I guess you would have to be old enough to remember the impact that it had at the time, to fully understand that. For the time, it was something spectacular, yes, as it was something that wasn't seen before. And for that, it's definitely not overrated. But performance-wise, it's not as good as other performances of the song later on. And so it's easy for people who aren't old enough to remember Motown 25, to say that it's overrrated, simply because of the performance alone. I'm not old enough to remember it myself, and i don't think I will ever really understand something like that. But then again, no entertainer in my life time has never even come close to Michael. If we have no clue about the impact it had, what else can we compare it with other than the performance alone? :thinking: