Genre: Soul
Places I remember: Marbecks Records (Auckland)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Beat It - remember him this way!
Gear costume: Billy Jean
Active compensatory factors: While Billie Jean has lost a little of its freshness via over-exposure over the years (and some of the songs on the album have definitely not aged well), Beat It remains a stunning thing of beauty. A song (and video) for the ages!
MJ's finest moment of joyous energy!
As a whole, the album rode a tidal wave of success via MTV's exposure of Thriller, Beat It and Billy Jean, but it lacked the cohesion of Off The Wall. Just sayin'.
The playful Paul McCartney duet, The Girl Is Mine, is worthwhile but overall, Thriller has too much filler material. Maybe that's harsh and the high water mark of Beat It shades a lot of the songs, but for a megaseller, you'd expect more consistency right?
Where do they all belong? Bad was next and it could not compete sales wise, but it did its best creatively speaking.
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