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Re: John Landis - Top Secret Thriller Project!!!! Coming 2017
Thriller is a great album. It's the best-selling album of all time. It remains a benchmark for what pop music is capable of. No other album in the history of the recording industry has come close to reaching its sales, and it's incredibly doubtful that any album ever will.
All of that information has been ground into the dirt at this point. The media has established Thriller as revolutionary on almost a weekly basis. Walk around and ask people if they've heard the title track or "Billie Jean" or "Beat It" or "Human Nature" or "P.Y.T." and you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who says no. Everyone is well aware of the impact Thriller made.
But Michael Jackson has five other adult studio albums, four of which rank among the best-selling of all time and hold records of their own in terms of worldwide sales and single sales. They deserve the praise more than Thriller does.
If the Michael Jackson Estate were to never mention Thriller again, it would continue to randomly chart on worldwide charts and continue to rack up sales. This isn't the case for Dangerous or History - without recognition, they fade into the background.
Thriller has been shining for thirty-four years. Let it go for a while.
An album by Michael Jackson happens to be the biggest selling EVER. Of course that needs celebrating. It should be celebrated more IMHO.
I get that people have varying tastes when it comes to music. I get that some fans prefer OTW, BAD, or Dangerous to Thriller. But I don't get fans complaining and moaning about "yet another milking" of THE BIGGEST SELLING ALBUM OF ALL TIME.
Thriller is a great album. It's the best-selling album of all time. It remains a benchmark for what pop music is capable of. No other album in the history of the recording industry has come close to reaching its sales, and it's incredibly doubtful that any album ever will.
All of that information has been ground into the dirt at this point. The media has established Thriller as revolutionary on almost a weekly basis. Walk around and ask people if they've heard the title track or "Billie Jean" or "Beat It" or "Human Nature" or "P.Y.T." and you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who says no. Everyone is well aware of the impact Thriller made.
But Michael Jackson has five other adult studio albums, four of which rank among the best-selling of all time and hold records of their own in terms of worldwide sales and single sales. They deserve the praise more than Thriller does.
If the Michael Jackson Estate were to never mention Thriller again, it would continue to randomly chart on worldwide charts and continue to rack up sales. This isn't the case for Dangerous or History - without recognition, they fade into the background.
Thriller has been shining for thirty-four years. Let it go for a while.