Comments on: Random MTV VMA Observations http://refriedscreens.com/music/random-mtv-vma-observations/ Pop Culture Mashed Up And Tasty Wed, 23 May 2012 09:18:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: refrieds http://refriedscreens.com/music/random-mtv-vma-observations/#comment-196 refrieds Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:28:47 +0000 http://refriedscreens.com/music/random-mtv-vma-observations/#comment-196 You know, Kiros, when you put it that way, I guess that for a living dead zombie, Britney's performance wasn't half bad! You know, Kiros, when you put it that way, I guess that for a living dead zombie, Britney’s performance wasn’t half bad!

]]> By: Kiros http://refriedscreens.com/music/random-mtv-vma-observations/#comment-192 Kiros Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:54:25 +0000 http://refriedscreens.com/music/random-mtv-vma-observations/#comment-192 If Thriller was indication, the living dead can actually groove. After Britney's VMA performance, I couldn't exactly tell you where she's classified on that spectrum. Maybe it has something to do with the nature of the undead's zombification? In Thriller, MJ was the lead zombie/werewolf (it was the 80s, just go with it) of a dancing troup of zombies reanimated by the unholy combination of the musical stylings of Quincy Jones and MJ's starpower in his prime -- when clever make-up was intended to CONVEY not HIDE rotting flesh on his face. Basically, this introduced the concept of the "dancing zombie" to a culture dominated by Romero's "walking zombie." The power of this performance was such that over twenty years later, it is being replicated in foreign prisons. In Britney's VMA performance, she was also the lead zombie, followed by the soulless undead known as "back-up dancers." Lacking compelling personal motivations such as Jo Jackson's tough love or never having a childhood, Britney instead found her zombification fueled by booze, nights of partying, and lypo. The chemical nature of this zombification explains her shambling "performance" with a scientific certainty unrivaled in this field. If Thriller was indication, the living dead can actually groove. After Britney’s VMA performance, I couldn’t exactly tell you where she’s classified on that spectrum.

Maybe it has something to do with the nature of the undead’s zombification?

In Thriller, MJ was the lead zombie/werewolf (it was the 80s, just go with it) of a dancing troup of zombies reanimated by the unholy combination of the musical stylings of Quincy Jones and MJ’s starpower in his prime — when clever make-up was intended to CONVEY not HIDE rotting flesh on his face. Basically, this introduced the concept of the “dancing zombie” to a culture dominated by Romero’s “walking zombie.” The power of this performance was such that over twenty years later, it is being replicated in foreign prisons.

In Britney’s VMA performance, she was also the lead zombie, followed by the soulless undead known as “back-up dancers.” Lacking compelling personal motivations such as Jo Jackson’s tough love or never having a childhood, Britney instead found her zombification fueled by booze, nights of partying, and lypo.

The chemical nature of this zombification explains her shambling “performance” with a scientific certainty unrivaled in this field.

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