By FITSNews || If there’s one thing we learned during the 1980s, it’s that nothing defuses violence (or preoccupies Zombies) quite like tightly-choreographed group dancing.
Well, we also learned that nothing made the ladies at E.L. Wright Middle School in Columbia, S.C. swoon quite like a young stud in an authentic Michael Jackson “Beat It” jacket – and parachute pants.
Awww yeah …
Seriously, people …”Beat It” was one of those iconic eighties moments when everything just came together. Motown. Van Halen. MTV. And of course a tribute to West Side Story.
And no, we’re not at all embarrassed to have loved every minute of it.
Our founding editor?
Turns out he loved it a little bit too much, and as a result is about to be really, really embarrassed.
UPDATE: Waiting …
UPDATE II: Still waiting …
UPDATE III: Oh no … no no.
By waiting February 23, 2010 at 9:41 pm
Come on it can’t be that bad!
By OhNoNotAgain February 23, 2010 at 10:47 pm
Well, Willie, those pants are certainly “slick.” Glittery gleemy slick.
By sid February 23, 2010 at 11:41 pm
Yup. It’s that bad.
By sid February 23, 2010 at 11:51 pm
But if it makes you feel any better, Sic, I once saw Stiv Bators wearing pretty much the same jacket (MJ’s, not yours) during a Dead Boys reunion show. Of course, he was addicted to heroin, so he at least had an excuse.