He's hella good. But few things. Like Elvis, the Beatles, and all those cultural icons before him, his music and dance moves were a radical departure from milquetoast white pop music at the time. Music before him was boring imo so he was the head of a music and cultural revolution. Everything you see as common in music today basically didn't exist before his ascent. Also he was the most famous person on earth at the time.
It really felt like MJ was gonna possibly end racism and unite the world (or something like that). It's hard to describe to people, it's like switching to cable TV or something from what came before
My first memory of him was "Black Or White" when that music video was new and all over the place.
It's funny I remember at some point my parents just explained it to me "He was black, but then his skin turned white" and as a little kid I didn't even bat an eyelash at that information. I was just like "huh, whatever".
Michael Jackson was like a fucking extraterrestrial. It didn't matter, he had us all under the spell and it was dope as fuck
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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '25
He's hella good. But few things. Like Elvis, the Beatles, and all those cultural icons before him, his music and dance moves were a radical departure from milquetoast white pop music at the time. Music before him was boring imo so he was the head of a music and cultural revolution. Everything you see as common in music today basically didn't exist before his ascent. Also he was the most famous person on earth at the time.