I've never seen this before, was up on yahoo when I returned home tonight.
Prisoners Of Love: The New "Thriller" Re-enactment
Posted Sat Jun 27, 2009 3:41pm PDT by Billy Altman in Stop The Presses!
Talk about deja view all over again.
Earlier today, the 1,500 orange-jumpsuit-clad inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention & Rehabilitation Center on the east coast of Cebu Island in the Philippines reprised their phenomenally popular 2007 viral performance of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" in tribute to the King Of Pop, who died Thursday.
Video (0:46): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A98v...layer_embedded
The original four-minute Web-smash video, you may recall, stemmed from an experimental program started by local security consultant Byron Garcia, which added synchronized dancing to the prison's exercise programs in the hopes of spurring better attendance and more involved participation. And judging by the results, it was certainly a success, as Garcia's post of the convicts' conga lines cavorting a la Jackson and his legion of undulating undead became an immediate phenomenon, drawing over 24 million hits--a million of them in the 24-hour period following the news of Jackson's death.
Video (4:26): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMnk7...layer_embedded
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http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/sto...-re-enactment/