Oprah: (applauding) Well, I saw it live, I saw it live, I saw it live. And so you took it from the kids who were doing it.
Michael: Yeah, because, um, I think they are the real dancers.
Oprah: Yeah! And when you are, for instance, when we were here before, when we were here before to shoot that commercial, you were--
Michael: You were supposed to do this with me! (laughing)
Oprah: I don't know how to do this!
Michael: (laughing)
Oprah: You know I don't know how to do this!
Michael: (laughs)
Oprah: You know what? I mean all the things that were printed in the tabloids, the only thing that's ever been true was when they said I couldn't dance. Now that's the truth!Michael: (laughs)
Oprah: When we were here the last time shooting the commercial, you were like in between shots running off and conceiving the dance, choreographing the dance, you were up all night dancing.
Michael: For the Super Bowl.
Oprah: Yes, yes.
Michael: Yes, well, I'm never satisfied. Even when I see something that I've done and people say oh it was so phenomenal - when I did Motown 25 and I did the Moonwalk for the first time, I was backstage crying afterwards.
Oprah: Why?
Michael: Because I was unhappy.
Oprah: You cried after Motown 25??
Michael: After Motown 25, yes. But, then as I was walking to the car there was this little boy, he was like 12, was a little Jewish kid, and he said, "OOOO, you were amazing. Who taught you to ever dance like that?". And for the first time, I felt I did a good job, because I know children don't lie and I just felt so good about it then.
Oprah: You wanted to, you felt so good, you probably wanted to say- (imitating Michael) HEH-HEH!Michael: (laughs) Heh-heh!
Oprah: I want you to sing something acapella for me, if you can.
Michael: Oh, no! What could I sing?
Oprah: Who is it, you know do that whole little beat thing, since we're here in the theater.
Michael: Um, oh, boy, what could I sing? Who Is It?
Oprah: Where did that Heh-heh thing come from? Heh-heh.
Michael: Heh-heh! (starts the beat and makes instrument sounds to Who Is It?) (sings) I gave my money, I gave my time, I gave her everything in life one heart could find. It doesn't seem to matter and it doesn't seem right, but the will has brought no fortune, still I cry alone at night. Don't you judge of my composure cause I'm bothered every day, and she didn't leave a letter, she just up and ran away.
Oprah: OOOWWWW! Fabulous!
Michael: I mean, you wanted me to do it! I get embarrassed. I'm sorry. I get embarrassed.
Oprah: I like it very much. Thank you very much for that. We're going to come right back with more of Michael Jackson live. That was GREAT! (hugs Michael)
[Cut to clips for intermission]
Oprah: One of the reasons we wanted to look at that piece when we went to break there was because music videos used to be you, used to just be people singing their song until you came along and changed music videos. Did you know when you first conceived your first one that's what you were doing?Michael: Yeah. The idea was to make something that was a story so it had a beginning, a middle and an ending.
Oprah: Uh-huh.
Michael: So it felt like a mini movie, that's what I wanted to do. And that is what we did with Beat It and Thriller and Smooth Criminal and all those type of things.
Oprah: So when you start to look at a piece of work or look at a piece of music, are you already thinking about how you are going to --
Michael : Sometimes, yes, that is very true.
Oprah: Uh-huh. I wonder what it feels like, I will never know since I cannot sing one thing, but, what it feels like to be on stage with a sea of people, a sea of people. One of the things that has impressed me in putting the pieces together for you, is all around the world, the response to you is so incredible. I just wanted to, for the rest of you in the world who haven't seen how people respond to Michael Jackson to take a look.
[Cut to concert clips and crowd scenes from around the world, with Will You Be There playing as background music.]
