THRILLER
Michael Jackson
Thriller is a song recorded by American singer Michael Jackson, composed by Rod Temperton, and produced by Quincy Jones. In this song, sounds effects such as a creaking door, thunder, feet walking on wooden planks, winds and howling dogs can be heard, and the lyrics contain frightening themes and elements. “Thriller” received positive reviews from critics and became Jackson's seventh top-ten single on the Billboards.
A big part of the song/music video is the dance choreography. Our P.e class danced that song and surprisingly is wasn’t as difficult as I expected. At first we started dancing without the music so we can learn all the steps to the dance. I didn’t really enjoy dancing without the music because in my opinion I find it boring. I find it boring because all we listen to is “1,2,3,1,2,3” instead of the beat. Dancing with music is better because the beat and the sounds make you move even if you don’t want to. Also I think dancing with music is better because some beats of the song can give you a clue on which step you should be on.
Before I thought dancing was easy and the professional dancers get paid for doing absolutely nothing. But I was wrong dancing actually takes time and patients and it also takes courage. It takes time and patients because not every step or move will come out perfect the first time you do it. It may take plenty of days to just lesrn 1 simple step. We “learned” the dance in 3 weeks and we were still messing up a lot on which step we should be on. It also takes courage because if you’re dancing and you are nervous or shy it will just mess up with your moves and you will be looking tense.
Once we started dancing with the music I started to move a little more because how I said the beat makes you want to move more, but I know I was still tense and nervous. The dance had lots of weird and unique dance moves. In my opinion my least favorite one was “booty bounce” because I don’t really like to shake my butt and it looked really weird on guys but once I stopped being nervous I found it not that bad. My favorite dance move was the one you “slide then hit hit and dodge” it was my favorite one because it was the easiest on and also because it was smooth when you turned and everything.
My experience on learning this dance could’ve been better if I showed up to class more because I know I would’ve been better if I was there every day learning every move. But I enjoyed the dance because it had a really nice vibe and it was Halloween time which made it a lot better dancing that song. I would recommend people to dance this song because how I said the moves are unique and fun to do. I think people would enjoy as much as I did dancing this song.