Saw one of the lurkers was reading this age old thread. maybe cause of the biopic that is out now.

Yeah seems Ben Willis wiffed on this one.

MJ was an extradorinary talent, not just as an entertainer but as a singer and songwriter.

He may not be the most deep of lyric writers, but his songs were so powerful for his genre. Not sure he wrote some of those great grooves and licks. I know he didnt write the riff to beat it, Steve Lukather did that.

Eddie Vane Halen did the solo, and rearranged the song btw. nobody was supposed to know he played on that record either...didnt stay a secret long.

May be hard for some to seperate the man and the music. In his case, i dont think its hard at all. Because he wasnt writing deep soul searching songs, he was writing great pop tunes. entertainment value is what it is.

As a live performer he was able to make hardened criminals cry..

It can be hard to give credit as something being great when you dont like that kind of music, after all we go by what we like.

But id say his melodies were phenominal, i have no doubt he wrote those.

but people find a way to hate most successful artists anyway, its just the nature of it.

Weird, sick guy, but a great talent, and thats what he was paid for

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