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[Study for Thesis] What was the first element which appealed you in MJ?

Which MJ element first appealed to you?

  • His style (the Fedora, the band aid, the military outfit, the curls!)

    Votes: 9 8.6%

  • His short films (which one? Thriller? Bad? Scream?)

    Votes: 20 19.0%

  • His dancing (The moonwalk? The Robot? Which routine?)

    Votes: 26 24.8%

  • His voice (which song?)

    Votes: 50 47.6%
  • Total voters
    105
For me it was his voice. Earth Song was the first song I really, like, listened and it really blew me away.. and here I am now.
 
The first time I remember anything about Michael was in 1991. I was 6yrs old and Black or White came on the radio. I remember saying to my mum "What is that??!!". I was hooked!
So I voted his voice, because thats my first memory of Michael.
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A tie between his dance and voice because the first time I watched the Billie Jean performance at Motown 25, I was amazed by both. I couldn't take my eyes off the screen and I thought his vocals were gorgeous.
 
I was five when I first heard Michael on a tape, Thriller album, we were a communist country, and tapes and video cassetes were so hard to find... so I voted for his voice:)
 
His voice. The first album I got was Thriller. I think it was the love songs that got me hooked. Lady in my Life, Baby Be Mine, etc.
 
Of course, being exposed to Mike for the first time as a young kid, it was the videos. Thriller to be exact, that was my first experience. I was scared out of my mind, but fell in love at the same time:wub: So my parents got me Moonwalker for Christmas when it came out and I watched it to DEATH. I likened it to crack for kids, it was so random, mesmerizing and addicting
(I still have my Moonwalker VHS:D).
 
Fopr me it was the music, not necessarily his voice. Dirty Diana and Smooth Criminal made me a fan. Later I fell in love with his looks and his style :)
 
Dance.
I was watching the '93 AMA's to see a different artist and Michael came on and did Dangerous. The entire performance was mesmerizing for me, for some reason, the latter part, after he ditched the jacket, when they danced in unison to the end, was particularly the moment I think... when I went from being a casual fan to major fan.

Good luck with the Thesis :)
 
his voice :) i was first attracted to michael when i was a young kid, and i heard "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" for the first time.. the rest is HIStory.. :) sorry lol had to be tacky.
 
His voice.

As soon as I heard "Will You Be There" & "Man In The Mirror" as a little girl, that was it for me.
I loved his music and even as little kid I could recognize that he had a uniquely beautiful voice.
 
Ooohhhh... this is SO difficult to answer, because when I see/hear/think of MJ, I think of his voice, his moves, his short films, his style, his curls, his house, his animals, his Ehh Ohhh's, his EVERYTHING.

I might be wrong on this, but I think we can't simply take ONE aspect of MJ to be THE one thing that appealed to us. In my case, I became aware of MJ with the making of "Thriller" and I was 6 or 7 by then. And I say that I "became awared" of him, because ever since I can remember, now I know he was there, but as a little child of 2 or 3 I wasn's aware that the little boy of the Jackson 5 cartoons was the same boy singing "Ben" and the same young man singing "Thriller" :)

"Thriller", the video, was my welcome ticket to MJ's world. And what is Thriller? Just "a song" (his singing)? Just a choreography (his dance)? Just a movie (his short videos)? Thriller is all that and much, much more. We WANTED to dance like him. We WANTED to be the girl walking by him. We WANTED to be rescued by him.

And then "WE are the world" came out... and we wanted to follow the efforts of that young gentle sould. So he was not only beutiful, graceful, full of talent, a great dancer and a great singer... he was also a caring soul!

But maybe I was too small to fully understand that. Then came BAD. And it was a shock. If we wanted to dance Thriller before, some like me decided we could NEVER dance "Bad" the way Mike did... so... I just watched, amazed and full of admiration to him. All the videos from the BAd album are master pieces. But "Smooth Criminal"... that is a classic.

MJ is not only a singer, not only a dancer, not only a generous man. He is THE man and he is UNIQUE. I love him for his ALL. And yes, he made lots of mistakes. Many mistakes and he suffered for those; that's why I love him the most. With all his gifts, MJ was just a man, a human being just like you and me.

I love MJ. All of him! :)

(ok... I am a passionate fan!)
 
Im gonna say his appearance== hair.. When i first saw Mike I was three years old and could not really judge on anything else. I just knew that in the Black or White video his hair was really cool.. and have been a fan ever sense. Now however as i got older im 20 and love him for his caring voice and innovative style! i hope i helped :)
 
I picked his dancing. I saw him for the first time on TV in 1995 and it was during the MTV awards. I was 8 years old then. And it was the coolest thing that i had ever witnessed.
 
I first listen to the song "One Day in Your Life" on the radio and I was mesmerized by MJ's voice. I heard it on a late night radio program, everywhere was so quiet and all you can hear was MJ's singing. I cannot believe that it was 28 years ago and it all feels like yesterday to me.
 
It was the Billie Jean video...I was a kid at that time and when I saw that on tv I was blown away....I saw him as a magician, and after that day I was hooked. It was the tiles that light up when he stepped on it, it was the spinning, it was the voice...it was everything. :)
 
I grew up with his music, so that is impossible to answer. But what attracted me to Michael, the person, was his smile! :)
 
His dancing. Watching him dance always made me smile :D
I remember watching Moonwalker, Remember the Time, Thriller, Beat It.
 
If I could, I wouldn´t refer to Physical things, but to the personality .. because it wasn´t the physical and material stuff that attracted me the most. But the question is limited so I have to say: his voice - The first time I remember to ear his voice, I was 5 years old (and it made me shiver):
Tell Me I'm Not Dreamin'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k75MpPuG9mg&feature=related

The part he sang was:

".............Midnight images of you
You slipped, slipped into my room
Could be magic, could be fantasy
Could it be that we're in love
Tell me I'm not dreamin'

Your voice whispers in the dark
You talk, talking to my heart
Are you with me
Am I here with you
Are we in paradise
Tell me I'm not dreamin'..."
And I must say that it was his voice that gave fire to the song, and not his brother... (sorry Jermaine).

And has I cry and remember my first MJ experiences, I think:
You talk, talking to my heart.
Are you with me??
Am I here with you!!
Are we in paradise???


This really really made me cry (my deepest cry was stock into my chest since the day he died and now it's going out of it) .................. MJ I LOVE YOU! I want you back. If you were alive, if there were any chance for you to be alive... you would feel so much loved... I hope you feel this love in heaven, altough.
 
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For me it was a mix between his voice and short films.They don't care about us - the video & song - made me a fan! It is,to this day,my favorite song.I just love his angry voice and the meaningful lyrics! Also,his anger is very evident in the video! It was something that came from his heart and soul!
 
His eyes and his heart.
I think it was in the Oprah interview he talked about sick children he invited to Neverland .
 
I voted for His dancing (The moonwalk? The Robot? Which routine?

The Anti- gravity lean.
 
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