i'm pretty impressed with this so far (only up to "place with no name" which is great)
pretty 'good' in a sense but there's definitely something going on with the vocals that's a bit creepy
not picking up on this, you thinking too much autotune?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 15:23 (one year ago) link
I wish I could wipe JT's glassy-eyed smirk from the video, but it's a jam
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 15:26 (one year ago) link
Ditto; it's an extremely well edited video aside from including JT
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 15:29 (one year ago) link
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, February 14, 2023 9:26 AM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglinkI wish I could wipe JT's glassy-eyed smirk from the video, but it's a jam
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, February 14, 2023 9:26 AM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
on the plus side, when i was just listening to it i honestly couldn't tell he was on the song
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 15:36 (one year ago) link
it's not all the tracks but there are a few that feel so cut and paste where you can tell it was assembled from a bunch of different takes, which I think is kind of odd given his vocal approach. clearly they wanted all those MJ signature vocal tics but they all sound like they're pulled from different recordings, so it has a real stuttered flow to it. and yeah the autotune is a bit much in spots, like "Slave to the Rhythm" right now kinda sounds like an AI bot during the verses. admittedly this is just kind of how pop music is made nowadays, so maybe it's just knowing MJ was dead when it came out really that makes the necromancy apparent. it's actually a bit uncomfortable knowing it's probably better than an album he would've made while he was still alive.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 15:41 (one year ago) link
ah gotcha
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 15:58 (one year ago) link
what went wrong after 1995? were the accusations proved on trial? who were mj enemies?
― CerebralCaustic, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:29 (one year ago) link
wonder who transcribed the lyrics to billie jean home demo
https://i.imgur.com/0FO8ae5.png
is there anywhere you can hear him directing his siblings singing the choir to billie jean as he's writing it? or is that just a story I read somewhere
on another note can't believe "Chicago" is one of his most popular songs now? maybe a tiktok thing
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 22 March 2023 08:23 (one year ago) link
I happened upon Nelson George's Thriller: 40 the other night: while I certainly think a close examination of how the music is made, the context in which it occurred, should be the paramount rationale, I was struck that no mention was made of the fact that even then Jackson's megalomania was ascending; his obsession with being the biggest and the best deserves to be interrogated, in light of History in 1995, where his fixation on his near deification becomes particularly demented. You don't have to talk about his paedophilia or his efforts to erase his physical connection to his heritage to acknowledge that he was deeply disturbed.
― veronica moser, Friday, 8 December 2023 15:52 (four months ago) link
the story that sticks out is after Thriller sets a record by selling something like 80 million copies, he tells everyone he wants Bad to sell 160 million. which apparently he was serious about! its like if the night after Wilt scored 100 points he went out and said "I'm gonna score 200 in the next one"
― frogbs, Friday, 8 December 2023 16:00 (four months ago) link