people gathered and the women who cried when he came on stage or into view. It was a wild time.
@Galen Joyce it was literally on the nightly news channel. Not MTV or VH1 it was like NBC news 😀🤯 video was crazy too! I remember going to school and debating that MJ could really turn into liquid gold dust lol😂
The “Making Michael Jackson’s Thriller” documentary was Landis’ partner and editor’s idea. They needed $500K to make Thriller (an outrageous cost in those days) and MJ’s label refused to pay for it. So Landis’ editor asked “what if we cook up this 45 minute ‘making of’ documentary, plus the 15-minute video, and sell it back to the networks?” The new Showtime network paid $250K for the right to show it first exclusively. Then MTV came around and offered $250K to show it second to a much wider audience... In short, the video literally paid for itself. 👀
I saw it in Chicago on a video program on our NBC affiliated WMAQ called Friday Night Videos. It came on at Midnight and my Mom, Granny and I Watched. That Monday in my school was a whole notha situation. Lol.
So this was all the end of 1983...when did the making of premier on Showtime and then MTV? And at what point did the "music home video" come out? Wasn't that all in 1983 as well?
Rogers Nelson imo was a better multifaceted musician, but it really didn't matter that Joseph didn't play a musical instrument for his hot house of warble & sway earnned him the greatest singular entertainer just nipping the great Memphis Flash⚡️
I have ALWAYS been SO disappointed that there was not a full proper "short promotional film" for the title track to "HIStory". The teaser trailer was probably the greatest "short promotional film" he ever did to be honest though...
Thanks for actually talking about the art instead of the bullshit. Rick Baker is an absolute class act not to mention incredibly talented and prolific.
Michael Jackson he is really the GOAT. I mean he had people fainting out in his concerts, the choreography that he made for every tour and show was truly unbelievable. He had the voice, the dance and the imagination to become the greatest artist and entertainment of all time
Michael was the ultimate talent..there is simply no words for him but unique and undoubtedly the biggest superstar the world has ever seen. I dont think no one can dispute that.
I'm glad Joe had Rick on, I love hearing these types of stories from those who were there and worked with MJ 1 on 1. There's a great book that highlights the making of Thriller and shows an up close look at Ricks work and the process of the character designs and whatnot. Stuff like Thriller just doesn't happen anymore, in more ways than one. #MJInnocent
ᴄornboy I totally agree! It’s nice to see a guest that the majority of people know who they are . Most of joes guests are either UFC or people nobody’s ever heard of ffs
@@cornboy7587 thanks for mentioning the book, as a huge mj fan and fan of how movies are made, I've GOT to get that book! I have the book... "styling the king"? I think it might be called maybe? It was put together by his longtime costumer/stylist Michael Bush andddd... forgot the other man's name... it's been so long since I looked theough that book and it's packed in storage i believe. But it was FILLED with sketches and photos of the outfits they had made, on stage and off, for Michael from the early 80s until his death (they actually designed the outfit and dressed Michael for his FINAL dressing that he was laid to rest in for eternity). Such a great and infromative photo book. I suggest you look into that one n I'll check out that thriller book thank you!
Thriller came out in 82 I was 4. I can remember the moment I was scared watching the video. Then I realized that mom was dancing with her friends in the background. So I stood to my feet and been dancing to MJ ever since that day
Same here, there were probably 8-10 of us setting around the TV watching "Thriller" and just being blown away! There will never b another like him. Rip MJ🙏
Michael Jackson was called a worldwide superstar for a reason. I’ve always said Michael Jackson is something people 100 years from now will be able to enjoy.
Everyone in the comments is talking about Michael Jackson and nobody realizes the man in the video is a legend himself: 7-times Academy Award winner Rick Baker. For those who don't know, winning 7 Oscars is quite the record - and he was actually nominated 10 times. This is the man who revolutionized special effects with the transformation scene in "An American Werewolf in London" - nobody had done anything like it before and only a few (like Rob Bottin on "The Thing") managed to equal it since.
I was 10 and to this day I've never seen anything bigger pop culture wise than when Thriller came out. That thing played for years. Kids wearing the red jacket moon walking. Heck my friend in school even got a perm and started putting jerrycurl in his hair... He's white. Lol
Sometimes I watch his songs live during the bad tour and I cant even process he was real... the amount of energy, the dance moves, the notes he hits but overall is the way he loses himself in the moment, you can see him transform himself from this sickly shy guy to unreal alien talent within seconds.. its crazy
I loved "thriller" when I was a kid...I used to rent the vhs cassette of it all the time from the video store...Micheal Jackson was so huge when I was young. I remember lots of my classmates has the red leather jacket with all the zippers on it and I wanted one so bad..lol
Only short movio to ever scare me and still creepy til this day! If you happen to get a chance to see in theaters I highly recommend you go! The werewolf transformation was even more terrifying in theaters. MJ will always be the GOAT for this. RIP MJ 🌟🌹❤️
I saw it as a kid too, my older sister was super excited for the premiere (I had to join her), I loved the song so much but my goodness I was scared af, even after the premiere anytime the song played I'd plug my ears and make sounds just to avoid the beginning and the end laugh. Wheeeww Thriller had me shook as a kid lmao.
