MJ-UPBEAT
July 26, 2006
MTV and The Streets make longest music video to displace 'Thriller'!
British rapper Mike Skinner, better known as garage band The Streets, has created the longest-ever music video, set to displace Michael Jackson's "Thriller", the global music broadcaster MTV said.
Skinner and the television channel teamed up to make the 20-minute video to celebrate MTV's 25th anniversary.
MTV gave five of its viewers each a video camera and asked them to film whatever they wished, resulting in a cheerleading spoof, a catalogue of clumsiness, and one video that attempts to follow the trail of folklore beast Bigfoot.
Skinner has used the videos to inspire a new track, due to air for the first time on August 1, aimed at surpassing the legendary 14-minute "Thriller" launched in 1983.
MJTKOP has found a small problem with MTV and The Streets' claims however, although the video may be longer than Thriller, The Guiness Book Of World Records Still lists Michael Jackson's 'Ghosts'(1996) as the Longest Music Video at 35 minutes long.
Quote: Longest Music Video
Michael Jackson's part feature film, part music video, Ghosts (USA, 1996), is 35 min long and was based on an original concept by horror writer Stephen King. Jackson plays five different roles in the video, directed by Stan Winston.
I am afraid that MTV and The Streets have still got another 15 minutes or so if they want to be the LONGEST music video, sorry to rain on you parade guys but the King Of Pop still holds the record for the Longest Music Video.
Source:MJTKOP.COM/AFP /paul(mjcool)