>>8671856He came along as a kid at a time when music had all its modern masters, and grew up learning from them. His dad basically beat perfection into him, to the point where he neared autistic levels of practicing his moves, even into adulthood (see video below).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKwisPwvtb0He'd do this shit for hours and hours a day, everyday, and had been doing that since he was a small kid with no break.
Musically, he branched off just as all the funk, soul, disco side of music was re-combining with rock, synth, and heavy metal, to form a genre called "post-disco" - a form of electro, funk, and rock. Old disco was just about dying, and hard rock, synth were about to explode, that's when Thriller came out with all the elements in one album. There're more elements to the phenomenon, but it's boring and long.
