ReturnOfJudah
Veteran
That Off The Wall Mike was snappin
Did Michael Jackson really like the music he was making after the Thriller album?
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Id also add that getting Curved by Diana Ross at the Awards definitely didnt help but it gave us Dirty Diana
feelosofer
#ninergang
I think Michael loved making music but he didn't love all the drama that came with being the most popular person in the WORLD.
I mean there really wasn't a 24/7 news cycle back then but Michael had reporters following him all day and night and the speculations that come with that.
On top of that he put so much pressure on himself to try and top Thriller.
Also that Pepsi commercial burn incidents was pretty traumatic because a lot of people close to him say he really was different after that.
I mean there really wasn't a 24/7 news cycle back then but Michael had reporters following him all day and night and the speculations that come with that.
On top of that he put so much pressure on himself to try and top Thriller.
Also that Pepsi commercial burn incidents was pretty traumatic because a lot of people close to him say he really was different after that.
ABlackMan
Superstar
So vitiligo hasn’t happened to any other member of his family?
Awesome Wells
The Ghost of Jack Tripper
This here.
All of the people who spent time with him all say the same thing. He was always in search of what he saw as a "normal life", but he didn't even know what that was or felt like. He would pay people to go into a closed store and walk around, while he shopped, just so he could see what it was like to do that and not have people come up to him and treat him like a star. He wanted to live a regular life, but couldn't because he was always the most famous person on the planet for his entire adult life.
Making music and performing was his outlet. He said it was the best way for him to express himself. And with how his personal life was, we could all see that he didn't have a lot of the things most people do as far as friends and relationships, but he had all this fame. So that's why they always said he was struggling with depression and an identity crisis.
InstantKlassik
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He looked so genuinely happy during the OTW era.
He deserved so much better than what he had to deal with later on following Thriller.
He deserved so much better than what he had to deal with later on following Thriller.
Dem313wayz
Superstar
Hell yea I agree too. He finally was able to branch outside the family and do the music he wanted.
He look so happy in the Rock With You video
ABlackMan
Superstar
This what I’m saying!!!! I don’t think he wanted to make none of that other shyt good as it was it’s no way. Dude look like he was suffering!
no black man wanna turn white neither bruh ain’t no way he was happy. Lot of this shyt don’t add up
En Sabah Nur
The First
He could have fallen back while young and on top like Barry Sanders, but he was addicted to performing and creating. He knew he paid the price for it
Yall also think that he was feeling the Heat from Prince coming into his Beloved Pop Lane too since Purple Rain dropped around that time and it was just as Hot as Thriller and Mike wanted a Collab on Bad
the Bad era def reflected the price of superstardom that he got from Thriller onwards...there was alot of that in his music...Leave Me Alone summarized that brilliantly...everyone wanted a piece of him and not necessarily with Michael's best interests at heart at times on top of the other things Michael was doing and being scrutinizedHe 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
OmegaK2099
Gettin' It In
Idk but that's when he began having that inflated sense of importance, he started posturing like he was Jesus.
Yeah. He probably not only liked, but loved the music he made, but he also spent the rest of his life trying to recreate/top something so extraordinary. And in the process of doing so, he was being criticized and scrutinized way harder than he was while making Thriller. All the over-the-top tabloid talk and gossip that surrounded him wasn't there before Thriller. Thriller was made with only his expectation of it being a hit and being great, the albums afterward were made with the addition of pressure, criticism, lack of privacy, and attempting to make every song a "hit".
RN1814 is Janet's magnum opus
Incredible Album. Her, Jimmy and Terry bodied that shyt.
RN1814 is Janet's magnum opus
Incredible Album. Her, Jimmy and Terry bodied that shyt.
Babyface even said when he and LA Reid met Mike prior to 'Dangerous', they asked Mike what he liked by them so they could get a feel for what to make for him. He said he liked 'Rhythm Nation". They said "we didn't make that", he said "yeah I know but that's what I like". Then he said he wanted them to do some stuff they'd never done before. Basically, he was looking to recreate a Rhythm Nation-ish album but couldn't get the producers he wanted, so he got the next best, which is why the Mike/Babyface/LA collabs never really happened. They only ended up completing one song together.
