Salami
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Totally agree with most of this. Off The Wall is a great title because the music is off the wall compared to what came before. I wasn't around at the time but comparing Forever Michael to Off the Wall...it's like a different artist decades apart.MJ releases are meant to feel like the latest film in an iconic film franchise. That's what they all gave me. Off The Wall is a bit of an outlier but Frankly it just makes that record more enjoyable. It's like a start to the lineage, and a farewell to the earlier days. Your Got To Be There, Ben, Music & Me, Forever Michael days were past.
Then you even have Destiny, Triumph, Victory. Great additions to the further universe of the MJ canon.
This Is It isn't part of the canon but as the grand finale to MJs career, well, you literally can't do any better, now can you?
That's why I have another reason to find Michael a disappointment. That is way too sentimental a name; he would've never done that. They got away with it then but never again. The album cover as well. Though he did commission that art, it doesn't work for an album. Again, they got away with it, I guess.
Xscape, though? That's a true return to form. It's different, it's not a noun like the others; it's a verb. This isn't MJ as you knew him but it's in the fashion of his greatest records, with all the edge you can, and I really just, love it. They had it so easy. If they ever do it again, they gotta keep that energy. Monster, Rocker,Legacy. Please, give us one more fire name.
The Jacksons album titles are incredible. Strong.
Michael is there for the sentimental value but it's a trash title, it's meaningless. But look at the material...I didn't know he commissioned the art though. I actually quite like it even though it doesn't really capture all of his work.
Xscape, I never liked that title. It just doesn't mean anything to me.