The thing about Jackson is that, unlike a lot of pop stars today, he didn't need 12 or 13 other people to write and produce his songs. There were only two or three songwriters max on Thriller, and all of those songs kick ass. Not to mention you had an all star cast on the various instruments (including all the members of Toto, who were probably the tightest band on the planet next to the lineups Steely Dan or Miles Davis would assemble).
That being said, I'd probably be sick of him too if I was a kid in '82-'83, considering how much his music saturated the radio back in the early 80's. Phil Collins and Genesis had the same problem a few years later in the second half of the decade.
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