I loved the show and thought it was awesome. But.. what was the point of it? He didn’t really debut anything we haven’t already heard. Again, I’m glad we got the show.. just a little confused what the purpose was lol.

Maybe just to perform and connect with the fans.. doesn’t need to be anything deeper than that I guess.

to kickstart the new era. and he sang a lot of new songs

How many beyond what was already on his IG? Two?

REACH (incoming MJ rant)

Quincy wasn’t even doing that much, his impact is lowkey overstated.

Q often would reject some of Michael’s stronger material (Throwing Your Life Away, Price of Fame, Fly Away) for songs by other writers, try to remove other songs Michael would write to bring in others.

for BAD specifically, Q didn’t even like Smooth Criminal, didn’t want it on the album, this caused Michael to fire him over this. This was the straw that broke the camel’s back as he had been doing other things; trying to track digital instrumentals; synths as if they were live, acoustic instruments. Losing quality often, what Q would do with his process would end up losing certain characteristics that Michael loved about his versions of the songs.

Smooth Criminal was going to be the original title track for BAD, Q also liked to stick to formula, notice how BAD has a duet with a famous older contemporary; Michael’s cousin Stevie Wonder, like Thriller had Paul McCartney. Dirty Diana was both Billie Jean and Beat It, the rock track of the album. The first single is the curve ball, the softer song, the duet, just like Thriller with The Girl is Mine. There’s the love song, which was another duet, BAD almost had more outside writers but Michael wasn’t having that.

Michael thought his contract with Q was up; they signed a 3 album deal, that Q would produce 3 records of Michael’s, Michael thought the ET storybook was that. He was ready to strike out as the Producer with John Barnes in the chair in place of Q, that did not happen. A lot of good material just sits hidden and missing in the vault, his current Estate heads, act like nothing is there.

To end this rant; this is for sure a reach as Q would later go on to s*** on Michael and lie on his name, but also still love on him at the same time. I’ll say it like this, if Q was all that, how come he couldn’t produce another Michael Jackson with all the other talent and artists he worked with? Given he’s Quincy Jones and was that guy, no?

It was Michael, go check out the unreleased tracks I mentioned, if you’re interested I can go more in depth on what BAD was like before Quincy joined the project and started working on it.

The REAL unsung hero is Bruce Swedien, may God Rest His Soul.

Issa reach, see reply above.

We only heard WMU in “full” and even that was half mumbled but mostly finished lyrics without the intro, or “The Crowd” as it’s called on the setlist. We got the full TMBTLA, a completely new song Dancing In the Flames, new Carti and The Weeknd, plus full versions and longer versions of songs we were given previews of. So we only really heard teasers, we hadn’t really “heard” the songs like that tbh.

Songs amazing lol can’t wait to hear it CDQ

Abel please

I ALWAYS WIN.

WHILE YOU B****ES ATE WE STARVED…..

theguardian.com/music/article/2024/sep/08/the-weeknd-review-sao-paulo-brazil-concert

x.com/nmjmredux/status/1832717672892498126?s=46

Lol. Garbage.

hold your heart is being copyright claimed as “regular”

so it might actually be the title?

New AirPods reveal with the new single

I WILL BE THERE

this might actually happen

"there's nothing better than the new airpods and brand new single by The Weeknd playing in them"

I feel like it was obvious

Does it mean a live sick album is coming though

I get she's not Bella but why do people hate

She really is on her sexxy redd timing