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What's the Most Overrated MJ Album?

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Bad for me. It just has no flow and no consistency. For me it's a "singles" album but not an album as a whole with a concept and a flow to it
 
As far as highbrow music critics are concerned, Bad is very disjointed and sounds like a collection of unrelated songs (each one had a different writer after all), but it’s one of his more popular albums. After Dangerous, everything tapered off in popularity, but his first four albums are very well known.

Off the Wall is genre-locked in disco, although it’s easily among the best of the genre. Thriller is excellent, but very overhyped; some of the love songs are incredibly cheesy. Dangerous has the same corniness but more from him trying to do social commentary tracks (“Heal the World” is the most early 90s song ever written. That’s not a compliment.)

Shoot, this is turning into a critique of his whole career... uh, to answer your question I’d say it’s a toss up between Thriller and Bad as to which is more overrated. Probably Thriller, since it’s been mythologized over the years and is now considered almost untouchable among fans and non-fans alike.
 
i don't think 'thriller' is overhyped by fans at all. look at the results of this poll. if anything, they take it for granted and often refer to it as 'carefree pop fluff'. ignoring the lyrics and music of; 'startin' somethin', 'beat it', 'billie jean', 'thriller', and 'human nature'. all of which created the foundation for his later work - including the videos
 
Invincible is a better album that deserves more acclaim than Dangerous and History from my point of view. I find the latter overestimated while I find it artistically very average and clumsy as an album (the lyrics are rather poorly written). Off The Wall is not overestimated I think, quite the contrary. It is underestimated by the general public and has it fanbase. Bad and Thriller are also very valued but clearly they deserve it they are excellent albums.

I think Dangerous is not bad but honestly when some tell me that it's his best album, I don't agree. It's already well below what he's used to us.

I would still go on Dangerous (which I like) and History because I almost never hear negative remarks about these two albums.
 
analogue said:
Within the fanbase - Invincible
Within the general public - Off The Wall

I like Invincible, but I think fans really overrated it when they say it's as good as MJ's previous albums. And while Off The Wall is a great album, I don't understand how critics can label that MJ's most genius work ever, when he's made songs like Who Is It, Will You Be There, They Don't Care About Us, Is It Scary.
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I sincerely agree,tbh.
Can't fanthom how these early pieces get so much attention even though they're so impressively shallow in message,rather simple in composition (when compared to his later work,at least) and deeply unimpressive vocally (for most of the part),in contrast to what he'd later deliver during his career..
This is going to be an unpopular opinion,I'm aware,but I'd actually go as far as saying that the entire "Q trilogy" is massively overestimated,when put next to what he went on to release during the following decade,all things considered..
 
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Invincible is his most overrated work. Overrated by fans who can’t accept it is mediocre at best. It killed his music career basically

Immortal MJJ said:
Can't fanthom how these early pieces get so much attention even though they're so impressively shallow in message,rather simple in composition (when compared to his later work,at least)
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They are not overproduced, keep it simple and get better results. His later work has so many sounds and recorded tracks that just get buried in the mix
Immortal MJJ said:
and deeply unimpressive vocally (for most of the part),in contrast to what he'd later deliver during his career..
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I disagree, Michael sounded most bright and energetic in his earlier work. He turned his vocals into an instrument resulting into an angry incomprehensible sound and articulation. I admire the reinvention and uniqueness but I will always pick his 70s/early 80s vocal style.
 
filmandmusic said:
Invincible is his most overrated work. Overrated by fans who can’t accept it is mediocre at best. It killed his music career basically


They are not overproduced, keep it simple and get better results. His later work has so many sounds and recorded tracks that just get buried in the mix

I disagree, Michael sounded most bright and energetic in his earlier work. He turned his vocals into an instrument resulting into an angry incomprehensible sound and articulation. I admire the reinvention and uniqueness but I will always pick his 70s/early 80s vocal style.
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You do make a solid point,I respect your opinion therefore 💜
 
It's actually Blood on the Dance Floor. As cool as they are, the record itself is an outlier. And not strictly, necessary. Incredible Set of songs though.
 
In the fan community, Invincible. It's has great moments, but it lacks little bit of Michael magic to make it truly shine
 
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