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58334785Though Janet Jackson had not performed the choreography from “Scream” since she and her brother Michael shot the video in 1995, it couldn’t have been a more fitting tribute to him. Jackson talked about the making of that video along with how she prepared for the Video Music Awards in the half-hour special “The Making of Janet Jackson’s VMA Tribute Performance,” which aired on September 19.

According to Janet, “Scream” was a turning point for Michael, who used the video to express frustration over his legal troubles. ” ‘Scream,’ there was so much going on at that time,” Jackson recalled. “That’s when the I hate to say this but — the first allegations [of child molestation] came out and the whole bit. He was very upset and very angry and he had so much pent up in him that he wanted to get out and say. And when you listen to the lyrics, that’s what it’s about.”

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This interview was taken from: www.cinemablend.com

Travis Payne

This Is It is being sold, yes, as a chronicle of the last moments of Michael Jackson’s life. But it’s also an interesting story about artistic collaboration, making real characters out of people like director Kenny Ortega, musical director Michael Bearden, and choreographer Travis Payne, all of whom are seen in the film working with Jackson and the rest of the crew, putting their heads together to create a spectacle like none other.

Payne, who first worked with Jackson as a dancer in 1992′s video for “Remember The Time,” talked to me last week about how Jackson is different from any other artist he’s ever worked with, how he decided that the rehearsal footage should be seen in public, and the side of Michael he knew, separate from the public persona. You can see Payne, Jackson and all the others in This Is It, in theaters everywhere today.

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You’ve said Michael Jackson is more collaborative than anyone you’ve worked with. How does he stand apart from everyone else?

Travis Payne: We were able to communicate in a way that I can’t with every artist that I work with. It definitely made it more difficult for me, because he was very demanding. He wasn’t going to just settle for steps. Everything had a place, and everything had a meaning. That was a welcome challenge to me, because it definitely made me stretch and grow as an artist, and be able to present him with ideas that I’m proud of, then me being able to add more to it, and it just keeps going. It’s a true collaboration, as opposed to being paid to come in and create a few steps for a song.

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When you came back to work on “This Is It,” were you concerned at all that he would be able to keep up with all the work?

Travis Payne: Not at all. I knew that Michael Jackson danced every day. He sang every day, though it would not be in front of thousands of people. He was always creating. That is like fuel to an artist. It was just now, recently, that he decided he was ready to share these new ideas with the world. It was just second nature to him. He was always looking for new sounds and trying new ideas. He came with an entire arsenal of things to share when we started this process again.

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