I have to confess that through me being lazy at the time, I never bought Invincible. And now I can not find a copy of it anymore. All I have is the 3 songs I bought off itunes, You Rock my World, Cry and Butterflies and I love them all. To me they are a grown up Michael and his voice is still on point. Rock my World is a great up tempo, dancey pop track, Butterlies a gorgeous silky neo soul ballad and finally Cry is a convincing "Heal the World type" ballad in my mind. After reading the comments, I seem more put off than ever, but I am still going to track down a copy.
Seems to me the songs Xscape and Blue Gangsta were pretty good (Lets be honest, they were amazing!!!) and thus every other song on Invincible must have been hot, if these failed the cut (Maybe they were too good). I know this post makes me look really naive and fake, but i swear I have every other album and even like the album Michael (Whether its Malachi mash ups and Cascios vocals on Keep your head up, I don't mind, they are great songs and I really love Breaking News). I am going to try and get a copy of Invincible and judge it for myself, because there is very little MJ music I do not like. I think that any album by him would at least have 5 or 6 decent to great songs.
I get the feeling, this length of this album was much larger than all the others and there was some filler, but whereas the Motown albums, OTW, Thriller and Bad all had 11 or less songs, Dangerous had 14 and History 15, so the 17 here is hardly excessive. Besides if you compare it to Prince's misguided Rave un2 the Joy fantastic that came out in 1999, his chance at being commercial again with 6 or 7 duets and sappy neo soul and R and B autotunes, that was so bad in flopping it killed off Clive Davis's career at Arista (He does not mention it in his biography, except waxing Rhapsodically about Supernatural the Santana smash). And I believe that Rock my world was a Top 10 hit and #1 in some places and that the other singles all charted.
I would blame its lack of success on the fact, that by 2001 many people had moved on from Michael Jackson and were getting into rubbishy Idol type music and boybands like 5ive, Nsync, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.
Anyway would it be worth me getting it? I mean I like the Michael album and a lot of people slag that off for reasons other than the Cascio tracks as well.