The Michael Jackson Anachronism

Yeah, yeah....we get it slick, you're not a fan. But your statements are laughable and don't even warrant addressing one-by-one....but let me retort for someone else's benefit anyway, and then we can all get a chuckle at your ludicrous claims:

"Can't hold a note"
She's Out of My Life, just one of among many other examples...

"Can't write a decent song"
Well clearly "decent" is a subjective matter of taste particularly if you don't like a singer, but by almost any industry-acknowledged standard he was a great songwriter, and in 2002 was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Even being the youngest member of the Jackson 5, he was the lead songwriter of the group. MJ co-wrote We Are the World with Lionel Ritchie, which won Jackson Song of the Year and sold 30 million copies..the most of all time for a single.

"His fake ass voice has no range"
Technically, Michael had one of the finest voices in contempary music. His first advantage is the natural speed of his voice. He had the ability to sing in staccato, and sing complex rhythms in perfect timing. The best recorded example of this is the title track from his 1979 album, Off The Wall. Michael possesses a 4 octave vocal range. (Christina Aguelira has a 3 1/2 octave range, Whitney 3, just to give you an example of great voices). His voice goes from two E's below middle C, to two B's above middle C, or 44 notes. This is an EXTREMELY rare range amongst adult male singers. Essentially, Michael was able to reach octaves that other tenors cannot attain with their natural voice. His voice is NOT falsetto, as many people believe. Of course, MJ does use falsetto, but this is the range of notes he can sing in full voice. If you listen to the butterflies acapella, you can hear that all those high notes are in full voice and not falsetto. In the late 1970s, Jackson's abilities as a vocalist were well regarded. At the time, Rolling Stone compared his vocals to the "breathless, dreamy stutter" of Stevie Wonder. Their analysis was also that "Jackson's feathery-timbred tenor is extraordinarily beautiful. It slides smoothly into a startling falsetto that's used very daringly". 1982 saw the release of Thriller, and Rolling Stone was of the opinion that Jackson was then singing in a "fully adult voice" that was "tinged by sadness". Simultaneously, Jackson started to learn the vocal technique of Speech Level Singing taught by Seth Riggs.

Eddie Murphy joked about MJ, yet was one of the biggest Michael Jackson fans of all time, and the "moonwalk" became a worldwide phenomenon because of Michael Jackson...he sure didn't invent it, but once he did it on the Motown 25th Anniversary show, it immediately became the most talked about performance in years, and worldwide at that...Google it. The YouTube clip of that Motown25 performance has 49 million views. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXhy7ZsiR50

Michael Jackson was a star among stars, so much so that nearly all of the superstars of the time, were almost like starstruck little kids when they performed We Are The World with him. We're talking the giants of the time, in rock (Springsteen, Dylan, Paul Simon), country (Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson), pop (Hall and Oates, Tina Turner, Cyndi Lauper, Huey Lewis, Kenny Loggins), and R&B (Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Dionne Warwick)....at that moment of time, Michael was the biggest of them all.

You're entitled to your opinion, but not your own facts, and your attempt at revisionist history goes over like a fart in church.