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Thriller access memories
Thriller access memories















That ghost can’t haunt someone who is constantly looking forward.Īnd I’m also reminded that when MJ was great, he was the king.This month, one of the most acclaimed albums of the 21st century turns 10. A memory can help with planning and warning but can’t be relived. And this happens all the time in marriages, places of employment, adventures and more…Īnd so while my kids sing the songs of my youth, I can’t help but remind myself that each moment of my life is a memory that will live in my mind and on a page but can’t be duplicated. I wonder what would have happened if MJ just wiped the slate clean and tried something new rather than chase a number? I wonder if he would have had more fun than chasing a ghost? The result was amazing music but at the cost of a man’s life before his death. Yet we stand outside in the rainstorm all the time, with mason jars in our hands and hope in our minds. The saying is lighting never strikes the same place twice and that doing something awesome is like catching lighting in a bottle. I'm not saying "Don't be excellent!" or something to that effect, but rather don't try to duplicate success. So.what the heck does that have to do with anything? We always want THIS thing to be better than THE LAST thing, don’t we? New look, new ideas, new whatever. Every album has hints of "Thriller" but are hurdled with songs of defence, defiance and dance. The voice of his abusive father (Be the best), his quest for immortality (Be remembered) and his need for love (Be accepted) became his ghosts and haunted him until his untimely death. The curse of trying better himself beat him like the Spurs just beat the Heat: hard. And this was just before his life became a human show of allegations, rumors, truths, Lisa Marie Pressly, the Neverland raid and more…) He aimed for better and only got good enough. And people just were into him as they once were. These two things called Heavy Metal and Rap started to move into the mainstream, altering the sound of the youth. See, while "Bad" was popular and really good, music had begun to change. In fact, Michael predicted that since Thriller had sold close to 50 million copies around the world, Bad could sell 100 million. 'Billy Jean' becomes 'Dirty Diana'…and on it went. So the paranoia in Wanna Be Starting Something become a split between defiance in "Bad" and retreat in 'Leave Me Alone'. In fact, they just took the same formula and “toughed” it up a bit…well as much as you could make Michael Jackson look tough. When he and Quincy went back to the drawing board for " Bad", his follow-up to Thriller, they wanted to make a better 'Thriller'. And all together, it became the biggest selling album of all time in one calendar year.Īnd yup, he finally won his grammy for album of the year…along with 7 others, setting a record. And people loved it, to the tune of 29 million people in the US alone. From top to bottom, it was straight hits.

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The album doesn’t really have a flow of sorts ( 4) but it plays soooooo hard. And so he and Quincy set out to make the perfect album with the perfect songs and story.

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That's when Michael introduced the full falsetto sound.Īt the following Grammys, Michael didn’t win the coveted Album of the Year and he was high-voiced livid. To this day, if you play “Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough” at a wedding where people actually love music, the party will move to the next level ( 3). OTW was a sharp disco/RnB mix that saw Michael branch out as a songwriter, musician and star. You see, in 1979, Michaal and his producer Quincy Jones, released Off The Wall. The legend behind Thriller was that it was birthed out of anger and a sense of betrayal. Thriller: The best-selling album of all time.















Thriller access memories