- (children) Kids react to music!
This episode: Michael Jackson!
- (FBE) Today, we're actually going to be showing you
a medley of some of the greatest hits
from one of the biggest pop stars of all time.
- Okay.
- Oh god.
I don't like pop because it's not real music.
♪ (percussive intro) ♪
- ♪ She was more like a beauty queen ♪
- What is his name?
- Michael Jackson?
- Yes! Michael Jackson!
- Michael Jackson! Yes!
- I should have known it's Michael Jackson.
- Yeah, he is definitely one of the greatest people.
- ♪ People always told me ♪
- (singing along) ♪ Be careful what you do ♪
♪ And don't go around breaking young girls' hearts ♪
- I love Michael Jackson.
- ♪ Billie Jean is not my lover (ooh!) ♪
♪ She's just a girl who claims that I am the one ♪
- Ooh, the dance moves are so great.
- ♪ ...the kid is not my son ♪
- I miss Michael Jackson.
- ♪ Just beat it (beat it) ♪
- Ooh, "Beat It." This is good.
- ♪ No one wants to be defeated ♪
♪ Showin' how funky and strong is your fight ♪
♪ It doesn't matter who... ♪ - How does he do it?
- (singing along) - ♪ Just beat (beat it) ♪
♪ Beat it (beat it) ♪
♪ No one wants to be defeated (oh, no) ♪
♪ Showin' how funky... ♪ - What are they even talking about?
- Yes!
- ♪ It doesn't matter who's wrong... ♪ - This is great.
People need to make music like this now.
- More!
- ♪ So let me hold you tight... ♪
- Oh, this is one of his most popular one.
- I really like this song.
- "Thriller." - ♪ 'Cause this thriller ♪
- I used to be very scared of this.
- We did this song for my Halloween festival at school.
- (singing along) ♪ Thriller, thriller night ♪
- ♪ 'Cause I can thrill you more than any ghoul would ever dare ♪
- Mm-mm, yeah! Love it!
- ♪ So let me hold you tight ♪
♪ And share a killer thriller (ow!) ♪
- This is another one that I really, really like.
- I think that it's really cool that people are still listening to it
and still dancing to it.
- ♪ We are here to change the... ♪
- Oh, this is Captain EO. - ♪ Change the world ♪
- I saw that at Disneyland once.
- ♪ Change the world ♪ - I haven't heard this song yet.
- All right, I've actually never heard this one.
- What is happening?
- Yeah, I have no idea what this song is.
It looks like it's space.
♪ (funky synthpop) ♪
- Oh! Whew!
- (FBE) That was part of Captain EO, that used to be at Disneyland.
- Oh. (laughing)
Michael Jackson had something at Disneyland?
- ♪ They say the sky's the limit ♪
♪ And to me that's really true ♪
♪ But my friend... ♪ - He's jumping over the turnstiles.
I don't think that's allowed.
- ♪ Because I'm bad (I'm bad) ♪
- Yeah, I-- oh my god. This brings back so many memories.
- (singing along) ♪ I'm bad, I'm bad ♪
- ♪ And the whole world has to answer right now ♪
♪ Just to tell you once again ♪
♪ Who's bad ♪
- Who's bad?!
- I love his dance moves. It's great.
- ♪ Annie, are you okay ♪
♪ So, Annie, are you okay ♪
♪ Are you okay, Annie ♪
♪ You've been hit by... ♪
- Now it looks like he's part of the mafia.
- All his music videos are so interesting.
- ♪ You've been hit by ♪
♪ You've been hit by ♪ - Oh my gosh!
That was cool.
- ♪ You've been hit by ♪ - (singing along) ♪ A smooth criminal ♪
- ♪ Ow! ♪
- I was gonna go as him for Halloween once.
- There's so much going on.
- What is it with him and his big dance?
- Oh, the moonwalk. That was cool.
- That was actually pretty cool, how he spinned the hat and he's like...
- ♪ Don't tell me you agree with me ♪
♪ When I saw you kicking... ♪ - Ooh, his hair looks angelic.
- Oh, it's on the Statue of Liberty.
- ♪ But if you're thinkin' about my baby ♪
♪ It don't matter if you're black or white ♪
- Oh yeah, this was a good message.
I remember this.
- ♪ But if you're thinkin' about my baby ♪
♪ It don't matter... ♪
- I like this video especially because it's like all over the world.
- This is something that a really cheesy boy band would do,
like One Direction.
- They're all great, They're all catchy,
and they all have a really great meaning.
- ♪ Do you remember the time ♪ - Yeah!
- ♪ When we fell in love ♪
♪ Do you remember... ♪
- Love the Egyptian feel.
- ♪ Do you remember the time ♪
- I've heard this song before, I just didn't know who it was by.
