New Style Of Music?

[ivan_tasev]

Do you think Michael will have other style in the new songs ?I love his style very much and I want him to keep it.

[Llama]

I really hope he doesn't change his style! I love his pop style..please don't change it Michael.
He totally wouldn't suit gangsta stuff. :mellow: *cringes at the thought* :lol:

[Cheater]

I'm sure his music will remain MJ-like but with a more modern style. Off the Wall, Thriller, Bad... don't sound equally.

[Rag Doll]

Good subject!

I REALLY REALLLLLY hope he doesn't :eek: if the new album comes out and it's all modernised and un-MJ like (I'm talking about remixed cr*p with Wil.I.Am compared to something like Dangerous) then I'm just gonna smack my head against a wall and go WHYYYYYY??!!?

I hope he doesn't change and that he sticks to what he knows because that's one of the reasons why he's so famous and so great, and why I admire him...he doesn't blend in at all. He stands alone in his own catagory of uniqueness and if he looses that then....*hangs head*

Don't f*ck it up MJ :sleep: PLEASE!

[Liquid47]

He's had different styles. That's why we have Eras, don't we?

[MJ_is_mah_life]

I want him to do what he wants but heaven help me if it means been the next version of BEPs....
I like his original way of taking the current style and making it his without leaving it completely...

[Rag Doll]

He's had different styles. That's why we have Eras, don't we?

I dunno. I tend to associate eras more with the "look" :lol:

[DANGEROUS-x]

I don't want MJ to stray into the hip-hop/rap/gangster column. :eek::no:

He should just keep doing his own 'Michael Jackson' thing. It works for him. :)

[BrOkEn BaRbiE]

I dunno. I tend to associate eras more with the "look" :lol:

Me too! :lol:

I hope he doesn't change - I didn't like it when it changed for Vince.. I just want him to be Michael Jackson - the Michael Jackson he's always been! :crazylol: He excites me! :crazylol:

[Mr. Been Told]

I see it like this...
It's really hard to say, because music these days is sort of at the Off The Wall stage with slightly more modern beats. People are re-doing all of that old MJ stuff.
So being "modern" and "up to date" for Michael would mean going back in his artistic path.
The modern and supposedly original artists today sound a lot like Michael did on Off The Wall and Thriller.
So with that in mind I was really curious about Invincible when it first came out. Because with Off The Wall, Thriller, Bad, Dangerous and HIStory it was a case of growth and getting better and better. So 6 years after HIStory I was expecting a LOT. I thought this was going to be like a musical revolution.
And if it hadn't been for the problems between Mike and Sony Music, maybe the album would have been released around 1999 and it would have been at least up to date. The way it ended being was a bit like Michael chasing those who are chasing him musically.
And so with the huge expectations I had for Vince, the result was (in some parts) a real disappointment.
Not only musically, but lyrically as well. The simplicity and single-dimension-ness (lol I know that's not a word) of the lyrics to many of the Vince songs - to me - was just one more aspect of Michael trying to "sound up to date". Because most songs today lack depth lyrically.
I mean listen to something like Who Is It, Give In To Me, Dangerous, Earth Song, Stranger In Moscow. Lyrically those songs are amazing. The depth, the mood and the feel of those songs are so original and authentic. I really missed that depth throughout most of Vince.
Wonderful exceptions were (for example) Whatever Happens and Heartbreaker. Really good songs. But then you got Don't Walk Away which is musically as well as lyrically speaking really, really "late nineties Backstreet Boys". I mean, yeah it's Michael and I love it, but Vince wasn't anywhere near as innovative as Dangerous or HIStory.

So, the reason I'm writing all of this is to explain why I hope he does NOT try to sound "up to date". I hope he just goes with what he feels. I know he can do it. Michael is a great songwriter and musician. I just really don't want another Invincible.
I hope he goes with what HE likes.

[Captain3o]

Michael has his own style. I love that about his music. It doesn't sound like anything else and with each new album he delivers a brand new style comes along. I haven't seen an artist who can do that. Any who I agree gangster doesn't suit him. Maybe a 40's gangster sure but a modern gangster makes me just want to gag.

[VinceWilliam]

to love Michael is to love the 'danger' zone. what is his style? it's like a shape shifter in star trek. you just don't know what is next. just when you think it's beat it, it's childhood. when you think it's little susie, it's monkey business. when you think it's remember the time, it's in the back. when you think it's gone too soon, it's black or white. when you think it's will you be there, it's heaven can wait, or butterflies. when you think it's baby be mine, it becomes money, then keep the faith, then tgim 08. there...i just covered the extent of the grammy awards, with twice the quality. so, if you want a ceiling, it's best that you stop being a MJ fan. Michael is proof that inspiration is job one. not originality. you can be original and tank like a *********

so yeah...i love MJ's 'style', and i always will.

he is the first artist to have no musical 'style'. with him comes the precedent of.....Michael Jackson. not....a 'style'.

[Hot_Street]

Michael doesn't really have ONE specific style! Fans who think like that tend to overlook his real genius tracks. He's not merely a pop singer - this is a guy who has sung soul, r'n'b, rock, new jack swing, jazz, latin, country, pop, blues, classical, opera, etc and you wanna pin his style down to POP?!?!

Michael just creats whatever with thought and makes sure it stands out. If anyone thinks the Michael Jackson sound is Billie Jean, think again cos that's just ONE part of it. Little Susie is another part and that is genius.

[Beat-It]

Well, as long as he sticks to his style, it's great.

[Llama]

I don't want MJ to stray into the hip-hop/rap/gangster column. :eek::no:


Oh God, if that happens I swear I'm going to cringe so much. :mellow:
*imagines MJ as a rapper* :eek: :toofunny: He doesn't suit it at all. :mellow:

Has anyone seen the Jet (I think..) interview from Bad era where he's talking about the IJCSLY intro and he's like "I did the rap.." I just found it funny the way he called it rap, when it was basically talking in a kind of sexual way. :mellow: :lol:
Love you Mike. :) :wub:

[Mr. Been Told]

Well I guess back then you called any spoken part of a song a rap. Like for example they also called the stuff Vincent Price did on Thriller a rap.
Here's what Wikipedia has to say about the word "rap"
Rapping (also known as emceeing, MCing, spitting, or just rhyming) is the rhythmic spoken delivery of rhymes and wordplay, one of the elements of hip hop music and culture. Although the word rap has sometimes been claimed to be a backronym of the phrase "Rhythmic African Poetry", "Rhythm and Poetry", "Rhythmically Applied Poetry", "Rapping About Poetry," "Racing Always Pacing," or "Rhythmically Associated Poetry", use of the word to describe quick speech or repartee long predates the musical form[1], and is abbreviated from the English word "rapid", which is from the Latin rapidus. The word had been used in British English since the 16th century, and specifically meaning "to say" since the 18th. It was part of the African American dialect of English in the 1960s meaning "to converse", and very soon after that in its present usage as a term denoting the musical style.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rap

[Hot_Street]

For those who don't know, Michael has ALREADY gone into the hip hop route and has already done rap - rapping isn't one particular style really, so he HAS done it. One USA reviewer called MJ the King of Hip Hop with Scream even tho he doesn't go full on with hop on his albums.