The older I get, the more I see my favourite artists catalogues as just one long continuous piece of music, just split into different chapters. Especially with an artist like MJ, who very much had his own sound. I mean, nobody else could get away with a song like The Lost Children or Speechless. Those are Michael Jackson songs through and through. And those songs could've been on HIStory or Dangerous and they'd have fit right in. Same with Unbreakable or Whatever Happens.
Too much focus is put on pitting albums against eachother and the only thing that suceeds in doing is limiting your own enjoyment of an artists work.
To me, YRMW is a natural continuation from a song like RTT. Songs like Break of Dawn and Butterflies are from the same school of classy soul as Human Nature and Lady In My Life. The opening three Darkchild cuts are like a modern 00s take on the hard-hitting NJS songs which occupy the first half of Dangerous. Speechless belongs in the canon of great, orchestral, almost showtune-esque MJ ballads along with Childhood and She's Out Of My Life.
This is how I see MJ's work these days. It's not about "this is an Invincible song, this is a Thriller song." They're all just Michael Jackson songs to me. Some I enjoy more than others, but take away the shortfilms and try and detach yourself from the nostalgia and I think you'll find that Invincible has just as many worthy additions to MJ's catalogue as any of his other albums.