That's awesome. I'm glad that a new generation is discovering his work. I'm also sorry in advance for the disgusting comments you'll get by those who are mentally unhinged and just want to spread hatred. They'll never win.
It doesn't matter what yous think his music was great the man's dead and it was never proven he did any of those things only allegedly did every cones out strongly changing their minds 10 yes after his passing get real dicks! I literally live 10 mins from his childhood home so do you think I care about anything yous think? 😂😂😂 it's not like epstien who we know did all that with the Clintons etc.. 😂😂😂 freaking morons
@Scott Fraser again proof!!! Actually see him committed it never happen I don't care about allegations the truth and proof that's it and again was he weird yes he was but I'm not judging his character I'm saying his music was great period now R Kelley now he did it there's evidence on him
MIchael was a Phenomenon. He LITERALLY TOOK the entire worlds consciousness. They literally was no escaping and people today don't really understand the magnitude of the tidalwave that was MIchael. When he did the moonwalk on MOTOWN25 and then dropped Thriller. It was like nothing you could imagine. I was like 12 yrs old and at the roller skating rink, the musics playing and then out of nowhere they lowed the lights and two projection screens, one at each end of the rink came down and all you saw was this rush of everyone to the ends of the rink to get a great view of the video. You just can't show in words the excitement Michael caused. NONE of todays entertainers ever even half of what was the Michael Mania. Cardi B, Lil Wayne, Eminem, Back Street Boys.. you name it.. NONE of them are at Michaels level..Meeting Kings, Queens, Presidents. It may be another 100 yrs before the world ever sees a Phenomenon like that.
This is a fucking fascinating episode, but his voice is the only thing I can’t get with. Why’s he whispering half the time like he’s trying to fuck Joe Rogan?
This reminds me: My high school art teacher was so enthralled and impressed with the Thriller video that he showed it to our class one afternoon. A distinct memory from late 1983 for me. You could tell that Jackson, Landis and Baker were so big on classic monster movies when they were growing up ... and they poured that shared fondness into the music video.
Sure, cause its normal that 90 of all your kids friends "that you even have children as friends is awkward" but 90% came out and told on him during the 90s AND the 2000s.
@@LuckyFlesh who are "we"?.. There's a lot more people believing he did it than not so who exactly are "we"? If you google you can find that at least 6 people accused him so my counter question to you is, "how many did not accuse him"? And how many boys were actually hanging with a grown up man?
@@LuckyFlesh hell it isn't, you call me a liar and if you want proof you use the same tools you used to find him not guilty and try change my mind because it seems important. you got 6 kids mentioning it, dating back to 79. If your skull can't comprehend that information i just cant help you.. youre saying Michael was a billionaire in 79 and people tried to get his money? His own sister was suspicious of him, than you got the psychological part of it where there were rumour of abuse by his dad, that he always wanted to be a boy, that he kept brining small kids to his room and sleep with them, but no.. You need more proof, how about the fact that Michael is the only one that people got upset about? R Kelly? Weinstein?. People accepted that the victims were telling the truth, why? Because r kelly and Cosby weren't sleeping with the same gender or the fact that the victims were white boys. that's where the black community draw the lines as if the white community would somehow care that the victims where white or that they would laugh at black people as if they thelsemves dont have guys like Jeffrey dahmer. I know you're too young to know this guy. Michael was not considered black since the 90s, the guy wanted to be white and that had nothing to do with why people liked him, white, black, the guy was amazing and king of pop regardless of color... Michael is the only case where black people have gotten offended, let that sink in for a while. The only case where so many disagreed yet you or as you called it "we" are a minority" that think so. Now just to put away all accusations, im black myself and i dont take say things if i don't true believe it, if i didn't use information that's more likely to be true than not. No but of course all these people that haven't even met plus their parents just decide between different decades to call him out on child molestation.
Loved listening to Rick talk about the art of an iconic piece of history. Thriller in all its brilliance has never been surpassed. Michael was the best.
I remember that time and waited for the video with everyone else.I was not disappointed.It was epic and everyone at school talked about it that whole week.
@Khabib cherrypicking Weight bully can you prove that? Or are you going off a completely biased documentry told on it from the point of view of two liars😂 maybe go check the debunk video.
@@seandamenacee4767First I stated that the reason most people recently think MJ is a peado is because of the HBO documentary done on him by the two supposed victims. It is highly biased. There is a debunk picking apart all the statements the two guys make on it. Second I made a joke based on what they both said on the documentary that he would stare at their butt holes. Sorry it flew over your head.
I was a kid who got to stay up late to watch that world premiere of Thriller. I got the album for Christmas that year. There will never be anything like "Thriller," just like there will never be another Rick Baker or another Michael Jackson.
ACMJ 2 If you still believe that you have not done enough research. Those people that sued him either felt they needed the money that bad or were plain greedy people. Micheal Jackson did not have the best childhood and was always a kid at heart.
Rick Baker and MJ are legends. Thriller is forever a legendary video that all music videos are compared to. I saw it as a baby, essentially, and was blown away. Everytime it's on, I stop and watch.
