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The general musical style of each of Michael Jackson’s adult albums

Jackson's music styles are diverse

Pop, rock, romance, jazz, Eemix R&B, rap, and remixes are almost all included.

Each of MJ's albums has songs of different styles, and sometimes different albums can have completely different styles that are eye-catching. And these styles of his were later continuously spread and imitated by people. ?

The following explains its varied music styles from representative albums from the 1970s to the 1990s.

In 1979, the album "Off The Wall"

was hailed as "the perfect combination of disco and spiritual music". The success of "Off The Wall" enabled him to successfully break away from the past. The image of a child star and being regarded by the world as a new generation of adult superstars was undoubtedly a huge turning point for Michael's career. This genius work covering rock, soul, funk, jazz, folk, disco and other elements will always be a classic of "post-Motown charm" and be passed down from generation to generation. The skillful and smooth R&B style and obvious disco tendency of "Off The Wall" made Michael become the Stevie Wonder of the 1980s.

In 1982, the album "Thriller"?

In this album, Jackson used his works to convey a sad and dark message to society. It may be said that he vented his anger in it; Jackson abandoned the boyish falsetto of his early hits (from "I Want You Back" to "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough") and replaced it with A more mature, sad voice to the songs. Among them, the famous song "Beat it" is an anti-social and violent work. MJ and guitarist Eddie Van Halen, known as the Guitar King, performed the amazing and exquisite performance in "Beat it" for the first time to successfully combine R&B and hard rock. Fusion, this excellent cross-border music integration model - a new trend model created by Jackson himself in 1982, thus changing the face of pop music.

On August 31, 1987, the third album "Bad" was released.

"Bad" continued Thriller's music style and expressed Jackson's inner world in the form of autobiography. In the "bad" album, there is a rock song "Dirty Diana" that expresses the helplessness and disgust towards women who strive for fame and fortune, and the inner struggle and resistance in the face of temptation. "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" is a traditional love ballad, while "man in the mirror" is a heart-touching soul song that calls on society to help the poor, expressing confusion and seeking solutions. . The "Bad" album was another huge success for Michael.

On November 31, 1991, Michael released a new album "Dangerous".

Michael began to try the New Jack Swing music that emerged in the late 1980s. The first half of the album was specially created for the new Jack Swing music. The mainstream music evaluation of "Dangerous" was that it was late to apply hiphop music elements, and its music Compared with "Thriller" and "Off The Wall", its influence is relatively average, but the production level of "Dangerous" is still highly recognized, and Jam was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best R&B Single.

In 1995, the album "HIStory" was released.

MJ performed keyboards, synthesizers, drums, percussion and guitar on the History album. HIStory gives people unlimited space for imagination. It mainly records Jackson's hardships and well-known struggles. "History" can be said to be MJ's most personal album up to that time, and also the most controversial of all MJ's albums. The album was released two years after MJ was first accused of child molestation. In the new album, MJ used singing to express his knowledge and emotions about the series of experiences he experienced throughout the case.

For example, "Tabloid Junky", "D.S." and "Money" respectively strongly express MJ's anger at the slander of gossip news, the prosecutor's unfair handling of the case, and the greedy nature of the accuser. In addition, "Scream" sang MJ's long-suppressed inner cry, and in "This Time Around", MJ refuted the false accusations against him.

Cite two songs in the album to represent Jackson’s diverse styles

Song: Earth? Song

Music style: Blues (blues),?gospel (gospel),?opera (opera)

Song: They?Don't?Care?About?us (They?Don't?Care?About?us)?

Music Style: (hip-hop) Hip-hop, hard-rock (hard rock), soul (soul music)?