So, what do a 55 year old black Muslim inmate and an 18 year old white Mormon pop star have in common? They both think I should own this album. So I bought it. It is boss. This song especially:
Enjoy :)
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4 days ago
01 July 2009
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That's some interesting music, Brandy.
Speaking of recommendations, you put up a link on Twitter a little earlier quoting David Cook as saying that Michael Jackson made pop music "bigger than just music." But a lot of people older than you are sad about losing the Michael Jackson from the time when it was still mostly about music.
In a piece you probably wouldn't like much, Sippican Cottage recommends this compilation. Because young Michael "could belt out a song or croon a ballad with the emotional intensity of an adult, the range of an opera singer, and the pure joy in life that a little boy knows. And at Motown, they knew what to do with it."
Example:
Never Can Say Goodbye.
"The bass percolates all over, never really repeating itself, never really straying far either, and carrying the simple ballad on its back. And Michael swoops and soars, declaiming the lyrics perfectly, and always completely in control of the the song, and his singing. And there are those moments in the song, where you think he'll chicken out, and drop into another register, or bail out from a note he held too long for another singer, or break the reins and run all over the place, like a bad singer singing the national anthem, but he never misses. There's all sort of strings and flutes and aural wallpaper at the end, trying to keep up with him, but they can't get a word in edgewise, not with that singing."
So, what do you think?
We just got that album the other day- I haven't listened to the whole thing yet but I really like what I've heard.
My Mama was saying this evening that she had a friend who never got into solo Michael Jackson, but just loved "Rockin' Robin" era Jackson Five :) He really sang his little heart out as a wee kid!
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