00:03There are two things in the music business, before Thriller and after Thriller.
00:11Thriller set the standard of what it was to be a Megastar.
00:15Michael had such a clear vision of what he wanted.
00:17He was determined to change the way he was perceived.
00:21I came in angry. He was a perfectionist.
00:24I wanted the best.
00:26I look in the mirror and I take the biggest selling album of all time.
00:30The greatest singers do what the music tells them to do.
00:33Everybody waiting to see the next big Michael Jackson album.
00:39As a matter of fact, I asked what Mama Say, Mama Sa, Mama Kusai meant.
00:43It don't mean nothing, just sing it.
00:47He had the ambition to become the biggest star in the world and he did it.
00:52You could feel the excitement in the room, knowing that we were doing something better.
00:57There was a sense of culture.
00:58It felt like he's rocking with us.
01:00We can dance to his music.
01:01He saw value in street culture.
01:03Popping, locking.
01:04No one had ever put those elements together.
01:06Nobody's seen the moonwalk.
01:10He just laid a bomb on that room.
01:25He wanted to go out and tour for Thriller, but Joseph Jackson had other ideas.
01:35It's the ultimate blueprint to modern pop music.
01:38It was probably everything that I ever loved in one.
01:41Michael's gone from being a pop star to phenomenal.
01:44If Thriller came out today, it would still be the greatest album ever made.
02:01He was a convertor.
02:01He says, hey, must do it.
02:02He said, hey, my God.
02:03He said, hey, Shane, can you take care of that?
02:03He said, hey, what do you need to do?
02:04He said, hey, see what do you need to do?
02:05He said, come on.
