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And no, neither of them are the dancing prisoners video. That's from the Philippines.
(but if you haven't seen that one, it's HERE - more videos from the dancing prisoners can be found HERE)
No, these are two other videos that both demonstrate both a great and cool determination to complete a complex, pointless, and joyful task, and that Michael Jackson's "Thriller" is a great song that cuts through all kinds of bounds of nation and clique.
First, a gentleman who performs his cover version of the track:
Neatorama, which originally posted this, provided a Babelfish translation of Macré's description of his work:
Description: Here a resumption of the title “Thriller” which I completely recorded with the voice. I thus imitated each element of the original title (instrumental, vocal, rhythmic elements and sound effects) by using 64 superimposed audio-video tracks (as this clip attests it; -). This recovery is thus a piece of a’ cappella multitrack, comprising only the sound of my voice, without addition of any instrument, sampler, limps for deforming rate/rhythm or purposes (only effects used being of Réverb and light Chorus). Moreover, I used the technique of the loop for the parts which are repeated (like the rhythmic one). Finally, on the whole of the piece (which contains thousands of notes distributed on the whole of the tracks), I transposed 8 notes which were impossible for me to sing in the acute ones.
Perhaps that does not have the air, but this musical project proved to be relatively titanic! At all events, I hope that you will take as much pleasure to listen to this piece than I had of it to record it. Thank you, in advance, to encourage me by your comments. Good listening and in Bientôt.
Meanwhile, at a French high school in Rouen (I would guess, from some of what we see, maybe a performing arts-centered one?), what looks to be the entire student body uses "Thriller" to create a pretty remarkable one-shot, lip-synced overview of their school and themselves:
Courtesy of Shakesville.
Berit notes that it is especially cool to see all the different cliques - the preppies, the hipsters, the jocks, the band geeks, the stoners, the skate punks, the goths, etc. - all getting their little bit together and then joining together to do this bigger thing. And we both agreed that "Thriller" is just a song that can have appeal to ALL of these groups in some way.
Berit also notes jealousy of the facilities these kids have - some damned fine classrooms, and hey, they gots FOOSBALL!
Enjoy.
