Okay i had no idea where to post it but some guys on youtube are really getting on my nerves now:
Tell me what was so impressive about the arrangements in his head.Let's say he played all of the instruments himself.What was so groundbreaking or incredible about the chord progressions,the key changes,the time signatures,the note structures...Tell me what was non basic about them.Because to me it sounds like simple,rehashed pop dreck.Not to say he didn't have some good songs,but he was so far from brilliant.It is a insult to include him in the same class as Marvin Gay,Stevie Wonder,Prince,Sly Stone,James Brown etc.
So according to this person MJ was nothing special, yet he looks up his videos on YouTube to comment on them and try to prove to others how unspecial he was? LOL, there is always an irony in such things. If he was truly not special you wouldn't lose a thought on him and spending time trying to discredit him as an artist.
Music is subjective and different people have different aesthetics and they look for different type of experiences. Someone may look for a unique note structure or whatever, someone else may look more for what music emotionally does to them and not for technicalities. I acknowledge the geniuses of the people this person listed, but they do not give me remotely the emotional experience that MJ does. And while I like to listen to all of them, after a while some of them can get boring while that never happens to me with MJ. But again, that is MY subjectivity, just like this other person has his own subjectivity.
I do not think MJ's ambition was to come up with something experimental, unique chord progressions, key changes and stuff. He was more of an instinctive artist who simply came up with what he liked and what felt right to him. I actually like him for being more instinctive and less technical - to me that has a certain genuine, vernacular soulfulness to it that is rare. I don't care if music snobs who are often too focused on technicalities appreciate it or not. MJ did not need snobs' approval for his music to touch and move millions, if not billions of people all over the world - regardless of cultural background, nationality, race, social status - and in ways those other artists that snobs appreciate never did.
Having said that, MJ did have his own style that is ridiculous to call "rehashed pop dreck". There is nothing "rehashed pop dreck" about songs like Who Is It, Billie Jean, TDCAU, Workin' Day and Night, WBSS, Morphine, Heartbreak Hotel... and the list goes on and on and on. He did have a unique style that was far from rehashed from anyone and that you know is MJ when you hear it. It may not be a unique chord progression or whatever, but when you hear the song it is a very uniquely MJ song as a whole.
I personally think the fact that he is under MJ videos, commenting and trying to discredit in itself disrpoves what he says. If MJ was truly so insignificant and average he wouldn't spend time and effort on trying to discredit him as an artist. LOL. I do not lose thought and effort on artists that I truly think are average and nothing special.
And another person called him 'a bit of a dick' for having the solo writing credits on stranger in moscow.
As if you cannot find something like that about almost any artist. From Prince to Pink Floyd to James Brown you can name examples of writing credit being given to one person while others contributed as well. There is a certain segment of the MJ fandom that overblows this SIM issue so much that it is ridiculous. Usually these "keeping it real" types.
And BTW I said "MJ fans" because it is not something that the general public usually talks or cares about. It is an issue that fans talk about. So if this person is aware of it then once again it shows he is preoccupied with MJ more than the average person in the general public is. So much effort and thought put into discrediting an artist he thinks is "nothing special". LOL.
