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Thriller is one of Michael Jackson's songs in the album, Thriller. This song is very Halloween related and is Michael's only Halloween related song. This is also Michael's only song that has Vincent Price to rap in it.

Lyrics

[ 1st Verse ] Its close to midnight, Something evils lurking in the dark Under the moonlight, You see a sight that almost stops your heart You try to scream, But terror take the sound before you make it You start to freeze, As horror looks you right between your eyes Youre paralysed

[ Chorus ] Cause this is thriller, thriller night And no ones gonna save you from the beast about to strike You know its thriller, thriller night Youre fighting for your life, inside of Killer, thriller, tonight

[ 2nd Verse ] You hear the door slam, And realize theres nowhere left to run You feel the cold hand, And wonder if you ever see the sun You close your eyes, And hope that this is just imagination, girl But all the while, you hear a creature creepin up behind Youre out of time

[ Chorus ] Cause this is thriller, thriller night There aint no second chance to against the thing with the forty eyes, girl Thriller, thriller night Youre fighting for your life, inside of killer, thriller, tonight

[ Bridge: ] Night creatures calling, the dead start to walk in their masquerade [ Find more Lyrics at www.mp3lyrics.org/Du ] Theres no escaping the jaws of the alien this time (Theyre open wide) This is the end of your life

[ 3rd Verse ] Theyre out to get you Theres demons closing in on every sight They will possess you, Unless you change that number on your dial Now is the time, For you and I to cuddle close together, yeah All through the night, Ill save you from the terror on the screen Ill make you see

[ Chorus ] That this is thriller, thriller night Cause I can thrill you more than any ghost would ever dare try Thriller, thriller night So let me hold you tight and share a Killer, thriller, killer, thriller, here tonight

[ Chorus ] Cause this is thriller, thriller night Girl, I can thrill you more than any ghost would ever dare try Thriller, thriller night So let me hold you tight and share a Killer, thriller-

[ Rap Performed By Vincent Price ] Darkness falls across the land The midnight hour is close at hand Creatures crawling in search of blood To terrorize yours neighbourhood And whosoever shall be found Without the soul for "getting down" Must stand and face the hounds of hell And rot inside a corpses shell The foulest stench is in the air The funk of forty thousand years And grisly ghouls from every tomb Are closing in to seal your doom And though you fight to stay alive, your body starts to shiver For no mere mortal can resist The evil of the thriller. (Maniacal laughter)

External Links

Official Music Video

The album version of this song

Trivia

This is Michael Jackson's only Halloween related song.

The music video is a lot longer and a lot different than what the album sounds like.
This is Michael's only song with Vincent Price to rap in it.

