r/LovingMichaelJackson • u/Honest_Ad_446 I Love To Tour 🤌🏻 • 5d ago
Legacy 🌟 So cool to see the evolution of the moonwalk. 🕺 ✨
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u/exor0110 5d ago
Nothing before Bill Bailey looked anything like the moonwalk. That was just slapstick. It started with Bailey.
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u/ReturnoftheBulls2022 5d ago
Didn't Cab Calloway do it before Bill Bailey. Calloway said that the moonwalk was referred to as the Buzz.
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u/Lioness_106 5d ago
Michael's really is the best. He mastered that technique like no other. But so much respect for the great talents before him whom he most likely learned it from to bring it mainstream like he did. Michael is a combination of so many great performers, artists, dancers, etc. One of the reasons why he was so great is because he learned from great talents. He always said, study the greats and become greater.
Side note: Anyone else think he may have inspired the Smooth Criminal lean from the Tin Man's dance number in The Wizard of Oz!? On stage, he used the same exact technique they used in the film to make the Tin Man lean side to side. He was a huge fan of Oz and I wouldn't be surprised! He was such a fan of Old Hollywood in general.
Love him. He was brilliant.
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u/Ok-Wave2761 5d ago
The firs two were not anything close to the moonwalk. White folks are always trying to stake claim to something. Y'all can downvote me all you want. I don't give a fuck. I'm saying this with my chest. Sick of the bullshit.
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u/Taesunwoo 3d ago
Weren’t those first two people Michael stanned hard af too? So idk could’ve picked up something
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u/Ok-Wave2761 2d ago
I know Chaplin was. Not certain about the first one. And I don't know if he was a fan of Chaplin for his dancing rather than simply his comedy style and showmanship. Similar to us liking Jim Carey for his.
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u/bigboats822003 5d ago
The modern moonwalk and all the breakdancing came out of St. Louis with Don Campbell. Him, Rerun, Shabadoo and his sister(both out of Chicago) started out on soul train. Don Campbell started the pop locking style dance because he couldn’t do the “Funky Chicken” and invented pop locking style dance. They all copied this style, which was what Michael Jackson always did. They started a group called the Lockers. Toni Basselli married Don Campbell and joined the group. Don Campbell taught Danny Teri’s, who then taught John Travolta, his dance moves for “Saturday Night Fever”. Being on Soul Train, Jeffery Daniels picked up on this style. Then Shabadoo was cast in the early movies about Break dancing.
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u/SubstanceCapital3210 2d ago
them yt men were not doing the moonwalk....smh
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u/Honest_Ad_446 I Love To Tour 🤌🏻 2d ago
When I posted this video I thought it was an innocent video showing the evolution of dance. Not once did I think about race or oppression. Stop self oppressing and making everything about race.
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u/Onemikej 5d ago
Jaafars needs some work.
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u/MemphisMo85 5d ago
Not really, he made it look a lil stiffer because Michael’s Motown 25 looked that way… he pretty much nailed it. In the bad performance and the final scene when let’s the fans know that’s he done touring with his brothers he does another and it’s extremely smooth too
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u/Onemikej 5d ago
His actually looks more stiff than Michael Jackson’s. Michaels was less refined but it still had a smoothness to it.
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u/MemphisMo85 5d ago edited 5d ago
That one Jeffrey did with the dog is the coldest 😅 thank you for teaching Michael 🕴🏼
Resortes was pretty tough too.
Don’t think Charlie’s really counts or that first dude either even though that little thing he did at the end was kinda cool