I think the song on Youtube with the most amount of views is Baby Shark, like over 11 billion or something. There's many people who listen to music in languages they don't speak or understand. What about instrumental songs or artists?
I guess you've just missed my point. Of course I don't mean literally 100% of all songs.
But yeah, I'm aware of Baby Shark...
Do you think most of the people who listen to death metal, horrorcore, goth, showtunes, & gangsta rap do the things the songs are about?
It's certainly inspirational in a lot of cases. I don't know who would aspire to drug dealing and prostitution, but evidently some people do.
Like, it must be a coincidence, but there was a lot of discussion in another thread a few days ago about why rap isn't more popular with non-blacks. Here's your answer. Maybe if all the songs weren't about guns and jewellery, other people would be able to relate, then you'd sell more copies, then you wouldn't need to invent a "rap chart" or whatever, just to make the sales look good.
Are you aware of the Kidz Bop series of albums?
I'm not.
Please don't enlighten me.
You are Not Alone , a nice song but a cringe video and now we know R Kelly wrote it makes it even worse.
Yeah, that's one of the few songs that goes against the album's prevailing trend. It's pretty generic, anybody could have sung it and it would have sounded fine, you wouldn't raise an eyebrow.
Similar to Dangerous but it was not quite as good.
That's pretty much how I see it as well.
I personally like that he included some ballads like, Childhood, Smile, Little Susie, etc.
Agreed. But when I'm listening to Childhood, I ask myself, what would I think if I heard somebody else singing it? It would just be wrong.
Same question for Leave Me Alone, Privacy, DS, etc.
Michael about relatable songs: Heal the World, Speechless, ummm and that’s a difficult one, I think ummm. hmmmm .. You are my Life. AD: So you went for the ones that are kind of the biggest statements in a way, it seems to me. MJ: Yeah because it is important they are very melodic and they have a great important message that’s kind of immortal. That can relate to any time and space you know.
Yeah, those three are more relatable. Notice two of them are straightforward love songs. You don't need to explain anything about them. For somebody to understand and appreciate half of HIStory, assuming somebody young who wasn't alive in the 90s, you'd need to spend a lot of time explaining the whole backstory.
the song was originally called Tabloid Jungle in the 80s
Wow, didn't know that. Thanks.
If artists only made songs about other people and not about their personal experiences it would all be so uninteresting and bland imo
True. And for me, part of the interest is to see how similar those experiences are to my own. I guess that's often why people like artists who look like themselves, come from the same town, etc.
But again, it's good to have some middle ground. When you have somebody who's whole life has been
so unique and unusual, that can be a barrier that gets in the way. I can't understand the subtleties of MJ's life, just like he could never understand mine.
People often say GNR and Oasis can never make another album as good as their debut. The main reason for this is because the band themselves changed after becoming big. Their whole circumstances changed, they no longer had the same drive/passion as they did when they started (how could you have the same desire when you're a 30-year-old millionaire as you did when you were 20 and homeless?) The type of experiences you're writing about at that point are very different to what you were writing about before (contrast Nightrain with November Rain or Supersonic with Champagne Supernova, or whatever). It all effects the relatability.
isn't it more interesting the hear the stories and experiences a very unique individual such as Michael Jackson has to share
It definitely is interesting. But it can easily go too far. There's a difference between 1 or 2 songs on an album that say "I'm MJ and I do MJ stuff", and having 10 of them on an album.
To me a piece of art is a way for an artist to share a bit of his story, of course no one other than him can relate to being the most famous person on Earth,
That's what I'm getting at. When it's MJ it makes it one step harder to relate.
in a way it helps getting to know him and his life by hearing his side of the story
I like what you did there.
I agree and ironically enough his unique circumstances also made it hard to 'believe' him (for me) when he actually
did songs more relatable to the public later on; like when he sings about casually walking into a park with a girl I immediately think: yeah right, MJ in park without a crowd of people
I'd not really thought about the believability before. I guess you're right.
I would say most of the songs on HIStory are related to the allegations and his portrayal in the media. I feel like songs such as Stranger In Moscow, This Time Around, 2BAD etc... wouldn't have ever existed if he didn't go through the 93 allegations so I really don't think they could have been on BAD or Dangerous.
Good point. Without that stuff, the album after Dangerous would have been
very different. Not nearly as angry, etc.
The last section is among Michael's best vocal run in his discography 
