MJ On the Dance Floor

Written By Kensedeobong Okosun

MJ was the “King of Dance” and the dance era of his career began in 1979 with the album Off the Wall. Enough said! Let’s step on the dance floor!

  1. “Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUDvEcNU2l0‍ ‍Off The Wall (1979).

  2. “Rock With You” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCjxP58Ydik‍ ‍Off The Wall (1979).

  3. “Workin’ Day And Night” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWnyCxva6bA‍ ‍Off The Wall (1979).

  4. “Get On The Floor” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdYwglFL6iM‍ ‍Off The Wall (1979).

  5. “Off The Wall” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0ViBH7m4XA‍ ‍Off The Wall (1979).

  6. “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93lndvOlKD8‍ ‍Thriller (1982).

  7. “Beat It” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOn-HdEg6AQ‍ ‍Thriller (1982).

  8. “Just Good Friends” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt27N-_3Hjs‍ ‍Bad (1987).

  9. “Another Part Of Me” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeAlVg5uehc‍ ‍Bad (1987).

  10. “Smooth Criminal” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mMyPJSx8RU‍ ‍Bad (1987).

  11. “Leave Me Alone” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToSon4gWsX0‍ ‍Bad (1989).

  12. “Jam” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGT_9ah_YFo‍ ‍Dangerous (1991).

  13. “Why You Wanna Trip On Me” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL3oj6aYbrA‍ ‍Dangerous (1991).

  14. “In The Closet” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6pELkXYt6Y‍ ‍Dangerous (1991).

  15. “She Drives Me Wild” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRp_FqCmsVA‍ ‍Dangerous (1991).

  16. “Remember The Time” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM19eRgOK1Q‍ ‍Dangerous (1991).

  17. “Black Or White” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP3W-E0OamU‍ ‍Dangerous (1991).

  18. “Dangerous” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jTq2FXKr0g‍ ‍Dangerous (1991).

  19. “Scream” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKdJIkXa5fI‍ ‍HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I (1995).

  20. “They Don’t Really Care About Us” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsHZBisKwxg‍ ‍HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I (1995).

  21. “This Time Around” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXFSjcjK73M‍ ‍HIStory : Past, Present and Future, Book I (1995).

  22. “D.S” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHWpLfZzGU0‍ ‍HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I (1995).

  23. “Blood On The Dance Floor” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTUINfx2XbY‍ ‍Blood On The Dance Floor: HIStory In The Mix (1997).

  24. “Ghosts” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxuu6VrVrTU‍ ‍Blood On The Dance Floor: HIStory In The Mix (1997).

  25. “Superfly Sister” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNWkhRoIvtk‍ ‍Blood On The Dance Floor : HIStory In The Mix (1997).

  26. “You Rock My World” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiE1inuK5tE‍ ‍Invincible (2001).

  27. “2000 Watts” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA5hpF7PH1Q‍ ‍Invincible (2001).

Kensedeobong Okosun

Kensedeobong Okosun is a music enthusiast, music researcher, music journalist with expertise in music selection & planning, vocalist and an author. Her academic article “Sisterhood and Soul Music as expressions of Black Power” is featured in the edited volume, Black Power in Hemispheric Perspective (Raussert & Steinitz, eds, 2022). She has reviewed Dorothea Gail’s Weird American Music for the Forum for Interamerican Research (fiar, 2019). Her work has appeared on Nigeria’s Sun News Online and The Nigerian Observer.

Kensedeobong’s blog highlights music’s interconnectivity with society and comprises personal music experiences, researched information, concept playlists for multiple themes, etc.

A hard-core 90s R&B fan, she utilises the vehicle of memory, to position long forgotten music of yesteryears on the front-burner.

She is persuaded that music is a core conduit of collective harmony, equanimity, vitality and healing. And as such requires criticality in the filtration process, in order to disseminate meaning. Her blog promotes music equality and diversity.

She resides in Germany.

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