Be careful of what you do ’cause the lie becomes the truth
This blog post caught my eye a couple days ago.
Michael Jackson’s Thriller was released in 1982, which is now 28 years ago. It remains a solid album and the main tracks remain rather popular to this day.
Here’s the scary part though, in terms of time, listening to Thriller today is the equivalent of listening to Elvis Presley’s first album at the time that Thriller was released. (Elvis Presley released in 1956)
Now Elvis is widely considered to have been one of the first to bring the musical genre of rock and roll to the forefront, borrowing from black R&B and combining it with big-band. Michael Jackson is obviously Michael Jackson and his impact is just as important in music.
From Elvis to MJ, there was an explosion in musical creativity, with rock and roll, Beatlemania, disco, folk, punk and thousands of other musical acts and styles emerging.
Can the same be said from MJ to today?
I keep coming back to the timeline on that site I linked to above, because despite how much music has advanced from Elvis to MJ, it hasn’t come close to having a similar progression since then.