There's lots to unpack, and more time (and another viewing) is required, but one thing folks are still gobsmacked over is the sheer scale of the production, made possible with nearly 100 dancers and band members who helped the pop star bring her homecoming to life.
-- with the help of the pop star Jewel, who is the proud owner of several platinum records and her own humanitarian foundation that attempts "to inspire positive change on global, community and individual levels".
Watch these clips, old and new, and maybe buy the record and help make the pop charts less completely lame!
Like the competition, the system creates a bokeh-style effect to simulate the shallow depth-of-field you get on high end cameras, to help the subject pop.
All objects have depth, and the bold-colored outlines, found in so many cartoons today, help the graphics "pop out" more, if that makes any sense at all.
Using a spotlight or changing camera angle may help the inscription "pop".
"I don't think of myself as being a feminist," she says, when I ask if the movement's latest wave has helped change the pop industry.
In the last few years, a coterie of R & B producers -- led by Timbaland, along with She'kspere and Rodney Jerkins -- have helped reinvent the pop wheel, retrofitting familiar tunes with off-center arrangements built around clusters of syncopated beats.
The pair, helped by the pop star's finance and Taylor's management skills, took the club from the fourth division to the top flight in the years up to 1987.
At its strongest, the show helped launch the pop and country music careers of "Idol" winners Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood and Fantasia Barrino.
