Which do you prefer...

[Mister_Jay_Tee]

Happy Joyful MJ singing about love and ordinary things, or Tortured Genius MJ, singing against the tabloids, the fame, and his unhappiness?

 

[zinniabooklover]

Happy Joyful MJ singing about love and ordinary things, or Tortured Genius MJ, singing against the tabloids, the fame, and his unhappiness?

Tortured Genius. Little Susie, SIM, Morphine, Is It Scary, WHE, Earth Song - those are all works of outstanding genius, imo. Scream, WBSS, SC, TLC, HH/TPH, Abortion Papers all get way more attention from me than LIML, Get On The Floor or APOM, for example.

That said, I'm wrestling with the word 'prefer' ...

 

[Spaceship]

Tortured, unhappy genius, but not when he's singing about tabloids or his fame.

 

[Hot_Street]

depends on my mood

 

[Michaels Lover]

Both

 

[Mister_Jay_Tee]

I'm wrestling with the word 'prefer'

I'm wrestling with the fact he'd do both at both times and you just had to pick and choose.

 

[zinniabooklover]

I'm wrestling with the fact he'd do both at both times and you just had to pick and choose.

He did. I can go on 9 different journeys with Michael all in one song.

 

[filmandmusic]

I prefer happy Michael songs

 

[Hiker]

Happy joyful MJ sing about love .
WBSS, SC, Scream fall in different category than tabloids and fame. I rarely listen to Tabloid junky, privacy.

 

[Mister_Jay_Tee]

Happy joyful MJ sing about love .
WBSS, SC, Scream fall in different category than tabloids and fame. I rarely listen to Tabloid junky, privacy.

Tortured Genius MJ in the 80s was pretty different to the 90s. Yet some of his 80s output was used in the 90s, and in the 2000s he wanted to go back to happy go lucky stuff. It's all interesting.

 

[1958MJJmoonwalker7]

Happy Joyful MJ singing about love and ordinary things, or Tortured Genius MJ, singing against the tabloids, the fame, and his unhappiness?

The happy MJ b/c that was who he naturally was