Thriller literally broke racial barriers, MTV realized they HAD to show more black artists when Thriller hit, along with Beat it and Billie Jean, it also revolutionized Music Videos, and made the Thriller album the greatest selling album, which led to his historic 8 Grammy wins, and then he became the king of pop
I doubt he said, "Little Michael Jackson." Jackson was the biggest star in the world at the time. Playing Mike like he was gone from the scene for awhile.
Michael Jackson helped compose the music for sonic the hedgehog 3 Since it was released after he was accused of child molestation, sega disavowed his involvement but still used his work
The Thriller video was my first exposure to horror movies. I watched the video when I was 5 years old and it scared me so much I had trouble sleeping after I saw it. The part that scared me the most believe it or not was not the werewolf scene it was the part where the zombie came out of the manhole cover and there was this green light reflecting off his face. That haunted my dreams for about a week that was a creepy looking zombie.
Great interview. Its good to hear talented and famous people just talking about stuff, things that are important and amusing to them, rather than a stilted conversation where they're trying to sell something.
I was pregnant so had the best excuse to stay home and wait to see the first viewing on MTV. Loved it and watched it over and over. Even when my kid was older watching it with me.
His talent as a singer and dancer was something else. I watched him on TV as a kid and his physical transformation over the years was a sad thing. His death and the reasons behind it were negligence on Michael and his doctor.
That zombie dance was so cool. I remember watching it as a kid and, strangely, being envious of them for being able to dance like that! I say strangely because I was never into dancing and never wanted to dance, (and still don't!), but I was mesmerized by it and stood in front of the TV trying to copy the moves!
I remember it like it was yesterday it both scared and excited me as a nine year old girl in Northern Ireland, only two families in my estate were allowed to watch it ( we felt so cool) went on to trying to teach all the dance moves to the kids with the not so cool parents 😍
Michaels werewolf epic! The whole video is epic! Saw it as a tiny kid and I swear it set the course for the rest of my life! Thank you for your contributions good sir.
Still one of the greatest albums ever made PERIOD. Other than Michael Jackson and all of his super talent and amazing capabilities something so slept on imo is Quincy Jones brillian and beautiful production. Wit no Quincy, there would be no Thriller
@@kaafaa5944 Billie Jean demo, wanna be startin somethin demo, girl is mine demo, all the same if not better than the album version and created by Michael, yet Quincy gets all the credit 🤔
@@user-bl1pw2th4l Quincy was a major part of MJs golden era (Off The Wall, Thriller, Bad) and MJ himself was more than happy to give QJ his due props..... No need to get butt-hurt over it.
I have very little memories from my childhood but I remember like it was yesterday sitting in the basement of my parents house eating a giant Hershey's kiss mesmorized watching the debut of that video on MTV.
Thriller is one of my all time favourite videos, not just music video, but video PERIOD. And that zombie dance scene, my all time favourite of dance scenes; also, gotta love the way Michael turns around and now he's a zombie, it was the perfect look.
I love Michael Jackson. The only artist I can put on and everyone from my 3 year old nephew to my 88 year old grandma will have a good time.
True! Just play any MJ tune and people of all race, age, gender, background and culture will bop to it. ❤️
Exactly 💯 %👍👍
1983 I was at a big dance club in NY one night when suddenly , the music stopped and the DJ comes on. He says he was just handed MJ’s new video and a screen rolls down from the ceiling. “Thriller” comes on and we all stood there with our mouths open like WTF? Everyone went nuts cheering after seeing it and he played the song again ...I’ll never forget it. The 80’s were a good time to be young..
That sounds so nostalgic
Oh I would've loved to see/experience something like that!
biggest artist ever, and he did that for all of the 80s, 90s, 70s, in 2009 was about to launch the biggest tour
That sounds insane.
WOW!! 😮😂❤
My WHOLE family sat around a big screen tv that weighed probably 500 pounds and we watched thriller. It was that big of a deal then
@Jay Rock Jinx Michael Jackson was NOT a child molester😕 The dude made Thriller!!! Nuff said.
The 80s were a magical time.
We had the Thriller vhs cassette that had the video plus the making of...like an hour long.
@Jay Rock Jinx Me neither. He was definitely a weirdo but he was Michael Jackson. I play guitar because of Eddie van Halen playing the solo in the video beat it. For some reason that stuck with me lol
I remember that night vividly, was like a movie premiere. Still the greatest music video of all time.
There is Michael Jackson and then there is everyone else......
right on Damo!
There are superstars and then there’s Michael Jackson.
Let me put it this way...
They're were artists, performers, entertainers,stars, superstars, megastars, legends,G.O.A.Ts and then there was Michael Jackson above all of them.🙏
@@Annsu2017 Amen.
It's like the NBA.There's Michael Jordan and then there,s the rest of them !
Michael Jackson was ALL the CRAZ back then. I have yet to see another star since him that was big as him.
I aspire to get a slither of his music genius one day
FACTS.
I was. Biggest global star of the 80s. No one comes close.
@J Crash 1975
Don't think we'll ever either. And even if we do they'll probably be over hyped like some of the big stars today who couldn't fill a quarter of MJ's shoes when it comes to talent and performance.
