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Many memorable music videos have made history with a file entry Billion View Club (BVC), an exclusive video club that contains more than billion views on Youtube. The first to achieve this was the video clip Gangnam style to PSYfor more than a decade.
In 2022 alone, more than 50 music videos gained their first 1 billion views. between them, Cyndi Lauperwhich reached the core teacher for the first time with Girls just want to have fun39 years after its initial release (although it was not uploaded to Youtube until 2009).
The last video he managed to join the famous club was They don’t care about us to Michael Jackson. It is a protest song and remains one of the most controversial songs Jackson ever composed.
It was originally released in 1996 as a single from the King of Pop’s ninth studio album, History: Past, Present, and Future, Book One. The song was accompanied by two music videos, which were directed by the American Spike Lee.
The first of these, the one that achieved 1 billion copies, was recorded in two locations in Brazil. nobody was in pelorinho, the historic center of Salvador. two in one favela from Rio de Janeiro His name is Dona Marta. In the clip we can see Jackson walking the streets accompanied by Brazilian children and teenagers playing the drums.
However, the video industry has been plagued by controversy, such as The Brazilian government tried to ban all production Fearing that it would harm their image, the region, and Rio de Janeiro’s prospects for hosting the 2004 Olympics. However, the people of the region were happy to see the singer, hoping to solve their problems. Make it visible to a wider audience.
Michael Jackson – They Don’t Care About Us (Brazilian Version) (Official Video)
The song’s second video, which was intended to show human rights violations around the world, was Shot in prison. These images were interspersed with images of the Ku Klux Klan, with images of attacks on American taxi driver Rodney King by several Los Angeles police officers in 1991 or with samples from the Chinese protests in Tiananmen Square at the end of the decade. the eighties
Jackson II video on BVC
This is the artist’s second music video to join BVC. The first was Billy Jeanwhich currently has over 1.3 billion views on the digital platform.
They don’t care about uswhich came after his sister’s collaboration Janet Jackson in Scream After success you are not aloneonly peaked at number 30 on the Billboard Hot 100, but sparked interest again years later as it was used during the Black Lives Matter movement’s racist protests in 2014, 2015 and 2020.
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