Hurley509
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I've been an MJ fan for about 30 years but I can be a bit late to the party sometimes. I've really only gone back to Blood on the Dancefloor again recently, and while some of it is a bit dated, (the title track was considered dated even upon release), there are moments of that album that represent more experimentation than we ever saw in Invincible.
One of the crowning moments, for mine, of the album is when the rock beat of Morphine gives way to this really haunting piano riff, "Demerol, Demerol, Oh god he's taking Demerol!" On Invincible he never dares to be to take his music this far "out of the box".
And then there's Is It Scary, which I've now rediscovered as one of my favourite songs. There's something a bit James Bond theme song to it. It's theatrical, and it has different moods and textures.
These kinds of songs are a far cry from the artistically stagnant fare of much of Invincible, which only has maybe 5 songs that I would choose to listen to of my own volition and certainly none of its attempted dance tracks (bar YRMW) are much above a Brittney Spears B side.
I wonder what may have happened had Michael kept those tracks from BOTDF and let that build into a fully realized album, ala Decade turning into Dangerous. I think the MJ of 1997-8 and even up to 99 and 00 was far more creative and ambitious than what he became for Invincible.
I know there are people who, beyond my better reasoning, will always love Invincible but for me the album that should have been was cut short and maybe Invincible came in half cocked because it just wasn't the time for it.
One of the crowning moments, for mine, of the album is when the rock beat of Morphine gives way to this really haunting piano riff, "Demerol, Demerol, Oh god he's taking Demerol!" On Invincible he never dares to be to take his music this far "out of the box".
And then there's Is It Scary, which I've now rediscovered as one of my favourite songs. There's something a bit James Bond theme song to it. It's theatrical, and it has different moods and textures.
These kinds of songs are a far cry from the artistically stagnant fare of much of Invincible, which only has maybe 5 songs that I would choose to listen to of my own volition and certainly none of its attempted dance tracks (bar YRMW) are much above a Brittney Spears B side.
I wonder what may have happened had Michael kept those tracks from BOTDF and let that build into a fully realized album, ala Decade turning into Dangerous. I think the MJ of 1997-8 and even up to 99 and 00 was far more creative and ambitious than what he became for Invincible.
I know there are people who, beyond my better reasoning, will always love Invincible but for me the album that should have been was cut short and maybe Invincible came in half cocked because it just wasn't the time for it.