Eddie Van Halen deconstructs his collaboration on 'Beat It'

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by frazod

It's really something being old enough to remember when Michael Jackson was cool. And black. And human.

I truly believe that Beat It was the last time I found him 'cool.' Even then it was 'wimpy cool.'

After that, even with the Thriller vid, moving into Bad and Man in the Mirror, etc., he was already talented but weird. I was just 12-13 and I knew that him going to the movies with a real live actual girl, as in Thriller, was what the LA types called 'creative licence.'

The 'black or white' facial morphs was cool tech, but skinny wimp Michael beating the **** out of an abandoned Impala was just strange. 'Man, he's really mad at that crappy car.'