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Wow!
I was prepared to be disappointed because the trailers were so tantalising I couldn’t believe the film would be that high energy and fun all the way through … but it truly was. I won’t gush on quite as much as Dame Elizabeth, but I did think that there were moments of sheer genius. And you could also see that MJ definitely lived on another planet, to put it kindly.
I’ve never considered myself a Michael Jackson fan particularly, though I did love the Jackson 5 when I was a kid and I remember being totally blown away (along with the rest of the world) when MJ made his very dramatic “come back” on the 25 Years Of Motown special, with his amazing performance of Billy Jean. Which was also one of the highlights of This Is It. Others that I especially enjoyed were The Way You Make Me Feel (fabulous West Side Story set), Beat It and Thriller. Astounding choreography. And really, that’s what made the whole film for me. I’ve never seen anyone move quite like Michael Jackson and I already want to see this film again.
As usual I raced into yoga class yesterday just as it was starting, with everyone lying on their backs and doing a little deep breathing and relaxing. It wasn’t until I’d lain down and got comfortable that I noticed a rather drastic change in the usual music. I thought to myself … could this really be Unchained Melody being played on pan pipes? It was. And it got worse. Next up was Feelings and I almost sat up and asked our instructor Ana if this was some sort of joke or what. By the time the third song started we were well into the “sun greeting” and as a group we all groaned. I mean, it was ABBA fer crying out loud. On pan pipes! At which point Ana fessed up that she’d left her music at home and had borrowed a couple of “easy listening” CDs from the gym. And as the pan pipes crescendoed into the chorus of Chiquitita (aiiyayaiiyaiiii) we all burst out laughing and sniggered our way through the rest of the our first routine.
