Mexico Attemps 'Thriller' Dancing World Record

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If anything positive can come from the death of Michael Jackson, it's the above video.

There is a definitive je ne se qua about Jackson's dance in his music video Thriller - something that is memorizing and kind of wonderful that will make even the most conservative person want to get up and dance like a zombie.

On Saturday, 12,937 people in Mexico City attempted to break the world record for the largest number of people dancing to Thriller simultaneously. The Guinness Book of World Records will decide sometime next week whether or not it breaks the previous record set by 242 students from the College of William & Mary in Virginia last May.

Of his music video, Jackson was once quoted as saying, "Well, it was a delicate thing to work on because I remember my original approach was, 'How do you make zombies and monsters dance without it being comical?' So I said, 'We have to do just the right kind of movement so it doesn't become something that you laugh at.' But it just has to take it to another level. So I got in a room with Michael Peters, and he and I together kind of imagined how these zombies move by making faces in the mirror. I used to come to rehearsal sometimes with monster makeup on, and I loved doing that. So he and I collaborated and we both choreographed the piece and I thought it should start like that kind of thing and go into this jazzy kind of step, you know. Kind of gruesome things like that, not too much ballet or whatever."