Yea looking back that’s exactly how it was looking fixed for the sake of pride

I'm an MJ superfan but everything after Dangerous was just for his hardcores. The wider public stopped caring about his music and more about his celebrity/controversy.

highly regarded

Rock My World is one of the best pop songs ever..

wow "i'm an mj fan but.." gimmick. this one's new

Relax mate. I'm a bigger MJ fan than King of Pop.

cool story. doesn't mean you didn't use "im a fan but" gimmick to say absolute bullshit

Alright pal. Look at sales after Dangerous, look at charting after Dangerous, look at publicity surrounding MJ after Dangerous. Cats were more interested in his celebrity than they were his music.

Ya'll gotta stop the idol worshipping. I'm not even saying the music was bad.

History came out after Dangerous so all this is still bullshit. stop cosplaying as a fan to get off you hatred. its loser behavior

Why are we saying Drake "fell off"? He did 460k under strict sales regulations that we have yet to see another major artist do 300k+ with

You've never posted in the MJ thread but I'm the hater because I said his music wasn't as popular after Dangerous MJ stans ya'll

its wishcasting. they hope that if they say it a lot, it'll finally come true

before it was "im an mj superfan but", now you're calling me an mj stan for not letting you get your hating off. lmao you couldn't even keep up the fake fan gimmick for long. embarrassing

Can’t say this about any Drake album without it sounding like a provocative joke

Listen mate, it's not mutually exclusive. I can be an MJ superfan and still offer the slightest critique (which was just an observation of public consumption of his music) without being a hater. This type of attack from his stans at anything that deviates from the consensus just proves my point about idol worship.

Check out my channel Lost In Vegas if you want to see some of our MJ reviews.

hold up. am i being trolled. can someone confirm if this is lostinvegas?

i know this is a foreign concept to yall but it’s possible OP could be talking about the quality of the music and not numbers.

wait. was "They don't care about us", "Earth Song" "you are not alone" not consumed that much? I grew up in Nigeria so maybe its continent-based but those are my childhood classics. they're like all timers to me

To what degree? Unless Drake was sitting down chopping samples up himself, this comparison is moot.

nah those songs were definitely all timers when i was growing up. people only say he fell off during that era cus his sales were on a decline compared to thriller and bad era which is a height nobody can ever reach

just had to make sure. cuz i knew those songs before any from thriller and bad so they're lowkey higher on my list. i know its nostalgia-based but hearing someone say he fell off with those made me lose it

I mean in the Apple Music description for Blood On The Dance Floor they say MJ himself only dropped that because HIStory didn’t have the market saturation he wanted

He needed Timbaland and Missy maybe Jodeci 95-98 and he would have had another “run”

My nigga imagine Mike over Swizz Beatz in 1998 type s*** or the NORE neptunes beats he wanted

He should have followed through with that artistic impulse because that’s why Bad worked, new musical styles x the greatest showman in the game

Him spamming new jack swing and the ballad type s*** is akin to Drake spamming NBA 2k trap beats and r&b for IG thirst trappers in their 20’s or Kanye spamming trap and his post 2017 cinematic mash up style of making songs

They all lost “it” when they stopped innovating

yeah i obviously don't know enough of what happened during that era cuz those songs are classics to me. literally grew up on them. apologies to @LOSEMYMIND for overreacting.