It's because it has all the fundamentals of an MJ self composition (The looping beatbox, the sparse rhythm) but it doesn't have the same amount of polish as say, Billie Jean, or Who Is It. I appreciate it for that though.
I don't know what's bad about that. It's a 90s song. It's allowed to sound like the 90s.
They would have bent over backwards for him, the question is was it a mistake on MJ's part by not looking into doing it again
I'm not sure about that. Mike had a lot of bad media coverage later in life. The big outcry about the Janet & Justin Timberlake performance in 2004 would not have helped either. There were lawsuits & FCC fines about that and Janet's career kind of went downhill after, but nothing really happened to Justin though. A lot of people who watch the NFL are "middle America" and I don't think they would want to turn off that part of the audience by having a controversial singer who is the brother of the newly controversial singer that had the "wardrobe malfunction".
None of that was Janet's fault and she deserved none of that. "middle America" is just annoyed white people.
The 30th anniversary concert was seen by a total of 45 million in the United States, nearly 40% of the total super bowl audience two months later. There was nobody else capable of doing numbers like Mike even though it wasn't even comparable to his absurd numbers in 80s and 90s. Had he extended a offer they'd accept him with open arms for the super bowl
A football audience and a audience who would watch a Michael Jackson concert are 2 different things. It's like the artists who perform at Farm Aid and the audience who watches that are mostly different from the ones for Live Aid. A lot of rednecks are NFL fans, who are less likely to be into the type of music Michael Jackson does or guys who have makeup on. Football players are considered to be traditional manly macho men. Anyway, it doesn't really matter how many people would watch a Michael Jackson halftime, if a large amount of NFL fans boycott watching the game itself. That one time would hurt the NFL brand in the long term. Like people complaining about Beyoncé's Superbowl performance with Black Panthers imagery (not the Marvel superhero, but the 1960s Black Panther Party).
Well that same middle America is why NFL player Colin Kaepernick lost his job for protesting during the national anthem.
It's fine. I'm just explaining to you why only one chart is necessary, and why all the others are a waste of time, they exist only for marketing reasons, and that's why the rest of the world laughs at America. That's all.
You're misunderstanding me. I don't care if rap music sells or not. I don't care if any music sells or not.
Yep, spot on. It literally says it on the front cover.
No. Not needed.
Ugh. What's wrong with you?!
That's... really not how that works.
Thinking about it now, I'd probably say Earth Song was the best song of the 90s, from any artist.- Earth Song. Guy Pratt bass adds a lot to itThe last section is among Michael's best vocal run in his discography
This is the one song that really makes me want to crank up the volume as high as I can.
Interesting way of thinking about it. I wonder what people would have thought if Come Together was the CD bonus track instead of LMA
Interesting point. I guess it is too long.
You're not "explaining" anything. You're wasting the use of my educational ability is what you're doing.
Update: It seems from this clip that even 'Scream' was not about his allegations but about social injustice (Rodney King?)
What makes it different than the other albums..?
Off The Wall has a theme but it's simple. Thriller doesn't really, it's iconism outlasts any intention. Bad has one but arguably it was meant to only go for so long and can easily be divorced from the songs. Invincible was meant to be the intro to the 21st century but it wasn't really a statement, so much as a return to basics. It's a bit reduced since there was no true follow up either.
I love the fact that he „can‘t“ be covered easily and very seldomly!
Thinking of that tdcau & es could have made the Dangerous album. Could have pushed the album sales exponentially.
It's also a great demonstration of the mid 90s sound, that period post New Jack Swing, post the explosion of grunge, but before the pre-millennium sound that urban and R&B took. But obviously there's way more strains of vintage influence thrown into the mix, sounds that could be traced pre-Dangerous, pre-Off The Wall even.
Disc 1, song 6: Bad & Disc 2, song 6: D.S.
"Then he released Invincible lol" His best album ever???? (I genuinely love Invincible. History and Dangerous are tied for second, with Bad in third.)