I'd have to easily say Prince. If you took "Thriller" away from MJ...does he get the high powered producers for his next project "Bad"? MJ woulda been solid after "Off The Wall" but I don't think he woulda been anywhere near as huge as he was had 'Thriller' never dropped and blew up.

Prince was already making a strong go of it with the success of "DM", "Controversy" and "1999"..."Purple Rain" gave him access to MORE people but his musical talents were already starting to get some recognition and heat.

Plus, after 'Thriller'...MJ started to slowly lose sight of reality.

Madonna.

u'd have too many mj threads. Man mods have got to do something about this

thesexofit said:

Cloudbuster said:

Ah yes. That one

I know u know that north and south song. "iam a man not a boy". U and chris text it to each other daily.

U'd love linear.

Get back to school, fool.

Cloudbuster said:

I wish. We use to rib the girlies about that song by north and south and shout "whoooooaaaaa" at the end of the line "iam a an not a boy".


I wonder what happened to them? They were s club 7 but before

thesexofit said:

They probably work for McDonalds.

Cloudbuster said:

cloudy that was too obvious. They are all doing degree's in songwritng.

Sure.

?

Focus, children...FOCUS! LOL!

Eroticist said:

Those who favour Prince will say Prince.

Those who favour Michael will say Michael.

I still say Madonna.

Cloudbuster said:

I say without "please hammer don't hurt 'em" hammer would of been a respectable rapper.

This thread is buggered.

Cloudbuster said:

What a beautiful response


I wanna kiss you

lilgish said:

Never did. Now, do you have an answer?

jayaredee said:

I'd gladly snog you but your org girlfriend would probably tear our throats out.

Cloudbuster said:

She doesn't have to know, hunky

jayaredee said:

Not a chance. That girl is like a police dog. If there's trouble, she'll find it.

Eroticist said:

Without them, and their major hit albums, there's no crossover of Black music into the mainstream. Both would have been eclipsed in black music by hip-hop. MJ and Prince would be doing double bills with the likes of "the time", Rick James and such.

That's just real.

Michael Jackson

lilgish said:

That's not accurate. There would have been others to crossover so to say it woas ONLY MJ and Prince to get a crossover audience isn't correct at all. Cuz in time, White America ALWAYS borrows from Black America, and music has ALWAYS been THE BEST EXAMPLE.

SHUT UP ALREADY WITH THIS MJ AND PRINCE CRAP.....MY GOOOOOD PRINCE IS SO MUCH BETTER

Unfortunately MJ

Eroticist said:

The crossover of Thriller and later PR was much different then other crossovers in that it blurred the lines of black\white radio and the way blacks were marketed. Black radio and Black specific awards are a thing of the past. 26 million, 14 million, what black artist could sell that many and crossover???? If they didn't crossover they would be relegated to the classic r&b circuit. Thriller and PR changed the face of music. I doubt any other black artist could crossover like that, name one that has done it since.

lilgish said:

Bob Marley is as big of an international icon. But when did he crossover? after his death?

Well we'd still have the superior Off The Wall and 1999 albums now, wouldn't we?

I reckon it wouldn't be much different.

mancabdriver said:

Explain.

lilgish said:

Ok, I can slightly feel you on that one. Good shit. Thanx.