I get what you mean for sure. The reason it’s out of match for me is that he used the same kind of things in other places and times, so it kinda felt like part of his normal performances.
Could just be that his primal cries were what he used in other places, so it made internal sense to him, and I’m just not getting that as a viewer/fan. His voice was certainly not pitched to do gutteral and deep screams, so that might have been as harsh as he could get, so it showed up in multiple performances.
Dunno. The emotion of it carries anyway. No matter what anyone thinks about him outside of his performances, the man was top tier as a performer. He could carry more emotion in a five minute dance than some actors manage to convey in a career.
Tangentially, it’s strange in a way that I was around when he was practically a god of music, back in the eighties and nineties, but I didn’t become a fan until later on when I revisited his music. Before that, I enjoyed his music, but didn’t have that kind of connection to it that I developed later, where his stuff can move me.
Oh I absolutely relate with not having that deep connection until later on. I’m probably a little younger than you so by the time I discovered Michael at the age of 4 or so his legacy had already been established, I had vol 1 and 2 of the HIStory music videos and would watch them obsessively trying to dance and sing along, as a child I loved the performance aspect of it but even then felt some sort of emotional resonance… now as an adult when I dip back into Michael I can’t help but think about just how formative his art was in my life.
Yeah it’s the same shout used in many other performances, some of which that have very different messages and intentions. From a viewer’s perspective I agree that it can be easily misinterpreted; from a performer’s perspective, I don’t think the sound was specifically chosen or planned, when you’re zoned in on your performance you’re channeling a lot of energy and some things just find their way out. That’s what makes it so powerful to me, the dance doesn’t even feel specifically choreographed, the sound and dance are just expressions of raw emotion.
The man can literally make me want to cry by moving around and shouting. It’s so incredible.
I get what you mean for sure. The reason it’s out of match for me is that he used the same kind of things in other places and times, so it kinda felt like part of his normal performances.
Could just be that his primal cries were what he used in other places, so it made internal sense to him, and I’m just not getting that as a viewer/fan. His voice was certainly not pitched to do gutteral and deep screams, so that might have been as harsh as he could get, so it showed up in multiple performances.
Dunno. The emotion of it carries anyway. No matter what anyone thinks about him outside of his performances, the man was top tier as a performer. He could carry more emotion in a five minute dance than some actors manage to convey in a career.
Tangentially, it’s strange in a way that I was around when he was practically a god of music, back in the eighties and nineties, but I didn’t become a fan until later on when I revisited his music. Before that, I enjoyed his music, but didn’t have that kind of connection to it that I developed later, where his stuff can move me.
Oh I absolutely relate with not having that deep connection until later on. I’m probably a little younger than you so by the time I discovered Michael at the age of 4 or so his legacy had already been established, I had vol 1 and 2 of the HIStory music videos and would watch them obsessively trying to dance and sing along, as a child I loved the performance aspect of it but even then felt some sort of emotional resonance… now as an adult when I dip back into Michael I can’t help but think about just how formative his art was in my life.
Yeah it’s the same shout used in many other performances, some of which that have very different messages and intentions. From a viewer’s perspective I agree that it can be easily misinterpreted; from a performer’s perspective, I don’t think the sound was specifically chosen or planned, when you’re zoned in on your performance you’re channeling a lot of energy and some things just find their way out. That’s what makes it so powerful to me, the dance doesn’t even feel specifically choreographed, the sound and dance are just expressions of raw emotion.
The man can literally make me want to cry by moving around and shouting. It’s so incredible.