The ‘80’s really was the most amazing decade to have grown up in.
I prefer the 1690s but we all have our decades
I wasn't even born in the 80s but I love it so much
90s
90s
I couldn't agree more.
Young people today have no clue how big Michael was. He had white boys wearing red pleather pants & moonwalking in malls all over the world. This will never happen again.
@@vperkv6554 how u know ?
@@kaafaa5944 How you know he isn't?
feminising boys
so if i dont know, and u don't its mean not guilty, just rumor.#next
@@vperkv6554 Go watch Michael Jackson Womanizer on TH-cam. Michael was sooo much of a Weirdo that the Tabloids could say ANYTHING about him and People would believe it SMH But Michael wasn't a Pedophile...No proven victims. He liked Women.
I remember running home to catch the premiere of the Bad video. Micheal Jackson releases were Events!
Best one was when the Black Or White video premiered with the panther dance extended clip afterwards, and everyone was completely caught off guard and had mixed feelings about it lmao! He was like a superhero to me as a child.
Never heard bad until I heard xxxtentacion's bad vibez forever
I remember it was a Wednesday night, because my church had meetings on that night. My brother and I wanted to get home in time to see it. There was also WWF battle royale that night and a news report of that girl that fell down the well. Weird the things you remember!
Yeah, exactly. I was lucky enough to have received both Thriller and Moonwalker at an early age, and was able to see his premieres of "Black and White" and "Remember the time", which yeah, a lot of people were talking about the next day at school and even friends and family elsewhere. Michael Jackson was a household name for a lot of people , just like the simpsons as far as awareness. If you watch moonwalker, you can see the footage of how people gathered and the women who cried when he came on stage or into view. It was a wild time.
All of MJs videos were world premieres. "Remember The Time" debuted on the local evening news.
@Galen Joyce it was literally on the nightly news channel. Not MTV or VH1 it was like NBC news 😀🤯 video was crazy too! I remember going to school and debating that MJ could really turn into liquid gold dust lol😂
I remember those days fondly
Planet Jigobot TV he did that on Remember The Time, not Black Or White. When I was a kid I kinda thought he could really turn into a panther.
Bad video
MANGO ZOO you’re a bad video
jackson was a pure genius, way ahead of time.. the thriller cassette was my first album back in the early 80's. every song on the album are classics.
@Lauren BIG MAMA Doughty Human nature & pyt are my favs.
No I think he was right on time…
The best selling album of all time
The “Making Michael Jackson’s Thriller” documentary was Landis’ partner and editor’s idea. They needed $500K to make Thriller (an outrageous cost in those days) and MJ’s label refused to pay for it. So Landis’ editor asked “what if we cook up this 45 minute ‘making of’ documentary, plus the 15-minute video, and sell it back to the networks?”
The new Showtime network paid $250K for the right to show it first exclusively. Then MTV came around and offered $250K to show it second to a much wider audience...
In short, the video literally paid for itself. 👀
I saw it in Chicago on a video program on our NBC affiliated WMAQ called Friday Night Videos. It came on at Midnight and my Mom, Granny and I Watched. That Monday in my school was a whole notha situation. Lol.
So this was all the end of 1983...when did the making of premier on Showtime and then MTV? And at what point did the "music home video" come out? Wasn't that all in 1983 as well?
I saw it on the big screen before the main feature
The world was not ready for Michael.He was the most perfect dancer,perfect singer,perfect entertainer.
Perfect creep
lol please.
Rogers Nelson imo was a better multifaceted musician, but it really didn't matter that Joseph didn't play a musical instrument for his hot house of warble & sway earnned him the greatest singular entertainer just nipping the great Memphis Flash⚡️
R.I.P. Michael. The “HIStory” album is his masterpiece.
I have ALWAYS been SO disappointed that there was not a full proper "short promotional film" for the title track to "HIStory". The teaser trailer was probably the greatest "short promotional film" he ever did to be honest though...
The song 2 Bad is incredible. It's my favorite track on the History album.
Thriller is by far his best record.
@@bazookajoe6133 Off The Wall
If you grew up in th 80s thank God almighty that we grew up in such an innovative and original artistic era.
JL agree ✊🏼 how much fun were the 80s? ✌🏼❤️
The last great decade for that stuff for music.
Thriller is the greatest music video of all-time
xboyindahouse nah man. Cattle Decapitation - forced gender reassignment is clearly the best.
@@myquest666420 nah man. Without You by Mark Gormley is the best without a shadow of a doubt.
ᴄornboy lol I was just hoping someone would read the comment and look up the video for that song.
Smooth Criminal is even better in my opinion
mike west fml
Thanks for actually talking about the art instead of the bullshit. Rick Baker is an absolute class act not to mention incredibly talented and prolific.
Paul Rizzo Yeah ignore the abusing little cute boys for decades part..he was such a good dancer though
@@Sheepwillbesheep Nice try.
Michael Jackson was on another level and Thriller is still the greatest music video ever made. What a talent!
#MJINNOCENT
billie jean is better
Smooth Criminal is the best music video ever made.
Definitely thriller.
