Submitted by EQOA_Fanatic t3_zq8coy in todayilearned
That's just a good goddamn song, man.
Part of Toto's underrated run of three consecutive Grammys (their own, with Quincy, and as the band on Thriller).
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.
human nature definitely sounds like a toto song. jackson's version was much better but the ethereal quality of the song definitely indicates its origins.
Not to be pedantic, but Human Nature was not written for Toto IV . Steve himself says that they were mixing Africa (the final track on Toto IV) and that is when his daughter had the incident at school that inspired the use of the phrase as a song title.
Thank you!! I was just thinking I’d like to have heard them perform it, and it did not disappoint!
Also the lead singer to Toto is the son of John Williams, the famous composer.
sprite_sponsorship t1_j0wt7xe wrote
That’s not what I heard about the song’s origins https://youtu.be/YPYaTqP4X68