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I was having a discussion with a very good friend of mine a day or two ago. So as we discussed in length about the recent Off The Wall documentary which he (not being an MJ) thought the Off The Wall was probably the 'greatest' album that pushed the sonics of popular music in the postmodern era. I being a fan said that I wasn't particularly disagreeing with him, but then he went into a full scale rant about how MJ rode the tales of Off The Wall with Thriller and that MUSICALLY speaking there wasn't much mj did after Off The Wall that was MUSICALLY groundbreaking.
He talked a lot about the Beatles being revolutionary for their albums, Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band both pushing the boundaries of songwriting like production and studio techniques like looping and lyrical ambiguity and album-orientated rock music. He explained that Elvis combining rockabilly, country, blues, gospel and rock-n-roll to a white audience. He pointed out that Bob Dylan's folk music was influential. And also others like The Ramones (punk), Black Sabbath (hard-rock), Rakim (rapping technique multi-syllable) Public Enemy (hip hop production), and that James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, Parliament/Funkadelic (funk) were clear in their musical groundbreaking efforts.
I couldn't really think of what bar music videos, dancing and fashion what mj post Off The Wall was influential for MUSICALLY.
Can someone please explain how post Off The Wall MUSICALLY MJ was groundbreaking?
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LET'S CLEAR THINGS UP;
Innovate - to do something in a new way : to have new ideas about how something can be done
Influence - the power to change or affect someone or something : the power to cause changes without directly forcing them to happen
: a person or thing that affects someone or something in an important way
Groundbreaking - introducing new ideas or methods
These terms seem similar in meaning to me, so I think it's safe to say we don't need to get into petty arguments about semantics.
He talked a lot about the Beatles being revolutionary for their albums, Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band both pushing the boundaries of songwriting like production and studio techniques like looping and lyrical ambiguity and album-orientated rock music. He explained that Elvis combining rockabilly, country, blues, gospel and rock-n-roll to a white audience. He pointed out that Bob Dylan's folk music was influential. And also others like The Ramones (punk), Black Sabbath (hard-rock), Rakim (rapping technique multi-syllable) Public Enemy (hip hop production), and that James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, Parliament/Funkadelic (funk) were clear in their musical groundbreaking efforts.
I couldn't really think of what bar music videos, dancing and fashion what mj post Off The Wall was influential for MUSICALLY.
Can someone please explain how post Off The Wall MUSICALLY MJ was groundbreaking?
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LET'S CLEAR THINGS UP;
Innovate - to do something in a new way : to have new ideas about how something can be done
Influence - the power to change or affect someone or something : the power to cause changes without directly forcing them to happen
: a person or thing that affects someone or something in an important way
Groundbreaking - introducing new ideas or methods
These terms seem similar in meaning to me, so I think it's safe to say we don't need to get into petty arguments about semantics.
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