John Lennon

^also a good choice

the communist?

King of Pop (that isn't actually rock music).

:laughing:

Yeah, no.

If by better you mean spectacularly awful than yes.

:rofl:

Michael and the several writers he worked with pushed the genre forward together. I don't think an artist gets to play the influence card when they also had songwriters with them writing what they thought the public wanted to hear.

I personally like Prince's music more than Michael's. Obviously me suggesting that one can be called better than the other was a joke (hence the smiley).

Michael was influencial in the way he peformed, both as a singer and dancer, he also wrote a lot of his most memorable songs.

But really, with the logic people use to discredit Michael, you'd might as well say that Motown artists weren't very talented or important at all. Just because they had a team of people write their songs for them.

The Temptations, The Supremes, The Four Tops, Martha and The Vendellas.

They weren't that great were they? I mean, Berry Gordy, Norman Whitford, Barrett Strong, Ashford & Simpson, Frankie Wilson, Smokey Robinson. Those were the songwriters, not them.

So before you say The Temptations were the greatest R&B group of all time, just remember. At least Color Me Badd wrote their own songs.

Are you retarded? Michael was the performer. He had the charisma, the vocal skills, the dance moves, everything. Everyone else that helped Michael write those records, with the exception of Quincy Jones, are just a lot of faceless names.