Did Michael Jackson really like the music he was making after the Thriller album?

[Mike the Executioner]

Well put. I understand that he was a perfectionist and Bad was great (a lot of people say it's his best album), but he should have realized that it wasn't only that Thriller is a great, music changing record, but it was also a lightning strike and would be impossible to reproduce sales wise. Just make the best album you can and let the chips fall where they may sales wise. but what made him so great is that I guess he couldn't think like that.

Yeah, Michael proved everybody wrong and then some with Thriller. He wanted it to be the biggest album of all-time where every song was so great, you would want to buy it if it was a single. Quincy asked him how he would feel if it sold 6-8 million copies and Michael didn't want to hear it. The record industry wasn't doing well around that time, either. Once "Billie Jean" came out, it was over and Thriller ended up saving the record industry singlehandedly. The videos getting played on MTV, Motown 25, the short film for "Thriller" that got sold in video stores like a movie, eight Grammys. Every move Michael made with Thriller was the best move. He felt like if he did it once, he could do it twice.

I can’t remember where I heard it or which one but I remember Jam and Lewis saying Bad didn’t really have a direction then MJ heard the early recordings and direction Rhythm Nation 1814 album and it was his muse. And Janet was talking some deep shyt in 1814. Early Bad was sounding more like Fly Away and I’m So Blue which aren’t terrible but they don’t fit what Bad eventually became.

Rhythm Nation came out after Bad, but I think that album influenced Dangerous. Michael wanted to work with Jimmy and Terry, but they said no because they were loyal to Janet.

 

[Jerz-2]

All I know is MJ forever the GOAT.

Jackson AND Jordan.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

Rhythm Nation came out after Bad, but I think that album influenced Dangerous. Michael wanted to work with Jimmy and Terry, but they said no because they were loyal to Janet.

You’re right. Got my albums mixed up

 

[Menna]

All I know is MJ forever the GOAT.

Jackson AND Jordan.

 

[KnickstapeCity]

We really need a retro section for some of you old ass nikkas

How old are you

29

come on son

Wait until you turn 30 for real. I’m almost 5 months in lol this shyt been cool mentally. Perspective man

You a foul nikka, breh. You an old ass nikka yourself.






Mike had a big dikk, brehs. The word GOAT is an underestimation. Fukk the cacs and self hating c00ns that try and down play his accomplishments.

 

[ABlackMan]

You a foul nikka, breh. You an old ass nikka yourself.






Mike had a big dikk, brehs. The word GOAT is an underestimation. Fukk the cacs and self hating c00ns that try and down play his accomplishments.

I’m young you tripping

 

[KnickstapeCity]

I’m young you tripping

I was talking to the nikka @GOAT but fukk if you are.





You 30. Young my ass, nikka!!!!

 

[RasNas]

To me Dangerous and HIStory are actually way better than Bad.

 

[Menna]

Yeah fam the childhood part I’m keen to. I’m black bruh lmaoooo most of us know about that young Mike through our parents or the rerun movie on Vh1, all of that.

Far as elevation as an artist I’m thinking about OTW progression to BAD. The look the sound all of that. I sit back and it’s like damn!


As an artist we change and we supposed to evolve truly but shyt it just look like he was hurting and controlled to a certain point. Like I said I could be projecting my own feelings but yeah


Y’all gave a lot of insight I’m glad I posted this.

He became more aggressive and sexual in his dancing and music it is a BIG change from Jackson 5 Off The Wall and Thriller… after that watch his stadium/football field concerts and peep the vibe, movement and energy def a difference. Who knows what really happened if it was one thing or 5 things that lead to a change we don’t know…all you can do is go over the timelines and events and draw conclusions….he was probably pissed at something(s) and vented through his art

His family or most of it wasn’t fukkin with him, a lot of people wanted things from him, the media became disrespectful, he was around a lot of takers, didn’t have a solid or consistent women in his life (besides Elvis daughter) to have kids he needed to pay a women to carry … there’s probably 12 other things that pissed him off

 

[Low End Derrick]

The Pepsi ad fukked him up

 

[Low End Derrick]

We really need a retro section for some of you old ass nikkas

This is the retro section You gotta head to to KTT, TikTok or Reddit if you want to talk about Carti, Travis nem

 

[African Peasant]

He became 'too perfectionist' for his own good. Sometimes, the music seems too cerebral.

I wish he did one 'I don't give a fukk album'. One month in he studio and that's it.

To me Dangerous and HIStory are actually way better than Bad.

 

[KnickstapeCity]

One month in he studio and that's it.

Mike dikk too big, breh. Breh didn’t get down like that.

 

[Yehuda]

Sometimes I wonder if he liked the music he was making for Thriller. I remember he did an interview where he said he was pissed off that Off the Wall only won 1 Grammy Award after all of the hard work he put into that album and then he kind of let on that was his favorite album of his own.

I got Off the Wall above Thriller as well.

 

[The_Sheff]

Man I wish we could have gotten at least one more Quincy album. You listen to those albums and there are layers to those tracks that just don’t exist from Dangerous on.