MJ, Tommy Lee, Mayte. I only bash the bash-worthy and those three definitely qualify.
And if you think I only comment on the MJ threads, you must only read the MJ threads, when you're not posting earth shattering Madonna news.
I guess the reason I come down so hard on MJ is that for so long this wacko has been compared to Prince musically and Prince is so far ahead of MJ musically that there is no comparison. Creatively, intellectually and risk-taking is where Prince excels musically and MJ is stagnant.
Prince's guitar playing has gotten even better over the years. MJ is still moonwalking and doing the same dance steps he was doing 10 years ago. And what's up with the shin guards??
My point is that with the exception of age and race, these two have travelled very different musical paths and have very little in common, musically. Prince was never a pop artist, even when he was hugely popular. He is a brilliant musician, and that is something Michael Jackson will never be.
And while Prince is still looking hella good, MJ, well we've all seen the pictures.

I can see BeeTellTheTruth is humor impaired.
The majority of these posts are opinions, moron

shygirl said:

I meant to address this issue last month when someone said that Mike's dance steps are the same. YES it is the same in the sense that like a jazz musician he has certain basic steps or riffs as it relates to the choreography of any given song. Now take a jazz musician. Let's use Miles for an example, at the beginning of a song let's say "So What" from his 1959 classic [color=blue:9e61fbfa8d:8bdd915751:61d61eb95b]KIND OF BLUE. Well he always plays the basic same riff or vamp on the outset of that song. This is the base of that song and that usually will not fluctuate . However, when he goes into his solo ...that's when the improvisation takes place. You would go to a Miles concert and hear him give a different kind of improvised solo night after night. He may play certain signature riff or what have you but the overall structure of the solo may vary from night to night. That's what good TRUE jazz musician do and that's what makes jazz so great..which is WHY I'm such a big fan of this genre.


Mike does the same thing with his dancing. Let's use his performance of "Billie Jean". We all know that he does the same basic steps at the beginning of the song. When he puts the black hat on his head and thrust his pelvis up and down and then kicks his left up in the air to the left side then right side then throws his hat off his head. He does time after time. Also after the second verse during the instrumental break he always does that "hee hooo" then he does his trademark signature spin move stops then moonwalk stop and does his trademaek spin move again then goes up on his toes. He does all the time for the most part. HOWEVER...at the climax of the song when the muscians break the music down. Mike THEN improvises and does different dance steps. Don't believe it look at how he performed "Billie Jean" on the Motown 25 show in 1983 and look at how Mike has evolved the performance of that song over the years since. It's amazing. Personally, I like the way he performed it on one of his Dangerous shows which MTV cut into and broadcasted on their network in 1992. During the breakdown of that Mike does this tight pop-lock move, but he does it in a robotic motion. He almost look like an actual electronic robot. I thought that was SO TIGHT!!!

Also, he did diferrent dance routine during the breakdown of "Billie Jean" on the 1995 MTV Awards. And if you saw the 30th Anniversary special. He did a different improvised dance routine(that snake move) on the breakdown of Billie Jean during the climax.

Prince is not immune to this either. He does the same thing,he always the same riff and vamps on his songs(it's hard to get around a basic structure or riff in a song..I mean you can but it would be very unorthodox to do this.Imagine LIL MAN starting out a song or his songs going straight into his improvised solo..that would be quite erratic wouldn't you think.

So in essence what Mike does is no diferrent than what Prince or any other instrumentalis or soloist does. It's just they do it through their instruments and Mike does it through his dancing. And also if I might add. Mike is an extremly gifted dancer. He's a natural dancer. Some people have to go strictly by the "script" when dancing, meaning they can't deviate from the basic dance routine and improvise or incorporate new steps. Michael can do this. His dancing and performance talent is unique and genunine.

Mike can't seem to get a break with some people. Mike's one of the greatest entertainers/performers the world over and there's a legit reason for that.

Brother 9/15

did u guys see Axl Rose performance? it was great! the prodution wasn't specatacular but his running around and his voice made it great.

did u guys see Axl Rose performance? it was great! the prodution wasn't specatacular but his running around and his voice made it great.