>>17480051Very simple business really.
Thriller has songs on it that'll hit in a lunchroom, a pub, a nightclub, school proms, and covers a shitload of bases.
Thriller itself is a fancy disco song they rebranded and wrote new lyrics for because Starlight was dime repellant.
Billie Jean's more straight laced and grown up, while Beat It and Wanna Be Starting Something rock out in their own different ways.
And then there's Human Nature in there, a ballad to melt all the chicks' hearts with.
What is Back in Black by comparison?
A, D, E, A. All over the whole album.
The songs are great, but they're all the same.
But do you know what really launched that gimmick into the stratosphere?
Michael Jackson was the first black performer on MTV.
That album has 3 music videos they could play all day, every day, and they did.
Back In Black predates that, and didn't get the rub from MTV cutting promos to put them over all the time.
