If you could meet anyone dead or alive, who would it be? Why?

jbnbsn99 said:
Everyone? I'm sure I could find dozens, if not hundreds, of pieces of music more important.
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AnaheimZoo: I agree that Billie Jean was his most famous song but I think, Man in the Mirror, had the most meaning to it. It has my most favorite quote of all time in it, 'If you want to make the world a better place, then take a look at yourself and make a change'.

jbnbsn99: Then I bet all those hundreds of songs are Michael's ;)
 
Moebelle said:
It wasn't really just is music that made him famous but the fact that he cared for the world and it's people more than anyone. He donated over $350,000,000 to charities. Besides that, all his songs had a meaning to it.
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So you're saying that charity work overshadowed his iconic moves and amazing music, and were the real reason he was as famous as he was? No... I don't think that's right. :D
 
AnaheimZoo said:
So you're saying that charity work overshadowed his iconic moves and amazing music, and were the real reason he was as famous as he was? No... I don't think that's right. :D
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Oh of course I don't think just that:) No one will ever, ever! be able to do his moves like he did.

Edit: All this MJ talk has gotten me wanting to listen to his music. Listening to one of his best but not his mot famous, Dangerous.
 
Oh, Rebecca Black. :p Friday's not actually as bad a song as people make it seem. I do find it stuck in my head quite a bit. :D The lyrics are crap, though.
 
So, you comments on Billie Jean piqued my interest, so I re-listened to it. I heard nothing musically innovative in the song. It is a typical verse and refrain format with an unvarying underlying rhythm and bass line. There are no great timbrel or dynamic changes and the lyrics are somewhat unintelligible. The only really innovative feature of Michael Jackson's music is the liberal borrowing of Senegalese popular music, which hadn't infiltrated the US at the time. But, then again, I don't know much about music. :)
 
Back to what jbnbsn99 was saying, I too don't know why he was so popular. As many album sales as Thriller has had, I find Bad to be a better album overall. Sure, Thriller's got some of my favorites/some of the best songs ever made, but I think every song on Bad was above average, while Billie Jean, Thriller, and Beat It (I feel), were far greater than the others on Thriller.
 
jbnbsn99 said:
So, you comments on Billie Jean piqued my interest, so I re-listened to it. I heard nothing musically innovative in the song. It is a typical verse and refrain format with an unvarying underlying rhythm and bass line. There are no great timbrel or dynamic changes and the lyrics are somewhat unintelligible. The only really innovative feature of Michael Jackson's music is the liberal borrowing of Senegalese popular music, which hadn't infiltrated the US at the time. But, then again, I don't know much about music. :)
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The song has to do with a serious matter in his life where a woman claimed that MJ was the father of her sons. She sent him letters and pictures and tried her best to stalk him. MJ then started to develop nightmares and couldn't sleep at night because of it. Anyways the song has an amazing beat to it. Look up his performance at Motown, it will blow you away.:)
 
Surely me wanting to meet a former member of the Nazi SS is more controversial and discussion-worthy than MJ's music? :D
 
AnaheimZoo said:
Back to what jbnbsn99 was saying, I too don't know why he was so popular. As many album sales as Thriller has had, I find Bad to be a better album overall. Sure, Thriller's got some of my favorites/some of the best songs ever made, but I think every song on Bad was above average, while Billie Jean, Thriller, and Beat It (I feel), were far greater than the others on Thriller.
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I agree, those were and still are the main 3 songs that the media (radio) focuses on. Bad was a masterpiece with some of my favorites, Smooth Criminal, The Way You Make Me Feel, Man in the Mirror, Leave Me Alone, and of course, Bad.
 
Moebelle said:
Look up his performance at Motown, it will blow you away.:)
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His performance at Motown 25 was honestly crap. I'd say his best performances came during the Dangerous tour.

@jbnbsn99 - It's all opinion-based. Billie Jean is my favorite song, but do I think there are greater? Possibly. It's all about how you feel and what you feel during a song. I mean I know relatively nothing about music, so it's hard for me to explain. All I know is that this is coming from a teen who listens to 70's and 80's music more than modern-day music. :)

My mind's all jumbled up now after these conversations. :D
 
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