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EQOA_Fanatic OP t1_j0x837d wrote

Reply to comment by mnfimo in TIL the song 'Human Nature' by Michael Jackson was originally written by the band Toto for their album, 'Toto IV'. The only reason the song officially became Michael's is because Quincy Jones heard Toto's demo of the song and suggested that it would fit better on Michael's album, 'Thriller'. by EQOA_Fanatic

Dude, I wrote this in a comment in another thread earlier, but it must have been wild to live in this time with this music. All these world-famous, amazing artists and producers all working together on multiple projects and ultimately producing some of the most timeless music in the last 50 years... must have been insane to see in-person.

Today's music often does not seem nearly as carefully crafted. Not to say it's bad by any stretch of the imagination. There are some amazing artists writing great music today. But I don't see many artists approaching music the way Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson did in the 80s. What producer today writes an album from the approach of "Treat evert song as it's own isolated single"? Who's selling millions of albums in one week in 2022 besides maybe Taylor Swift? Michael Jackson was doing it in the 80s for multiple weeks in a row, in a pre-modern internet, pre-streaming, pre-downloading era of the world.

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