Anoop Desai Sings Beat It – Michael Jackson

Watch Anoop Desai perform Beat It during the Top 13 Michael Jackson theme round on American Idol Season 8.

He did try some sparse variations unlike what Kara mentioned, but they just weren’t good enough to lift it beyond a karaoke performance. The problem is more with the song and its chorus – unless you really do a complete overhaul of the song, you’re hardly ever going to sound anything but karaoke. And any performance of this song without the Eddie Van Halen solo pretty much halves the song-value.

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