Do you realize that saying that the recording of OTW was his happiest period does not equal to saying that it was his best album?
I never said it was the same/equal
I really don't see why this is a big issue for
everyone has a favorite or felt something they done was their best out of anything else that has preceded or followed
his entire musical message as an adult solo artist, it all started from Off The Wall, he expanded on that message for each and every album that followed.....and considering how terrible R&B music is now, if OTW was released in 2015 instead of 1979, I'm confident it will sell more now than it actually did then......
from an esoterical approach, w/out his fans from the 90s to the present realizing, after the Bad album, he always tried to regain the same level of authenticity he created with OTW, this is why he started working with Teddy Riley for the Dangerous Album, and Rodney Jerkins with Invincible, and the Dallas Austins, the Jimmy Jam and TErry Lewis's, the R. Kelly's of the world for the History album.....
He made allot of great music throughout his solo career, but it shouldn't be a dispute to suggest that the artist himself considered one of his albums his best....
I really don't understand why this is such a issue for.....
outside of MJ, there is a ton of artists who best album was their very first and still had longstanding careers