Michael Jackson - Billie Jean | New Year 2024 Special (Mega Mix)

Happy New Year 2024, from me and bbygirl!

INFO:
Last year’s New Year’s Eve I didn’t do a video special due to personal reasons, however I felt I was obligated to remedy that and come back this New Year’s Eve with a video I wanted to be one of my best. 2023 has been a wild year for my personal evolution of my character and has helped me realize who I want to be by looking back on my experiences, both good and bad, and reflecting on them and improving myself in the process because of it.

So I felt a video mix featuring at least one Billie Jean performance from every year of Michael’s life (where he performed the song) would be fitting. I wanted to showcase what I think is the de facto Billie Jean performance while also including some rare moments, as such moments often bring a lot of identity into his individual performances.

PERFORMANCES USED:
Music Video Outtakes 1983
Motown 25 - 03.25.1983
Toronto 10.06.1984
Yokohama 09.26.1987
Wembley 07.16.1988
Los Angeles 01.27.1989
Bucharest 10.01.1992
Tokyo 12.12.1992
Buenos Aires 10.12.1993
VMA 09.07.1995
Royal Brunei 07.16.1996
Seoul 10.11.1996
Kuala Lumpur 10.27.1996
Kuala Lumpur 10.29.1996
Sydney 11.16.1996
Munich 07.04.1997
Munich 07.06.1997
Gothenburg 08.16.1997
Seoul 06.25.1999:
MSG 09.07.2001
MSG 09.10.2001
This Is It 06.06.2009

VIDEO:
As I said earlier, I wanted to showcase what I think is the de facto Billie Jean performance while also including some rare moments, as such moments often bring a lot of identity into his individual performances. My goal was to get a video mix that feels easy to follow along with and can even be seen as 1 big performance created by 22 other performances. I used a lot of his later tour and performances because I simply feel that's where his dancing looks the best, however of course I couldn't just do that because then I might as well have made another 'HIStory Tour' focused video mix, so I made sure to create variety between the tours and performances used. But still using what I think is the most appealing and in line with the vibe that the sound mix is giving off, making all of the clips chosen flourish and flow together nicely.

AUDIO:
I used the ‘This Is It’ band rehearsal released by Jonathan Moffett (Michael’s drummer) which I adjusted and extended, and I also added multiple instrumental stems and vocal tracks (both from live shows and studio multitracks) and mixed them, all in order to get a more personalized sound (that I in my own opinion think sounds stronger than the original) that also sounds epic which intensifies his visual performance(s) making him all the more captivating. I chose to make the main deal of the song be the studio acapella because that works the best with every clip and simply sounds the best too. I still made sure to have adlibs spread throughout the performance as it wouldn't be a proper Billie Jean performance without them. For the latter part of the song, I used 'HIStory Tour' adlibs that I feel showcase the style, power and uniqueness of adlibs from that tour.

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