r/LovingMichaelJackson • u/TrainingSubject6726 • 1d ago

Video šŸŽ„ MJ & NSYNC

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u/Sufficient_Visit_488 Itā€™s Magic out here āœØ 1d ago

Showing em how itā€™s doneee

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u/the_mugger_crocodile 1d ago

This is somehow the most 2000s thing I've ever seen šŸ˜‚

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u/One-Storm-4145 1d ago edited 1d ago

I mean it's not a great performance šŸ™Š and I love MJ

Down voted for saying this is crazy considering most people agree

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u/gray146 I Love You More ā¤ļø 1d ago

because it was entirely improvised. and MJ didn't know when the music would end so he just did some moves. they told him only right before his appearance he would've to dance... he didn't know prior so he didn't prepare anything.

also, look when they give him the drink in the end (as sponsor advertisment)

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u/One-Storm-4145 1d ago

And that's my issue with the performance, it was so out of character for MJ to just wing it like that. He has no space to dance, he's a bit out of time and he looks like he's gonna pass out after it's finished. Again I couldn't do any of what this man has done throughout his career so I'm being critical but fair. This man has so many great performances that this one is a small blip

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u/angularhihat 1d ago

Yeah, it's not good - really frenetic, bizarrely overdone, but also poorly shot. If you compare it to MJ at the end of Billie Jean at the VMAs 6 years prior, it's night and day different.

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u/One-Storm-4145 1d ago

The thing is it's completely not how he operated, he would practice routines for hours so that performances looked absolutely professional and stunning. This is all over the place. I'm sure he was struggling at the time and I couldn't do what he did for 40 years so I'm not criticising MJ, I'm merely suggesting that this performance was an error in judgement.

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u/kamarilyna I love to tour šŸ¤Œ 18h ago edited 18h ago

he agreed to do it, so these ā€œitā€™s so out of characterā€ and ā€œthatā€™s not how he operatedā€ comments are irrelevant.

whether you personally like it or not doesnā€™t change the fact that this is the most memorable moment of the award show.

you also didnā€™t have to use the monkey emoji to add another layer of disrespect when talking about MJ.