Michael Jackson - The King of Pop & King of the Pop Video Part 2

In the previous part to this post, I discussed about some of Michael Jackson's earlier music videos and how he has tried to change his image from beginning in Jackson 5 to becoming his own single and independent artist. Now following Michael's 'Thriller' he was the biggest pop star in the world. All of his videos managed to make it on the news without effort. There was seen to be massive excitement about the release of the next video 'Bad'. This was an important song because Michael's fans and audience couldn't wait to see what his new image was and the new dance routine that he had planned for the music video. The lyrics of the song are actually relatively simple and the music video is mainly just choreographed dancing. As well as the dancing, you can also see that the song has been lip synced which seems to be so far what Michael is used to doing as the only song so far in which he has actually been singing in is 'Rock With You'.

The next song 'Black and White' that is really an iconic song because is is all about equality and sends a really strong message. This video was very expensive to produce. This video was important to Michael because he was trying to resurrect his career because there were many allegations that he was strange. The main allegations were because Michael has decided to change his image and this is the moment when he decided that he was going to change his skin colour. The expenses for the music video would have been extremely high because of the locations that they had to film at but as well as in the beginning of the song when Michael is at the safari. After this happens we go to the wild west where they are plenty of people in costumes and on horses running around the set. I'm sure that it would not have been cheap to get the costumes for about 40 people and to get horses for half of them. Finally the last song in the list to analyse is Michael's 'Earth Song'. This song is sending an extremely strong message about how us humans, are damaging our planet. It shows how we are recklessly damaging the animals around us as well for the things that they have and the habitats that they live in. Even to our own fellow humans but those who are in the third world and don't have enough food or water to stay alive. As well as leaving those who need food and water to fend for themselves there are also those who hurt each not by neglect, but also by the fact that nations wage war on each other and all of the small villages and towns are the ones to suffer after all of the fighting is over. I believe that Michael is seen to be a sort of Christ-like character as he can feel all of the people in the world who are suffering. That is why he then begins to start undoing all of the things that we humans have done to our planet such as killing animals for their furs, CO2 emissions from factories and deforestation. I think that the message of this song is that if we keep going in this direction, there may not be much of the planet left to save.
Overall, Michael's music videos weren't just your typical songs. They became his weapon of choice where he was able to reinvent his image, tell stories and address issues that he wanted to point out.