Michael Jackson he is really the GOAT. I mean he had people fainting out in his concerts, the choreography that he made for every tour and show was truly unbelievable. He had the voice, the dance and the imagination to become the greatest artist and entertainment of all time
lol stop it, he is so fake and overrated
Michael was the ultimate talent..there is simply no words for him but unique and undoubtedly the biggest superstar the world has ever seen. I dont think no one can dispute that.
Michael Jackson: The Greatest Singer & Entertainer of ALL TIME. I love him & I miss him. Long live the legend!
I'm glad Joe had Rick on, I love hearing these types of stories from those who were there and worked with MJ 1 on 1. There's a great book that highlights the making of Thriller and shows an up close look at Ricks work and the process of the character designs and whatnot. Stuff like Thriller just doesn't happen anymore, in more ways than one.
#MJInnocent
ᴄornboy I totally agree! It’s nice to see a guest that the majority of people know who they are .
Most of joes guests are either UFC or people nobody’s ever heard of ffs
@Darren Weatherall Michael Jackson: The Making Of Thriller: 4 Days/1983. You can get it on Amazon for $25-$30. I would highly recommend it. :)
@@cornboy7587 thanks for mentioning the book, as a huge mj fan and fan of how movies are made, I've GOT to get that book! I have the book... "styling the king"? I think it might be called maybe? It was put together by his longtime costumer/stylist Michael Bush andddd... forgot the other man's name... it's been so long since I looked theough that book and it's packed in storage i believe. But it was FILLED with sketches and photos of the outfits they had made, on stage and off, for Michael from the early 80s until his death (they actually designed the outfit and dressed Michael for his FINAL dressing that he was laid to rest in for eternity). Such a great and infromative photo book. I suggest you look into that one n I'll check out that thriller book thank you!
Rick Baker. The greatest makeup artist in the history of Hollywood.
He made Harry of "Harry and The Hendersons"... that's all you need to know.
kawasaki whip two his work looks even BETTER now that cgi has become routine.
Thriller came out in 82 I was 4. I can remember the moment I was scared watching the video. Then I realized that mom was dancing with her friends in the background. So I stood to my feet and been dancing to MJ ever since that day
@@healer246 imagine j swartz busting you upside your forehead with a bottle face to face. 🤕
niesha patterson on mamas
When I was a kid I used to watch the Making of Thriller just about everyday on VHS...
I rented it and watched it over and over.
I still have that VHS tape lol
I watched it till the tape got swallowed inside the VHS machine!
Me too
ME TOOOOOOOO!!! I used to fall asleep to it!🤣🤣🤣
I am so psyched that Joe got Rick Baker on. This man is a living legend.
joe is a slanderer of mj too
I was in 4th grade when Thriller came out, our P.E. instructor recorded it and played for each gym class ,it was that big.
most of his songs were that big
@@AC-mp7cx you probably a little kid bruh all of his songs are good of course but Thriller was way bigger and it’s facts
He was 'Workin', Day and Night".
I knew I wasn’t the only one who caught that, one of my favorite songs off that album
And just enjoy yourseeeelllffffffff
Yeah I caught that too!😂
I see what you did there
When the world is on your shoulders
He's a legend just with that statement "I was one of the zombies coming out of the grave in the thriller video" every 40 year old women's panties drop
40? I would say older
@@stovecleaner8146 I'm saying at that time you know back then
Jon Rivere Go look up his credentials, he was a living legend even if he never did the Thriller video.
Funny Michael Moves th-cam.com/video/jXAxEEAgOcY/w-d-xo.html
All panties drop
*WHEN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR IS CLOSE AT HAND*
Same here, there were probably 8-10 of us setting around the TV watching "Thriller" and just being blown away! There will never b another like him. Rip MJ🙏
Worldwide best selling album of all time 👊🏼
Love your display picture #speeddemon
Khabib cherrypicking Weight bully #wasntapedophile
@Khabib cherrypicking Weight bully Quit liking your own comments you waste of space
Khabib cherrypicking Weight bully #neverwasapedophile
Molest Jacksson
Michael Jackson was called a worldwide superstar for a reason. I’ve always said Michael Jackson is something people 100 years from now will be able to enjoy.
He was the greatest entertainer ever. Never be another, no one can compare.
💯❤️🔥
Correction his production team were the greatest entertainers.
ELVIS
Everyone in the comments is talking about Michael Jackson and nobody realizes the man in the video is a legend himself: 7-times Academy Award winner Rick Baker. For those who don't know, winning 7 Oscars is quite the record - and he was actually nominated 10 times. This is the man who revolutionized special effects with the transformation scene in "An American Werewolf in London" - nobody had done anything like it before and only a few (like Rob Bottin on "The Thing") managed to equal it since.
I will never forget when he first performed the Moonwalk. People were BLOWN AWAY! It was truly epic 🌠
I like it when people talk about his artistic skills and abilities.
I was 10 and to this day I've never seen anything bigger pop culture wise than when Thriller came out. That thing played for years. Kids wearing the red jacket moon walking. Heck my friend in school even got a perm and started putting jerrycurl in his hair...
