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Get Your Weight Off Of Me - Lyrics

MJbr2 said:
First you hate on concerts, now this?
Who hurt you, my guy?
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MJbr2 said:
RIGHT?
If I were president of the world, this guy would be locked in a room playing Bad Tour shows 24/7 for the rest of his life.
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THIS IS TARGETED HARASSMENT.

But for real, I like TYLA but have grown somewhat sour on it overall. It’s good but I don’t consider it like a required listen. SYPHD on the other hand just isn’t my cup of tea imo. SYPHO is outstanding and one of MJ’s finest ballads, but the demo just doesn’t do it for me. GYWOOM is at least something different. I guess in fairness I wouldn’t say it’s better than TYLA, but it’s a more interesting listen, if that makes sense.
 
AlwaysThere said:
But for real, I like TYLA but have grown somewhat sour on it overall. It’s good but I don’t consider it like a required listen. SYPHD on the other hand just isn’t my cup of tea imo. SYPHO is outstanding and one of MJ’s finest ballads, but the demo just doesn’t do it for me. GYWOOM is at least something different. I guess in fairness I wouldn’t say it’s better than TYLA, but it’s a more interesting listen, if that makes sense.
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TYLA sounds to me like one of the strongest (if not the strongest) tracks in the vault.

GYWOOM is really generic and underwhelming to me from all the snippets.
 
Mister_Jay_Tee said:
MJ liked the angular hard rhythms of the Superthug type of wound. Rodney actually wanted him to have lusher, more organic sounding stuff like You Rock My World and You Don't Love Me.
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That's a good point my friend, I love Mike but I'm with Rodney on this. At that point in his career Michael should have been the leader of the revolution and got artists back to real productions, talented musicians using real instruments again.

Sadly he didn't, and Invincible suffered for it, in my opinion. Probably why The Neptunes and Timberlake sounded so fresh and rode that wave in 2002
 
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SmoothCriminal1995 said:
That's a good point my friend, I love Mike but I'm with Rodney on this. At that point in his career Michael should have been the leader of the revolution and got artists back to real productions, talented musicians using real instruments again.

Sadly he didn't, and Invincible suffered in my opinion for it. Probably why The Neptunes and Timberlake sounded so fresh and rode thar wave in 2002
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I'm of two minds about it. I'm not liable to agree though, synthetic music is fine, and actually great. The set from Darkchild simply sounded rudimentary.

If there was any era style MJ could have done a lot with, it's more Bad stuff. That stuff scales great. Dangerous is 90s, and OTW is the 70s. Both are in trend but both are overplayed. His 80s melodies were so underrated.
 
The main proplem of Inivincible album is.... it's coloborators. There had to be more Michael's stuff! But lots of really good MICHAEL'S tracks went off the album. As I see it, Sony tried to make Invincible more overall. So they could get Money not just from Michael, but also from other participants. Hollywood Tonight, TWYLM, Blue Gangsta, Beautiful Girl, Xscape, She Was Loving Me and GYWOOM - these track could make Invincible album greater. Because they have classic Michael's tone! Just imagine If Hollywood Tonight would be the lead single (instead of boring YRMW) with videoclip and so on! It would be awesome!
 
Happy it has never been released. And curious how many % of the community would really enjoy a release
 
Going back to the quality of the song itself: I specially love the slow heavy jam feeling it has with that beat and the melody that fits perfectly with it in both verses and choruses which has stuck very nicely into my head, it works great as something akin to 2000 Watts (which I also love). I'm honestly very glad Michael ended up finishing it among all the other tracks he was working on. To me it stands very uniquely among his catalogue and encapsulates the work he ended up doing (along with his collabs) during the Invincible sessions. The whole full thing (in HQ most preferably) is going to stick with me along with other tracks of that era and an staple of it in general like with the other tracks he made (though with how people here tend to feel about this song whenever it is brought up I doubt a lot will agree).
 
