Michael Jackson‘s music continues to be quite the ‘Thriller.’
For, in a testament to the King of Pop’s enduring impact, one of his signature hits – ‘Billie Jean’ – has blazed its way to a major new milestone.
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Today, the music video for the classic crossed the elusive 1 Billion views mark on YouTube.
A huge feat in and of itself, it’s especially notable in this instance given that the visual – which premiered in 1983 – was first uploaded digitally in October 2009. That’s after MJ died.
‘Billie Jean’ is of course lifted from Jackson’s game-changing ‘Thriller’ LP, which remains the best-selling album of all time with over 70 million units sold.
Legendary!
Nice.
the greatest of all time
What off, being a p***? Yuck! 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Jeez, where you been? Jackson’s accusers were proven in court to be frauds. They always have been. Go watch Square One to see how the allegations started back in 1993 as an extortion by Evan Chandler about his son Jordan he never even gave a damn about. It’s literally backed up the court files which explain it all and why Jackson was forced to pay settlement money. You even watch the trial re-enactment of the 2005 case and see how the Arvizos got exposed right there in court as frauds & the mother Janet Arvizo got charged with perjury, welfare fraud and had made her kids falsely accuser their own dad of abuse. And Leaving Neverland got debunked having over 60 lies, by two frauds who failed to mention their multiple attempts to scam jackson money before (and now after) their movie with lawsuits that don’t even match what they said in their film and LN itself was directed by a creep called Dan Reed who actually said kids can have ‘fulfilling sexual and emotional relationships with adults’. Do you post these sorts of comments about all the white rock starts who openly dated underage girls in public, even wrote songs about it? Examples like Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones (47 when he started dating 13 yr old Mandy Smith? Or Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers (admitted s** with 14 yr old while in his 20’s, in his autobiography). Or Steven Tyler of Aerosmith who adopted a teenage girl and got her pregnant. Or is it just the thoroughly investigated and exonerated dead black man you got a problem with?
Timeless 😭
It’s another billion for Steve Barron too who directed ‘Billie Jean’ and also directed the also iconic ‘Take on Me’ video for a-ha which has 1.2 Billion views. 🙂 Also ‘Take on Me’ got upgraded to 4k but the youtube version of ‘Billie Jean’ is still a measly 480p? Not even HD? Come on, Jackson Estate, I know you were busy fighting those frauds but you won most of those and sent Robson and Safechuck packing due to their constant contradictions and multiple timelines. Surely can get some folk to upgrade some of the most legendary groundbreaking music videos of all time upgraded into modern standards of video definition, no?
(by the way Steve Barron also directed the first Ninja Turtles movie back in 1990. Not related to music vids but eh it’s fun bit of triva. Cowabunga and whatnot.) 😀
Thank you for schooling the dumb ass troll
No worries. I didn’t know all this stuff myself until a couple years ago when I watched that 2019 piece of crap expecting to sympathise with the guys in it as a survivor myself but noticing none of it added up and did my research and I’m disgusted by those frauds as are many other real survivors I’ve spoken to.
Thanks for the info, Captain. Interesting stuff!