He's white. Lol
I mean there have been just as big things since then
Sometimes I watch his songs live during the bad tour and I cant even process he was real... the amount of energy, the dance moves, the notes he hits but overall is the way he loses himself in the moment, you can see him transform himself from this sickly shy guy to unreal alien talent within seconds.. its crazy
He was truly blessed with talent. His live performances are like no other.
That moment when Mike turns into a Zombie and that bassline finally hits....🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I loved "thriller" when I was a kid...I used to rent the vhs cassette of it all the time from the video store...Micheal Jackson was so huge when I was young. I remember lots of my classmates has the red leather jacket with all the zippers on it and I wanted one so bad..lol
funny he's 4th most google human in the world right now 11 yrs after death,No one can come to his level
Who is going straight to Thriller right after this🙋🏻♂️🙋🏻♂️🙋🏻♂️🙋🏻♂️🙋🏻♂️
No
I’ll save you the trip: th-cam.com/video/dQw4w9WgXcQ/w-d-xo.html
@@TWBB87 lol
No one
Not me...that "short film" still scares the ish out of me.
The whole interview could have been about the making of thriller and I would be just as interested
Only short movio to ever scare me and still creepy til this day! If you happen to get a chance to see in theaters I highly recommend you go! The werewolf transformation was even more terrifying in theaters. MJ will always be the GOAT for this.
RIP MJ 🌟🌹❤️
The first time I saw this was at 11 years old, I was terrified 😂
I use to cry but I had to watch lol
I saw it as a kid too, my older sister was super excited for the premiere (I had to join her), I loved the song so much but my goodness I was scared af, even after the premiere anytime the song played I'd plug my ears and make sounds just to avoid the beginning and the end laugh. Wheeeww Thriller had me shook as a kid lmao.
Still love watching Michael Jackson! His dancing is just magic!
My kids are 5 and 6 and they love thriller it's a freaking masterpiece and never outdated straight classic!
That's awesome. I'm glad that a new generation is discovering his work.
I'm also sorry in advance for the disgusting comments you'll get by those who are mentally unhinged and just want to spread hatred. They'll never win.
Yeah definitely introduce you kids to Michael Jackson
It doesn't matter what yous think his music was great the man's dead and it was never proven he did any of those things only allegedly did every cones out strongly changing their minds 10 yes after his passing get real dicks! I literally live 10 mins from his childhood home so do you think I care about anything yous think? 😂😂😂 it's not like epstien who we know did all that with the Clintons etc.. 😂😂😂 freaking morons
@Scott Fraser again proof!!! Actually see him committed it never happen I don't care about allegations the truth and proof that's it and again was he weird yes he was but I'm not judging his character I'm saying his music was great period now R Kelley now he did it there's evidence on him
@Scott Fraser sounds like you know way to much and know all the tricks to getting kids in your house 😂😂😂 sounds like experience talking to me 😂😂😂😆😆
MIchael was a Phenomenon. He LITERALLY TOOK the entire worlds consciousness. They literally was no escaping and people today don't really understand the magnitude of the tidalwave that was MIchael. When he did the moonwalk on MOTOWN25 and then dropped Thriller. It was like nothing you could imagine. I was like 12 yrs old and at the roller skating rink, the musics playing and then out of nowhere they lowed the lights and two projection screens, one at each end of the rink came down and all you saw was this rush of everyone to the ends of the rink to get a great view of the video. You just can't show in words the excitement Michael caused. NONE of todays entertainers ever even half of what was the Michael Mania. Cardi B, Lil Wayne, Eminem, Back Street Boys.. you name it.. NONE of them are at Michaels level..Meeting Kings, Queens, Presidents. It may be another 100 yrs before the world ever sees a Phenomenon like that.
Even though I am not into ASMR Mr. Baker has a great voice for it.
Rick Baker is a legend. His gorilla designs are amazingly realistic.
This guy as an all time JRE voice. Such a great podcast.
This is a fucking fascinating episode, but his voice is the only thing I can’t get with. Why’s he whispering half the time like he’s trying to fuck Joe Rogan?
This reminds me: My high school art teacher was so enthralled and impressed with the Thriller video that he showed it to our class one afternoon. A distinct memory from late 1983 for me. You could tell that Jackson, Landis and Baker were so big on classic monster movies when they were growing up ... and they poured that shared fondness into the music video.
Would love to hear Joe do a new podcast on Leaving Neverland now that it’s found out to be full of proven bs
Sure, cause its normal that 90 of all your kids friends "that you even have children as friends is awkward" but 90% came out and told on him during the 90s AND the 2000s.
@@kaliberoh955 " but 90% came out and told on him during the 90s AND the 2000s."
Provide PROOF of this absurd claim.
...we're waiting.
@@LuckyFlesh who are "we"?.. There's a lot more people believing he did it than not so who exactly are "we"? If you google you can find that at least 6 people accused him so my counter question to you is, "how many did not accuse him"? And how many boys were actually hanging with a grown up man?
@@kaliberoh955 if I Google?
The burden of proof is on the claimant.
Where's your proof?
...still waiting.
Edit: p.s. PROOF, not accusations.
