That's just, like, your opinion, man...Michael Jackson is not over-rated.
Everything in popular culture is overrated.The comment that "everything in popular music is overrated" is ridiculous.
As are all posts on the forum, man ...That's just, like, your opinion, man...
You are equating major sales with over-rated. I think that some artists have been met with high critical praise, some despite poor sales, others in spite of their success. I don't agree that the critical press covering popular music is so slipshod that they have "over-rated everything."Popular culture, as swept along by economic forces and driven by mass marketing, overrates everything. Of course it does. It's in its nature.
Yes, I suspect that I'm a tad jealous of MJ. How about the rest of you musicians?first of all, you are nuts. But you are Canadian, so I can understand why hot dance music isnt your thing.
But MJ was a great entertainer. In the Jackson 5, little Mike was awesome. He had James Brown's spin down at age 5. Dont underestimate him as a dancer, either.
Then in the 80s he turned out some serious hits. Thriller was a groundbreaking music video. There's alot to like, its just that you have to like dance music
I get it not liking pop music, but give credit where credit is due. He was an incredible singer and dancer and a great entertainer in the 70s and 80s.
Remind me...what was it Michael Jackson was convicted of?It was distasteful to play his music for a few weeks after some documentary came out about him, then everyone decided that Thriller was just too good and we forgave him. Yet the far superior artist R Kelly remains a villain.
"Remind me...what was it Jimmy Saville was convicted of?"Remind me...what was it Michael Jackson was convicted of?
"How about sticking to the music?"And you might look up why R Kelly "remains a villain".
I did, in my first post. It was you who brought up the extra-musical irrelevance."How about sticking to the music?"
Oh Forster, must we really go on some silly back and forth. It'd be much better if you simply laid your ego aside for once and accepted that as per usual I'm right and you're wrong. If you really didn't care for extra-musical digressions, you wouldn't have wasted all our time by making a new post replying to me irrelevantly declaring Michael Jackson was never convicted of anything, when I never even accused him of anything in that post, but rather simply recalled the public response to a big documentary a few years back (there's even a wiki section about the temporary backlash). Anyway, personally I love digressions so long as they circle back to the main topic, which we can achieve by you listing your fave Jacko songs. And please for the love of g-d don't say Earth Song!I did, in my first post. It was you who brought up the extra-musical irrelevance.
(The comparison with Savile is ill-advised: Jackson did at least face a trial and was found not guilty).
So true!hey, if we threw out the music of every degenerate, there would be no pop music left
"Remind me...what was it Jimmy Saville was convicted of?"
"How about sticking to the music?"