Albums:
- Working Day and Night and Get On The Floor should have been released as singles. They were both potential top 10 hits, at least.
- The Girl Is Mine doesn’t work as duet between McCartney and Michael. Either it should have been a solo song or a duet with an artist that was closer to Michael in age.
- Thriller should have had another song. Behind the Mask, Got The Hots maybe.
- Moonwalker Smooth Criminal version should have been released on the Bad album. It makes the song less repetitive.
- Someone Put Your Hand Out and She Got It have been released on Dangerous in place of Can’t Let Her Get Away & She Drives Me Wild.
- Gone Too Soon is a wonderful song but it should have been a one off single, in stead of being released on the Dangerous album.
- Come Together is a boring song that sounds way out of place on History album. Also, Smile felt out of place on the album. Morphine and In The Back should have been on the album in their place.
- Even though I like most songs on Invincible, it feels over the place. It’s obvious that Michael’s heart wasn’t in it.
- Some of Michael’s songs, especially on the later albums were way too long. Not ever song had to be 5-6 minutes long.
- Michael’s latter albums repeated the same formula. Opening the album with an uptempo song, one rock song and one social anthem song on the album.
Live Performances:
- Michael was a genius when it came to his dance moves and outfits. But he was no genius when it came to his set lists for his tours. He performed the same bloody songs each time. No surprise one off performance of a rare song or a non single. Just the same hits again and again.
- And his performances of a lot of his songs were the same each damn tour. Like for Beat It, he used the same boring cherry picker entrance for three consecutive tours and was planning on doing it again for This Is It. For She’s Out Of My Life, he did the same “can I come down there†thing in the second verse before hugging a female fan for four consecutive tours.
- Michael’s singing style became too aggressive in later years and that didn’t always translate well to his live performances. I struggle to understand sometimes what he is saying when he is singing Working Day and Night and Dirty Diana. Maybe that’s because English isn’t my first language.
- Speaking of WDAN live, what a boring performance. Instead of wasting over 10 minutes, Michael should have cut the time to like 4-5 minutes and performed another song or two.
- Michael had no excuse for lip syncing as much as he did during the 90s. I understand that his voice was damaged during the History Tour, but what excuse did he have for lip syncing the entire Super Bowl 93 performance?
- The performance of Earth Song during the History tour was embarrassing and cringeworthy. A kid giving the flower to a soldier who comes out of the tank with a gun and the whole fake crying. Lol Embarrassing!
- And let’s not even talk about the Brit Awards 96 performance of Earth Song. It was extremely arrogant. People will say that Michael wasn’t arrogant at all, but there is no way that a person who was as successful as him wasn’t arrogant even in the slightest. It’s natural for successful people to be arrogant. And Michael was arrogant as well, if not consciously than subconsciously.