@@LuckyFlesh hell it isn't, you call me a liar and if you want proof you use the same tools you used to find him not guilty and try change my mind because it seems important. you got 6 kids mentioning it, dating back to 79. If your skull can't comprehend that information i just cant help you.. youre saying Michael was a billionaire in 79 and people tried to get his money? His own sister was suspicious of him, than you got the psychological part of it where there were rumour of abuse by his dad, that he always wanted to be a boy, that he kept brining small kids to his room and sleep with them, but no.. You need more proof, how about the fact that Michael is the only one that people got upset about? R Kelly? Weinstein?. People accepted that the victims were telling the truth, why? Because r kelly and Cosby weren't sleeping with the same gender or the fact that the victims were white boys. that's where the black community draw the lines as if the white community would somehow care that the victims where white or that they would laugh at black people as if they thelsemves dont have guys like Jeffrey dahmer. I know you're too young to know this guy. Michael was not considered black since the 90s, the guy wanted to be white and that had nothing to do with why people liked him, white, black, the guy was amazing and king of pop regardless of color... Michael is the only case where black people have gotten offended, let that sink in for a while. The only case where so many disagreed yet you or as you called it "we" are a minority" that think so. Now just to put away all accusations, im black myself and i dont take say things if i don't true believe it, if i didn't use information that's more likely to be true than not. No but of course all these people that haven't even met plus their parents just decide between different decades to call him out on child molestation.
Did he seriously just say "I was working day and night?" Lol!
yep. It's called cocaine, he is not lying. Remember it was the 80's when this was created. :)
MsBlueRyan ‘working day and night’ is the title of one of the songs in the thriller album... 😂
It was on Off The Wall, the album before Thriller, but yes, that's what I was pointing out. 😁
Loved listening to Rick talk about the art of an iconic piece of history. Thriller in all its brilliance has never been surpassed. Michael was the best.
michael's other albums are better
Michael was and always will be on another level. 80s was Jackson hysteria.
Thriller was our first VHS rental. That and Popeye with Robin Williams. RIP to Michael and Robin.
Surprised Joe didn't mention chemical castration
Probably because Rick Baker actually knew MJ professionally and never had a sour word to say about him.
@@jacobc.8915 You say that like Joe Rogan is renowned for his tact.
@@victorkong82 Fair point lol
Rogan is spreading rumors
It's bullshit anyway. Any singer would tell you that MJ was certainly not a castrato
I remember that time and waited for the video with everyone else.I was not disappointed.It was epic and everyone at school talked about it that whole week.
One of the greatest humans to ever walk the Earth, his music was only second to his philanthropy and work with human rights
Khabib cherrypicking Weight bully actually Michael Jackson wasn’t a pedophile or a creep
@Khabib cherrypicking Weight bully can you prove that? Or are you going off a completely biased documentry told on it from the point of view of two liars😂 maybe go check the debunk video.
@Khabib cherrypicking Weight bully Get a life, you fucking freak.
Pinball bruh wtf are u talking about
@@seandamenacee4767First I stated that the reason most people recently think MJ is a peado is because of the HBO documentary done on him by the two supposed victims. It is highly biased. There is a debunk picking apart all the statements the two guys make on it. Second I made a joke based on what they both said on the documentary that he would stare at their butt holes. Sorry it flew over your head.
The interior theater scene was shot at the “Rialto movie theater in South Pasadena btw.
I was a kid who got to stay up late to watch that world premiere of Thriller. I got the album for Christmas that year. There will never be anything like "Thriller," just like there will never be another Rick Baker or another Michael Jackson.
KING OF POP 👑
King Of Pedophiles too. Don't forget that part
@@ACMJPT.2 Fuck off.
ACMJ 2 If you still believe that you have not done enough research. Those people that sued him either felt they needed the money that bad or were plain greedy people. Micheal Jackson did not have the best childhood and was always a kid at heart.
@@Eminem55055 What that crazy medical castration claim he had?
ACMJ 2 actually he wasn’t a pedophile
Rick Baker and MJ are legends. Thriller is forever a legendary video that all music videos are compared to. I saw it as a baby, essentially, and was blown away. Everytime it's on, I stop and watch.
Thriller gave me nightmares as a kid. God I was soft
well you were a baby
My kids also get scared, I tell them "don't worry you're girls."
Thriller literally broke racial barriers, MTV realized they HAD to show more black artists when Thriller hit, along with Beat it and Billie Jean, it also revolutionized Music Videos, and made the Thriller album the greatest selling album, which led to his historic 8 Grammy wins, and then he became the king of pop
I doubt he said, "Little Michael Jackson." Jackson was the biggest star in the world at the time. Playing Mike like he was gone from the scene for awhile.
Exactly, "Off the Wall" was a hit 3 years prior
The guests he gets on this podcast are amazing. I’d love for Tarantino to come on.
I thought Michael Jackson was a werewolf in Thriller. Didn't he howl in the video? Cats don't do that!
@@straitjacket3120 Why didn't I think of that?
Rodney Allen Rob Ager’s analysis video of Thriller goes waaay deep into this exact question
That’s part of the beat
It’s called a thriller wolf part cat part wolf
When I was a kid I had Thriller on the view master. It scared me so bad I couldn't even look at it.
