@Bescarr and @wanabestartingsomthing21,
Your opinion is just that YOUR OPINION!!! If I think Marlon and Jackie are just as talented as Michael then they are. IT'S MY OPINION.....
Now when Michael makes his comeback, he better have new dance moves. The Moonwalk, Grabbing his Crouch and kick up his leg has played out. The 80's are gone forever.
I really had no idea my opinion was MY OPINION, because I thought it was yours, LOL !!!
When Michael comes back he better have new dance moves. Well what are you going to do, call Tom Sneddon if he does the Moonwalk, grabs his crutch and kicks his leg out. The 80's are gone forever, have you only just noticed !!! .............. Also way are so many artists doing Michael's 80's moves in videos, I guess a lot of people want to see Michael's 80's moves.
Marlon and Jackie are just as talented as Michael, well that's your opinion and something your gonna have to live with. Because Jackie is an ok dancer, Marlon is like Robbie Williams on some bad acid trip. AND THAT IS MY OPIONION !!!
Marlon was the choreographer within the family. Just because Mj does it on stage doesn't mean that he first came up with the steps. brothers copy from each others all the time.
All the Jacksons are talented, just not in the same way. I have always loved Tito on the guitar.
Marlon was NOT "the choreographer" within the family when the Jackson 5/ The Jacksons were active. Michael, Jackie and Marlon were the choreographers together. Your right that all of the Jackson's are talented on different ways, but someone like Marlon you actually notice that he's not a natural talent as a solo performer. I am actually really shocked how bad his peformance of Baby Tonight is. I've always seen him as the least talented of the Jackson brothers, but not as bad as he appears to be.
Anyway the time that Michael and his brothers copied each others steps would have stopped in the very early 1980's. Michael didn't let his brothers know (I guess except for Randy) about the songs he wrote for Off The Wall whilst he was recording the Destiny album (as Michael said in his autobiography Moonwalk). Michael didn't tell his brothers about his dance routine for Billie Jean before the peformance (as told by Michael), his brothers were just as stunned as the audience and had no idea Michael was going to do the Moonwalk. Michael keeps many ideas from music to dancing to himself, and the days of Michael doing choreography with Jackie and Marlon are nothing to do with his solo career. Marlon did a terrible peformance in 1987, and it was a very bad and laughable take on both Michael Jackson and James Brown. I've seen many of Marlon's dance moves and facial expressions when performing with the Jackson 5/ The Jacksons, and he's always had a different style to Michael that suited him, but that Baby Tonight peformance is Marlon trying to be a peformer that he's not and can never be.
Marlon dancing like Michael is YOUr truth, but only the people who lived with them know the truth.
Marlon was the choreographer for the J5. him trying to dance like Mj, could it be that they worked together and did the same steps as they were choreographed steps.
On that specific Baby Tonight performance Marlon is copying Michael's moves and facial expressions. It's highly unlikely (though I dont rule it out) Michael and Marlon did the choreography together in 1987. Michael was too busy with his Bad album, tour and filming his own music videos. And Marlon wanted his own identity as Marlon Jackson, not just the brother of Michael Jackson.
quote=theMJgal;1637176].Now I don't think it's fair to even compare Marlon to Michael. Marlon was just an average kid ya know? A child prodigy like Michael is a once in a lifetime thing. Michael was born a preformer, Marlon...who knows what Marlon could have been. I see it like this, Marlon was just as young as Michael when they first started preforming back in Gary. The life of showbusiness has been stamped on Marlon's head since day one. Marlon could have wanted to be a fireman or an astronaut had the Jackson 5 never exsisted, but singing and dancing was kinda pushed into him.
As a matter a fact Marlon, Michael, and Jackie looked pretty smooth if you ask me. Watch Motown 25!!!! Marlon was not even overdoin it. He was smooth with them spins. Even in his "Don't Go" music video or the "Body" music vid, he is really good.
I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE when people say Marlon is trying to copy off of MIchael's dance moves lol. MARLON IS MARLON. First off, they're brothers okay, they grew together learning the same steps, the choregraphed a lot of the same moves together, they both watched the same preformers grwoing up, I mean come it's bound to be some dance moves they share.. If you ask me...a Marlon Jackson spin is different from a Michael Jackson spin. Am I saying Marlon is a better dancer than Michael...NO, but he is unique. P.S.-Marlon was killing it at the 30th anniversar. He got better with age, and that can't be said about many dancers.
So how can I end this....I love Marlon. He may not be the best singer or the best dancer, but in my eyes, he is a shining star in his own right.[/quote]
Some of the things you say in your post I agree with, such as Marlon having a different spin to Michael, but that's not how he was dancing in the Baby Tonight peformance. I never started this thread to compare Michael and Marlon, I started it because I'm shocked how rubbish Marlon's performance as a solo artist is, and why he didn't use his own style which he's always had. My view is was that to get solo fam, Marlon felt that he had to perform like Michael to get it because the public must think Michael's style of dancing Jackson family style. When it's not, it's Michael Jackson style dancing, just as Jackie has his own style and Marlon has his own style. But Marlon obviously blew it by copying Michael and not being himself, and maybe if Marlon used his own style with his own spin etc he may have given a much better performance.
I never compare Michael to any of his brothers, there is no need to. What I do is react to fans who start saying Jackie and Marlon are as good as Michael, now those are the fans who compare Michael to his brothers. No one is hating Marlon, just pointing out he's not a good solo performer and much better as a backing singer and dancer in the Jackson 5/ The Jacksons because that's when Marlon comes alive.