Richard76 said:
Damn. I've just read so many stupid comments.... First of all, GYWOOM - is literally one of the BEST Michael's songs from Invincible era! It has the coolest sample and sounds just perfect. It's much better than many tracks from Invincible album! And secondly, in my honest opininon, MJ didnt let that track to be in Invincible album. because he was forced by Sony to finish colloborative tracks, like heaven can wait 2000 watts and so on! Thats why most of MICHAEL'S track were off the Invincible album! He surely loved GYWOOM, but didnt have time to finish it properly because of Sony...
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Ummm this is not true. Sony did pressure MJ to release the album as quickly as possible, but the tracklist and which songs were recorded was ultimately decided by MJ. The only intervention Sony had in this was in 1999 when MJ presented an early version of the album to Sony, and they told him “it wasn’t good enough.” This has been confirmed by multiple people on the project. Also Weight is definitely one of the weaker tracks from the era Imo.
 
Mister_Jay_Tee said:
MJ liked the angular hard rhythms of the Superthug type of wound. Rodney actually wanted him to have lusher, more organic sounding stuff like You Rock My World and You Don't Love Me.
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I wish MJ recorded You Don’t Love Me. Would’ve been interesting to hear him do more lush/ organic sounding stuff like what Brandy did on the Never Say Never album.
 
ChanceToDance said:
After listening to only the instrumental I can say that it's better, I don't know what was it with Jike's vocals but it sounded out of place to me. Anyway. It's a cool tune but it definitely isn't anywhere near the level of Rodney's best tracks like Threatened and Heartbreaker. The track is on level for re-issue albums imo and if the Estate ever decides to make an anniversary edition of Invincible that's where the track should be released.
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I agree. I like it better than Privacy and Invincible but Xscape, We’ve Had Enough, Rock My World, Threatened are so much better.
 
Alec said:

This captures the song structure pretty much 1:1, including the small instrumental breakdown 2/3 in. It seems to me the people who made this heard the full song.

So if anyone is curious about what the actual song sounds like, this is a good way to find out.
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Who's singing this? This is indeed very interesting. It's not MJ, right?
 
Hollywood_Tonight said:
Ummm this is not true. Sony did pressure MJ to release the album as quickly as possible, but the tracklist and which songs were recorded was ultimately decided by MJ. The only intervention Sony had in this was in 1999 when MJ presented an early version of the album to Sony, and they told him “it wasn’t good enough.” This has been confirmed by multiple people on the project. Also Weight is definitely one of the weaker tracks from the era Imo.
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It wan't good enough, because there were too much Michael's tracks) and Sony wanted more colloborative tracks) that's why he didnt have a chance to finish album properly
 
Hollywood_Tonight said:
I wish MJ recorded You Don’t Love Me. Would’ve been interesting to hear him do more lush/ organic sounding stuff like what Brandy did on the Never Say Never album.
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I like it but it sounds like the Whitney Houston collabs with Darkchild. Very, very, played out sound. Rodney Jerkins was everywhere back then, and when he wasn't, Timbo or Pharrell took over. Who else even was there in the production game back then?

It still would not have been the right time for Hollywood Tonight or any of that stuff imo. Much as I love it. All of that would've been ignored by the young people and maybe talked down by some of the older fans, the true believers who compared everything to Thriller. Tbh, too many fans get hung up on Invincible being the last album in his catalogue, and not what it would've ended up, a transition to a refined collection of further ideas. Just like Bad basically answered Thriller, which of itself was the culmination of Destiny, Off The Wall, and Triumph. And Dangerous was followed up by HIStory
 
Hollywood_Tonight said:
He’s also trying to sell the song for $$$$ so keep that in mind. Much easier to sell if you tell everyone it’s great, rather than mediocre.
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We're talking about this recreation, not the song itself. So I technically don't know what he would say about it. But how do you know he just don't like the song? You really need to quit enforcing the "It's terrible cuz I said so".
 
Mister_Jay_Tee said:
We're talking about this recreation, not the song itself. So I technically don't know what he would say about it. But how do you know he just don't like the song? You really need to quit enforcing the "It's terrible cuz I said so".
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I never said it was terrible. I think the song is overhyped and that people should focus more on the much better material still in the vault, like Monster and Shut Up and Dance.
 
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