HAHAHA..... I've not thought about those in years! Thanks for the memory jog!!! :)
Back when people actually cared lol
Michael Jackson helped compose the music for sonic the hedgehog 3
Since it was released after he was accused of child molestation, sega disavowed his involvement but still used his work
Michael Jackson, Rick Baker, John Landis, Michael Peters, THRILLER : LEGENDS.
D ghazd not to mention Vincent Price.
Now I'm going to go watch Thriller.
Imagine seeing Michael on a Joe Rogan podcast.
Michael "My dad had me chemically castrated. HEEE HEEEEEEE"
Joe"with dmt?"
just THINK ABOUT IT
Joe: Michael what about DMT? Michael: heee heee
Dudes voice is spot on with “BOB ROSS”💯👍✍🏻😇
The Thriller video was my first exposure to horror movies. I watched the video when I was 5 years old and it scared me so much I had trouble sleeping after I saw it. The part that scared me the most believe it or not was not the werewolf scene it was the part where the zombie came out of the manhole cover and there was this green light reflecting off his face. That haunted my dreams for about a week that was a creepy looking zombie.
True true Sir Joe, it transformed what the expectations became for music videos from than on
💙💙💙💙 M.J.💙💙💙💙
Great interview. Its good to hear talented and famous people just talking about stuff, things that are important and amusing to them, rather than a stilted conversation where they're trying to sell something.
I was pregnant so had the best excuse to stay home and wait to see the first viewing on MTV. Loved it and watched it over and over. Even when my kid was older watching it with me.
His talent as a singer and dancer was something else. I watched him on TV as a kid and his physical transformation over the years was a sad thing. His death and the reasons behind it were negligence on Michael and his doctor.
This just reaffirms that everything good in life happens randomly!
One of the best interviews yet...
I wonder if he knew that this was a legendary time in his life
well if your the most famous person on earth at the time then yes he probably did know and the 4th most googled human TODAY 11 yrs after his death
Nobody has come close to Michael Jacksons all round ability and talent and superstardom
Great insight intp one of the 20th century's biggest musical events.
another brilliant guest joe thanks dude
That zombie dance was so cool. I remember watching it as a kid and, strangely, being envious of them for being able to dance like that! I say strangely because I was never into dancing and never wanted to dance, (and still don't!), but I was mesmerized by it and stood in front of the TV trying to copy the moves!
Rest in Peace one of the greatest to ever do it 🙏❤️
Who?
God bless Michael.
Buy his way out of prosecution for despicable crimes?
@@larry90944 exactly. Why do we pretend that he didn't do horrible things?
@@jackiejackiebootysmackie Becuase he didnt, you dunce. Holy shit, people. Learn to fucking read ans read the goddman transcripts.
I remember it like it was yesterday it both scared and excited me as a nine year old girl in Northern Ireland, only two families in my estate were allowed to watch it ( we felt so cool) went on to trying to teach all the dance moves to the kids with the not so cool parents 😍
Thriller revolutionized the music video medium. Always really cool to hear firsthand accounts of such monumental moments.
The bandit masks and the zombie masks in ‘Thriller’ I just realized has for a long time been reminding me of the movie ‘They Live’.
What a lovely voice.
"its like he was two different persons in one"...u got that right.
Michaels werewolf epic! The whole video is epic! Saw it as a tiny kid and I swear it set the course for the rest of my life! Thank you for your contributions good sir.
Soothing voice.
HA! Gay
Still one of the greatest albums ever made PERIOD.
Other than Michael Jackson and all of his super talent and amazing capabilities something so slept on imo is Quincy Jones brillian and beautiful production.
Wit no Quincy, there would be no Thriller
without eggs, and milk i cant make a cake.
beat it demo without quincy. all are in head
@@kaafaa5944 Billie Jean demo, wanna be startin somethin demo, girl is mine demo, all the same if not better than the album version and created by Michael, yet Quincy gets all the credit 🤔
@@user-bl1pw2th4l Quincy was a major part of MJs golden era (Off The Wall, Thriller, Bad) and MJ himself was more than happy to give QJ his due props..... No need to get butt-hurt over it.
We will never see anything as big as Michael Jackson again. I don’t think it’s even possible now.
I love this guys voice. So relaxing.
I loved the making of Thriller, we had it on Betamax. I must have watched it 100 times, made me want to do creature make up. 👍
I still have my Thriller album and my Thriller 45.
Vintage baby 😆
Khabib cherrypicking Weight bully no pedophile here
Despite what he may or may not have done, I was a huge fan in the 80's and 90's. Loved his music.
Dennis Anderson oh yes ofc bro
@@dennisanderson7034 What he didn't* do. 😉
#MJInnocent
I have very little memories from my childhood but I remember like it was yesterday sitting in the basement of my parents house eating a giant Hershey's kiss mesmorized watching the debut of that video on MTV.
Thriller is one of my all time favourite videos, not just music video, but video PERIOD. And that zombie dance scene, my all time favourite of dance scenes; also, gotta love the way Michael turns around and now he's a zombie, it was the perfect look.
I love hearing this its brilliant to hear. Yes the making of Thriller was amazing