- ♪ Girl, remember the time ♪
♪ Remember, my baby ♪
♪ Remember the time (woo!) ♪
- Why does he look like a doll, kind of?
His skin, it's weird, like he put so much stuff over it.
- His face just gets weirder and weirder,
like the nose just gets... errrr.
- ♪ You are not alone ♪
♪ You are not alone ♪
♪ I am here with you ♪
- He looks like a doll.
- ♪ I am here with you ♪
- Ah! No, please.
- Is that him?
How is that him?
- ♪ Though you're far apart ♪ - He's so pale.
- ♪ I am here to stay ♪
- This is like one of these songs
where you take your flashlight out and you're like...
- ♪ In my heart ♪
- (laughing) He's just like...
- ♪ Though we're far apart ♪ - That's so angelic.
- ♪ You're always in my heart ♪
- He can hold his breath for such a long time.
- I have to say, that's better than Beyoncé,
and that's-- I can't believe I'm saying that.
- I like his music a lot.
You can just dance along.
- When he died, at the time, I didn't know who he was,
but then my mom told me to start listening to him
and I did and I was like, wow.
- I loved all of it! It was so good.
I wish he was still alive today, but that's really--
that sucks that he died, but... at least we still have music of him.
- (children) Question time!
- (FBE) All of these were hits from the pop star Michael Jackson.
- Yeah!
- He's pretty famous.
- Everybody should know who he is.
He's like the king of pop!
- King. Of. Pop.
- He's one of the greatest pop stars of all time.
- If you do not know who Michael Jackson is,
you live under a rock, literally.
- (FBE) So what do you think of Michael Jackson
from all of the videos we showed you?
- He always changes. It's weird.
- Kind of creepy.
- Every one of his songs has a good message.
- His dance moves are great, his songs are great.
- He is an amazing singer. He is awesome!
- His dancing is so good, like top one.
I love him so much.
I wish I could just see him again!
- (FBE) So Michael Jackson started performing
when he was just six years old,
in a group with his brothers, which later became known as--
- Jackson 5! Jackson 5.
I LOVE the Jack-- Jackson 5.
- (FBE) He eventually went solo and became one of the most famous stars
of the '80s and '90s, and some say
he is the most successful entertainer in history.
- I believe it.
- That's true. Right there, that's true.
- (FBE) So what do you think it is about Michael Jackson
that made him so popular for such a long time?
- Well, he wrote good music.
- He's a good singer, he's a good dancer,
he's likeable.
- He was so good that, like, parents know him,
so the parents tell their kids, or kids can find out on their own.
- He doesn't care what anyone else says,
and he just does his own thing.
He's just different. He just pops!
- He just has great, happy, good music that makes you want to dance
and sing along with him.
It's catchy, I mean, it's already in my head.
You can't get it out.
- (FBE) So besides him being famous, and singing and dancing,
there's also been a lot of controversy around him.
Do you know anything about that?
- What does "controversy" mean?
- Mm, no.
- No.
- Mm, no.
- No.
- No, because I'm, like, ten.
- Uh-uh. I have no idea.
- I think I heard something about, like, he was like
with kids' sleepovers or something.
I heard that, but I'm not sure if that's true or not.
- (FBE) So, unfortunately, Michael died in 2009
when he was just 50 years old. - Oh, only 50.
- 50's not old and it's not young.
- I think he should have lived longer.
- When he died, it pretty much changed the entire world.
- It was really sad because my grandma was crying
and I was looking at them, like, I don't know what's happening,
but it must be really sad.
- (FBE) When he died, it was massive news,
all around the world.
So why do you think his death impacted so many people?
- Because everyone loved him.
- He was really famous, and when famous people die,
everyone always gets sad.
- He's such a good singer that everybody knows him.
I don't even remember when I found out about him.
I just feel like I always just knew him somehow.
- Everybody was moved by his music, by the messages in the songs that he wrote.
His music, like, changed people and they want to give back to him.
- (FBE) So before we end the episode,
we want you to do one of his most famous dance moves,
and that's the moonwalk. - Yay!
- Oh, I know that.
- I tried to learn it when I was, like, ten
and I completely failed.
- I'm gonna take off my shoes because, as you can see...
I should have weared better shoes today!
- Get ready to be astonished. Just kidding.
I don't know...
♪ Hee hee ♪
♪ (Michael Jackson, "Billie Jean") ♪
- (giggling)
- Oh, gosh, there's the wall.
- ♪ Hee hee ♪
♪ Hee hee ♪
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♪ Hee hee ♪
- Bye, guys, now it's time for me to "beat it."
- Thank you guys so, so much for supporting me
after all these years on Kids React,
and I am super, super excited to be going onto Teens React now.
♪ (Michael Jackson, "Billie Jean") ♪