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We have our video that is called Glimpses and Flashes

Yeah, yeah

This Is It • 2009

Kenny Ortega:
So, as we open the show, as you know, with all the lights down. We're gonna do a spectacular opening with pyrotechnics and we want some sizzle and some cracks and some pops. We have our video that is called "Glimpses and Flashes". And that's where Light Man comes out on the gantry, floating above the stage, and he'll just be dazzling in video information. And piece, by piece, by piece, by piece, MJ is revealed until he jumps out and on Michael's command, we begin. Michael Jackson:
[singing]
Got to be Background Singers:
Startin' somethin' Michael Jackson:
Got to be Background Singers:
Startin' somethin' Michael Jackson:
I wanna be Background Singers:
Startin' somethin', Startin' somethin' Michael Jackson:
Hard to get over Background Singers:
Yeah, yeah

Full Transcript

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ORTEGA: So we open the show, as you know, with all the lights down.

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We're gonna create a spectacular opening with pyrotechnics.

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And we want some sizzles and some cracks and some pops.

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We have our video that is called "Glimpses and Flashes."

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And that's where Light Man comes out on the gantry, floating above the stage,

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and he'll just be dazzling in video information.

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And piece by piece by piece by piece,

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MJ is revealed, until he jumps out

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and on Michael's command, we begin.

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["WANNA BE STARTIN' SOMETHIN"' PLAYING]

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# You wanna be startin' somethin' #

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# You got to be startin' somethin' #

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# You wanna be startin' somethin' #

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CHORUS: # Startin' somethin' #

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# Hard to get over # CHORUS: # Yeah, yeah #

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# Yeah, yeah #

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# Stuck in the middle # # Yeah, yeah #

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# And the pain is thunder # # Yeah, yeah #

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# Hard to get over # # Yeah, yeah #

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# Too low to get under # # Yeah, yeah #

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# Stuck in the middle # # Yeah, yeah #

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# And the pain is thunder # # Yeah, yeah #

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# You love to pretend That you're good #

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# When you're always Up to no good #

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# So your tongue became a razor #

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# Someone's always # # Tryin' #

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# To start my baby # # Cryin' #

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# Lyin' #

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# Now baby's Slowly dyin' #

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# Startin' somethin' #

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# You got to be # # Startin' somethin' #

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# I said you wanna be # # Startin' somethin' #

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# Startin' somethin' #

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# Hard to get over # # Yeah, yeah #

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# Yeah, yeah #

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# Stuck in the middle # # Yeah, yeah #

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# And the pain is thunder # # Yeah, yeah #

Duration

107 seconds

Views

814

Timestamp in Movie

00:03:28

Uploaded

Oct 26, 2021

Genres

documentary, drama, music

Production

N/A

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Movie Summary

A compilation of interviews, rehearsals, and backstage footage of Michael Jackson as he prepared for his series of sold-out shows in London.