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Originally Posted by boo boo
I always lol a little when people call him untalented.
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Maybe what they mean that Michael Jackson does not have the talent that suit their taste. Since they have other critea, for what they think is important, and Michael Jackson does not have the talent they are looking, for them, he is "untalented."
but that doesn't make me lol
I will admit Michael Jackson is talented, but it's his dancing - I'm not impress with his singing or song writing. His dancing can be atrributed to three people:
1. James Brown
2. Bob Fosse
3. Paula Abdul
But that should not detract from his talent, he did have the ablity to dance, and to amalgamate those styles into his own. Yes, he was a good dancer but he was not original by any stretch of the imagination, it was all Qunicy Jones, sorry folks.
and after QJ it was a cheeseball stuff
I see MJ as a dark horse who all of a sudden lets loose a glimpes of the psychological issues he's dealing with, like he does all this great dancing, all these impossible dance moves, and then all of sudden he's rubbing himself??? or trying to save a little girl in "Smooth Criminal" or like singing about universal brotherly love and then smashing a car in "Black or White" video. He doesn't make sense to me and kinda creeps me out.
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Originally Posted by Janszoon
What I'm trying to say though is that grunge didn't take over the mainstream and shove everything else aside, not a by a long shot. It took over mainstream rock, that's it. But back then, just like now, most top 40 music wasn't rock.
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I think that was always true. I always find it strange when they talked about the year Punk broke, it is like everyone in the world was into it. People talk about the Sex Pistols like they were Elvis of their day for shock value, but just as popular, but they weren't and Television like they were Chuck Berry, where everybody stoled thier riffs, but not everybody did. I doubt if Punk was as popular as for people of that genereation, as people make them out to be, more likely those bands are more popular today then when they were back then. During the 70's it was all divided like it's today, there was Hard Rock, Soft Rock, Prog, Funk, Soul, and Disco. To some Punk was a flash in the pan, coarse, krass, and rude, that never amounted to anything, and didn't displaced any of those genres 70's . But for some it was a new beginning, (objectively speaking Grunge (or Punk) is new branch of music not a new musical tree, that transplants an old musical tree.- sorry for stretching a metaphor)