*sigh*
Ugh, THANK YOU.
MattyJam, let me put it this way. While I consider myself to be relatively knowledgable about music (certainly the bigger artists), I'm much more knowledgable about film than I am with music. I could talk about in reasonable detail why Citizen Kane, for example, was so technically groundbreaking when it came out in 1942.
With music though, unfortunately I'm not as educated and while I've read on here that his music was groundbreaking, I have struggled to articulate why past the "oh its one of the greatest pop songs in history!". Like, I know some of them are and they're amongst my favourite pop songs, but I want to know how and why exactly.
See what I just posted about The Beatles? In my post I linked to a few discussions about their music, in which the significance and groundbreaking aspects of their music is discussed by multiple people. I've seen a lot of people do that for The Beatles and that's why I can talk about them more than Michael.
Let's do that for Michael but in more detail! So Billie Jean is considered one of the greatest pop songs of all time. Awesome! Let's pull that song and the
rest of his music apart and investigate
how and
why it's considered that! What is so groundbreaking about some of his lyrics, what studio techniques did Michael pioneer in his music that was groundbreaking at the time, was he one of the first major artists to apply a certain concept to his song, especially one that has continued to be influential to this day? Etc etc. Honestly if people actually did this in depth, this could become one of the most educating and fascinating topics discussed on this fanboard in a long time.
I haven't read most of the posts for the past page or two, so I'll go check them out now and see what people have posted