Why do people compare Prince to Michael Jackson so much

[Booker T Garvey]

Here's another one of princes problems - he was extremely difficult to work with and wanted 0 creative input on his music

prince wrote 100% of his songs. he wanted control over everything he did and artistic creative freedom to do his thing...cool right? so brilliant!! well let's look real quick:

yall were rocking with Chaos and Disorder? what's your favorite song off of this project?

what about the triple album Crystal Ball!? whew, 30+ songs of just sheer genius!! oh boy he wrote alladat!?!?

Relax with all the prince worship fellas...nothing about him was overrated or manufactured, all the love he received was much warranted.

but if you're going to REFUSE to work or collaborate with other artists on your music, then you'd better consistently put out GREAT and LEGENDARY WORK.

he didn't...period. that's just the truth.

thankfully prince came to his senses toward the last 15 years of his career and started performing his old 80's hits again

because if he hadn't - he'd have been up there singing songs that nobody had ever heard of and it would've killed his legacy

 

[kaldurahm]

Prince might very well be the better musician. But shut, 50 years from now the kids are still going to be listening to MJ's music. His music is like everlasting.

 

[TheDarkCloud]

@blak_majik why did you dap this post, you ARE one of the fans she's talking about.
You brought up sales and popularity, two metrics that can be artificially inflated. These don't determine skill level or quality, as one hit wonders, pop artists, and poor covers done by white artists tend to be traditional high sellers.
You definitely prove a few theories about female-identified men with your posting style.

You can't be serious with this post.

I brought up sales and popularity because I feel like that has to be brought up when discussing MJ. This man was selling tens and tens and tens of millions of albums with ONE album. No other pop artist, one hit wonder, or poor covers done by white artists has ever done what MJ has done on a commercial level. NOBODY has done it.

The man was a deity. You can't talk MJ and not bring up the fact that his numbers defy just about every single thing the music industry has had in place from the beginning of all time in the history of ever. The nikka was clearly not of this world.

Btw - what's a female identified man and what do my posts prove?

 

[TheBigBopper]

Here's another one of princes problems - he was extremely difficult to work with and wanted 0 creative input on his music

prince wrote 100% of his songs. he wanted control over everything he did and artistic creative freedom to do his thing...cool right? so brilliant!! well let's look real quick:

yall were rocking with Chaos and Disorder? what's your favorite song off of this project?

what about the triple album Crystal Ball!? whew, 30+ songs of just sheer genius!! oh boy he wrote alladat!?!?

Relax with all the prince worship fellas...nothing about him was overrated or manufactured, all the love he received was much warranted.

but if you're going to REFUSE to work or collaborate with other artists on your music, then you'd better consistently put out GREAT and LEGENDARY WORK.

he didn't...period. that's just the truth.

thankfully prince came to his senses toward the last 15 years of his career and started performing his old 80's hits again

because if he hadn't - he'd have been up there singing songs that nobody had ever heard of and it would've killed his legacy

I partly agree with this. Prince's biggest problem is that in his later career, he had no one to tell him no and force him to wittle down his musical product. There are a lot of gems in his later years (including IMO the title track from Crystal Ball, which isn't exactly commercial but is damn funky, original and adventurous), but he would have been better off if he took the best tracks from each of those 90s-00s albums and came out with an album every three years instead of 1 or 2 every year. All the filler overshadowed his stronger songs.

 

[Devilinurear]

they get compared because both were perfectionists when it came to their work and it showed through there sucess.

 

[Manuel Hot Pepper Lopez]

His biggest song is Thriller. Billie Jean is iconic, but lets be real...artist still tryna get that Thriller vibe with they elaborate dancing/crazy video concepts in the videos in shyt.

Naw man mike's biggest song is thriller

Thriller is his biggest VIDEO of all time, but Billie Jean is his defining song. Billie Jean was the performance that took him to another stratosphere, and the performance that was the biggest spectacle at all his concerts with the biggest reaction. The opening with him tossing his hat, and the part at the end where he's dancing to the drum beat with a single spotlight had people going ape and literally passing out or crying. It was the second to last song he would do at his concerts



Thriller is huge around Halloween, but the rest of the time you not hearing it as much. You'll always hear BJ & Don't Stop on radio, parties, weddings, etc

 

[DrexlersFade]

Let's act like Prince ain't bite Rick James though

 

[Manuel Hot Pepper Lopez]

Say that a guy making a bunch of noises with his mouth has comparable musical ability to a guy who plays a dozen instruments at a professional level, brehs.

When would he have time to learn to play instruments? He was performing and recording around the clock since 3rd grade, while Prince started out of high school. But the fact those noises and ideas could be transformed into legendary music shows MJ definitely had musical ability. The people he worked with talk about how he knew music and picked up stuff instantly. No reason to think he couldn't have been a great musician if he had the opportunity early on to learn

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Michael Jackson has never made a song like 'Scandalous' or 'If I Was Your Girlfriend'


Michael Jackson's songs have never helped me seduce a woman

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Because both are:

• light skin brehs
• from the Midwest
• artists who popped in the 80s
• effeminate & extravagant dudes
• singers who have light speaking voices
• and entertainers whom the ladies loved

Prince has a deep speaking voice; Prince was born light-skin unlike Michael Jackson

 

[KodeBlue]

Song and dance men are extremely well trained. He happened to be the ultimate in that field. A field that doesn't deserve as much respect as songwriting and creating raw music with minimal assistance. Mike was the culmination of great teamwork. The perfect vessel for creative engines. A living instrument, but not an artist in the truest sense.
True talent is creating, not perfect execution.

MJ had no training in song or dance, he was a natural. As we've stayed before, MJ created music with less assistance than Prince; MJ didn't even need a musical instrument or a studio before he created a song. All he used was a tape recorder.

 

[KodeBlue]

Prince could have produced a Michael Jackson album better than he could

Why didn't Prince produce a Prince album that was better than an MJ album then?

 

[KodeBlue]

This is how Beat it was created. The man created the whole shyt from top to bottom by himself. The man didn't even need musical instruments, producers, writters, technicians..nothing.

 

[Wavy Hair Chipped Teeth]

stevie wonder is not in this convo, all he does is sing

This might be the dumbest thing ever said regarding music. WOW

 

[TheBigBopper]

Prince has a deep speaking voice; Prince was born light-skin unlike Michael Jackson

This. Prince's speaking voice was deep af and MJ wasn't light skinned--dude was albino