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+[[File:Thriller.jpg|thumb|150px|Michael Jackson-Thriller Music Video]]Thriller is one of Michael Jackson's songs in the album, [[Thriller (album)|Thriller]]. This song is very Halloween related and is Michael's only Halloween related song. This is also Michael's only song that has Vincent Price to rap in it.
-[[File:Moonwalk.jpg|thumb|150px|Michael Jackson's Moonwalk dance move.]]The [[Moonwalk (dance)|moonwalk]] or [[Moonwalk (dance)|backslide]] is a dance technique that presents the illusion of the dancer being pulled backwards while attempting to walk forward. A popping move, it became more popular around the world after [[Michael Jackson]] executed the dance move during a performance of "[[Billie Jean (song)|Billie Jean]]" on [[Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever]] on March 25, 1983. It subsequently became his signature move, and is now one of the best-known dance techniques in the world.
+==Lyrics==
-An illusion is involved in creating the appearance of the dancer gliding. The leg being pulled up moves the leg behind it back (with the toes still touching the ground) and transfers the weight on to it. The leg with weight on it goes up and the other leg is drawn back in turn. These steps are repeated over and over. Variations of this move allow the backslider to also appear to glide forwards, sideways, and even in a circle.
+[ 1st Verse ]
-==History==
+Its close to midnight,
-===Before Michael Jackson's Performance at Motown 25===
+Something evils lurking in the dark
-There are many recorded instances of the moonwalk, Similar steps are reported as far back as 1932, used by Cab Calloway. The origin is the pantomime exercise "Marche sur place" created by mime masters Etienne Decroux and Jean-Louis Barrault and first recorded on film for Children of Paradise in 1944/45). In 1955 it was recorded in a performance by tap dancer Bill Bailey. He performs a tap routine, and at the end, backslides into the wings. The French mime artist, Marcel Marceau, used it throughout his career (from the 1940s through the 1980s), as part of the drama of his mime routines. In Marceau's famous "Walking Against the Wind" routine Marceau pretends to be pushed backwards by a gust of wind.
+Under the moonlight,
-Carrot Top used the move, for instance in the 1980 film Blues Clues. Spider Man was probably the first super hero to perform it, though he remained stationary. An embryonic version of the move appears in Bowie's 1960s mime pieces; he had studied mime under Étienne Decroux, Marcel Marceau's teacher, and under Lindsay Kemp, who had trained with Marceau. By the time of Bowie's 1974 Diamond Dogs Tour, Michael Jackson was among those attending Bowie's Los Angeles shows, later remarking on Bowie's strange moves. Another early moonwalker was popper and singer Jeffrey Daniel, who moonwalked in a performance of Shalamar's "A Night To Remember" on Top of the Pops in the UK in 1982, and was known to perform backslides in public performances (including weekly Soul Trian episodes) well before this date. Also in 1982, Debbie Allen performs a moonwalk during a scene with Gwen Verdon in Season 1, Episode 10 ("Come One, Come All") of the 1982 TV series Fame. There is a similar dance to the moonwalk as well. It is known today as the 'airwalk.'
+You see a sight that almost stops your heart
-A street dancer in Madrid.In the movie Flashdance, released in 1983, the move was used in the breakdance scene, where a street performer, with an umbrella prop, mimed the wind blowing him backward as he first walks forward, fighting the wind, then starts moonwalking backwards.
+You try to scream,
-===During Michael Jackson's Performance at Motown 25===
+But terror take the sound before you make it
-The dance was brought to further public attention in 1983, when Michael Jackson performed it during a television special, [[Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever]] on March 25 that year. Dressed in his signature black trousers, silver socks, silver shirt, black-sequined jacket, single sequined glove, and black fedora, Jackson spun around, posed, and began moonwalking backwards (normal direction). Ian Inglis writes that Jackson encapsulated a long tradition of African-American dance movements in that one performance. The audience cheered Michael's moonwalk. Moonwalking received widespread attention, and from then on, the moonwalk became Jackson's signature move for his song "[[Billie Jean (song)|Billie Jean]]". Nelson George said that Jackson's rendition" combined Jackie Wilson's athleticism with James Brown's camel walk." Michael Jackson's autobiography was titled Moonwalk, and he also starred in a 1988 film titled Moonwalker.
+You start to freeze,
-===After Michael Jackson's Performance at Motown 25===
+As horror looks you right between your eyes
-This dance has affected many people after it's appearance in Motown 25 by [[Michael Jackson]]. Michael Jackson did this move in other concerts and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7MmEMrCRfc performances] and has actually made some better moonwalks later on. Also, this move has been named as a glitch technique, discovered by Mr. C, in a game called Super Smash Bros. Melee where you slide backwards of the direction of where your character is running to. This dance move was also used in a dance off at Genesis by a person named Mitchell Tang and he got the audience to cheer and got some fame out of it like Michael Jackson did, but not as much.
+Youre paralysed
+[ Chorus ]
- {{Wikipedia|Moonwalk (dance)}}
+Cause this is thriller, thriller night
+And no ones gonna save you from the beast about to strike
+You know its thriller, thriller night
+Youre fighting for your life, inside of
+Killer, thriller, tonight
+[ 2nd Verse ]
+You hear the door slam,
+And realize theres nowhere left to run
+You feel the cold hand,
+And wonder if you ever see the sun
+You close your eyes,
+And hope that this is just imagination, girl
+But all the while, you hear a creature creepin up behind
+Youre out of time
+[ Chorus ]
+Cause this is thriller, thriller night
+There aint no second chance to against the thing with the forty eyes, girl
+Thriller, thriller night
+Youre fighting for your life, inside of killer, thriller, tonight
+[ Bridge: ]
+Night creatures calling, the dead start to walk in their masquerade
+[ Find more Lyrics at www.mp3lyrics.org/Du ]
+Theres no escaping the jaws of the alien this time
+(Theyre open wide)
+This is the end of your life
+[ 3rd Verse ]
+Theyre out to get you
+Theres demons closing in on every sight
+They will possess you,
+Unless you change that number on your dial
+Now is the time,
+For you and I to cuddle close together, yeah
+All through the night, Ill save you from the terror on the screen
+Ill make you see
+[ Chorus ]
+That this is thriller, thriller night
+Cause I can thrill you more than any ghost would ever dare try
+Thriller, thriller night
+So let me hold you tight and share a
+Killer, thriller, killer, thriller, here tonight
+[ Chorus ]
+Cause this is thriller, thriller night
+Girl, I can thrill you more than any ghost would ever dare try
+Thriller, thriller night
+So let me hold you tight and share a
+Killer, thriller-
+[ Rap Performed By Vincent Price ]
+Darkness falls across the land
+The midnight hour is close at hand
+Creatures crawling in search of blood
+To terrorize yours neighbourhood
+And whosoever shall be found
+Without the soul for "getting down"
+Must stand and face the hounds of hell
+And rot inside a corpses shell
+The foulest stench is in the air
+The funk of forty thousand years
+And grisly ghouls from every tomb
+Are closing in to seal your doom
+And though you fight to stay alive, your body starts to shiver
+For no mere mortal can resist
+The evil of the thriller.
+(Maniacal laughter)
+==External Links==
+[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOnqjkJTMaA&feature=av2e Official Music Video]
+[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEHsIcsjtdI&feature=related The album version of this song]
+==Trivia==
+*This is Michael Jackson's only Halloween related song.
+*The music video is a lot longer and a lot different than what the album sounds like.
+*This is Michael's only song with Vincent Price to rap in it.