You have to give Michael Jackson credit. When he was at his best, no one was better. No one. Here he is doing “Billie Jean” live. No back up dancers. Just Michael in the spotlight showing why he was the biggest star in the world.
You have to give Michael Jackson credit. When he was at his best, no one was better. No one. Here he is doing “Billie Jean” live. No back up dancers. Just Michael in the spotlight showing why he was the biggest star in the world.
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Seriously....some of the Beatles stuff is sooooooo overblown, like Hey Jude.
Give me Aerosmith before they got sober....Or Skynyrd
Genius is an overused word. Phil Spector was good and innovative at what he did, Einstein was a genius!
I don't remember ANYONE calling Phil Spector a genius.
I don't think anyone has been able to understand what Jackson has been singing since the Off the Wall album.
I just did a Google search for "Phil Spector" and "genius" and got 81,800 references. This is truly the epitome of a guy who wavered back and forth on each side of the line between genius and madness.
His Wall of Sound was a huge influence on 60s rock. He produced and co-wrote "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" for the The Righteous Brothers and BMI calls it the song with the most U.S. air play in the 20th century. He produced 25 Top 10 hits between 1960 and 1965. He produced "Get Back," "The Long & Winding Road," and "Let It Be" for the Beatles.
Definitely a genius. And most definitely insane.
Carolyn Faun...try Beethoven,Bach,Mozart,Debussy,Ravel, Schoenberg,Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly.............. Just a few to start, but i could go through a long list if you want.
BTW... I don't have a fat behind... and also the recordings Elvis made with Sun records will always be more important than the overproduced albums of MJ.
Also... MJ hurt many boys and was a bad example for millions besides being horribly marketed and overproduced!
Well said editor!
White folks with money can be eccentric all day long. But let a black person try it and they are called crazy. Look at Phil Spector's crazy behind chasing folks around his house with guns and then shooting them in the mouth and folks called this man a genius. What a load of crap is that? Look at Robert Blake's crazy behind. Taking his wife out to dinner and then blowing her to peices. I don't give a care how many surgeries MJ had or what he did with his money, he never hurt anyone. No one asked those buggers to come to his house they came on their own and begged to sleep in the bed with MJ. Then they turned around and went to a psychiatrist and told her MJ molested them. I am with Al Sharpton, Mike wasn't crazy it was crazy the stuff he had to go through.
What about the amusement park, outrageous costumes, jackolantern face surgeries, chimpanzee toting, little boy statues everywhere, forced lady-boy voice would you say is not crazy?
Besides, I don't think most people even thought of Michael Jackson as black. By all outward appearances he was clearly a noseless white woman.
Ahhhh, the race card has been played. I don't recall anyone here defending Phil Spector or Robert Blake. I would imagine that most people thought Spector was, much like Jackson, a once great talent who pissed away his genius and ended up nuttier than the proverbial fruitcake. I would also imagine that most people would think Blake was a lifelong social misfit who was talented enough that Hollywood was willing to overlook it for a while. Eventually, all three were consumed by their own demons.
But remember, Carolyn, you are the one who brought up Blake and Spector and race. We didn't do it and neither did anyone else on this website.
Uh, Elvis, name one person more talented than MJ? Okay, I'll wait? It certainly wasn't your wide waisted behind.
Samuel Barber (Agnus Dei) Adagio for strings.
You want real culture, pull this one up and humor me. If you can listen to Adagio For Strings and critique it in your mind as a comparison to your MJ idol, and not understand, then you are a completely lost soul! There is more passion and real human emotion in this one masterpiece than any Motown lover can ever comprehend! Just one example. I can name many.
We miss you, MJJ.
There are many people more talented than Michael Jackson. There is something besides pop culture! Pop culture does little for art, thinking, virtue, knowledge,love,discipline .. you name it the list goes on and on!
Well, I watched your video - right the way through - the first time I have ever seen or heard him perform. Alas, clown make-up and costume, old-style mime techniques modernised, inaudible lyric, tedious song, plodding rhythm - oh well, I suppose it's a generation thing. For me popular music ended with Sinatra and all the wonderful song-writers and musicians who supplied him with material that will last for ever.