I felt that, in light of recent events, I should pay some sort of tribute to someone so culturally significant that all other news has been moved to the second page as a result of his death. So Michael Jackson is now up on langoLAB for your English-learning pleasure.
I can’t claim to have been a fanatic of Michael Jackson’s music, but I do recognize the impact that he had on the American music scene. Unlike many pop stars today, Michael actually had the voice to back up the pop. One video that sticks out in my mind from my childhood is “Remember the Time“. So exotic and beautiful, totally visually engaging, with the Somalian supermodel, Iman, as Nefertiti and Eddie Murphy as Ramses (a bit of a historical mix-up, but hey, I’m just being nitpicky here). I remember being transfixed – it was unlike anything I’d ever seen on television before. He was groundbreaking – the one who took music out of the studio, off of the radio, and put it into mainstream entertainment. Kudos to him. What’s your favorite Michael Jackson song? What about video?
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