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25 years of Thriller. Shamon!!
Category: TV & Film
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2008-05-30 14:46:41
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Thriller

Yeah, the red jacket and the ghost gang dancing turned 25 this year. The album is being revamped and the Silver Jubilee edition is in stores now. But what actually reminded me of Thriller and made me listen to it (and yes, I even did the famous arm-swinging routine as well) throughout the week, was this- Signature performing the Bhangra mashed up with Thriller in Britain’s Got Talent’s first Semi Finals winning performance. If you haven’t seen it, you’ve been living in a cave.

Having said that, the magnitude of success of Thriller as an album to hold the Guiness Record of the most selling album worldwide does raise a lot of questions. Is it pop culture blown out of proportion? Is it showmanship winning over melody? Or is it just plain and simple-Jackson at its best. Sadly though, 25 years later after, the success story of Thriller still continues whereas Jackson has transformed into one of those zombie dancers (both physically and mentally) back and forth (Any one keeping count of the transformations, from Black to White to Nose to just Oh-I-donno-what’s that ?).

Personally for me, Thriller has been a kind of a wake up call to the Western culture. Yeah, I do agree that (a confession) that I started listening to English music when Doordarshan North-East used to play MLTR and Bryan Adams at the end of their 6:30 pm evening slot. And one day, the red jacket followed. The chills and thrills I got from the arm-swinging routine can best be described as speechless. I didn’t know this guy. He was a pretty bad actor when he proposes to that girl in the pink top. But what he just did with the zombies was PHENOMENAL. Little did I know that it was already 1992, and Thriller was a world wide rage by then, and well, Thriller was actually released a year before I was born </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Total Play: </td> <td></td> <td> 0 </td> </tr> </table> </form> <audio controls autoplay style= Your browser does not support the audio element.