37yo who's just listened to Bad by Michael Jackson for the first time ever, I'm stunned and disappointed in it having taken this long.
The first MJ song I ever heard growing up I think was Earth Song in the mid to late 90s, he just wasn't my cup of musical tea based on that and the fact I was only 7 or 8, but growing up obviously Thriller and a few other singles were out and about on radio and MTV and then came all the controversy, it's kinda just made me not want to go near anything MJ.
Randomly I watched a video tonight of his drummer Jonathan Moffett on YouTube being incredibly precise and super clean playing some of Michael's biggest hits with Smooth Criminal being the final track and I thought I'm going to listen to whatever album Smooth Criminal is on.
So I've sat down and played through Bad through my favourite IEMs in a dark room to really give it a go, it's genuinely incredible, the layers, the vocals, the beats. I've not got to the end of one song and thought "that could be skipped", it was absolutely fantastic start to finish.
I now have the chance to listen to his albums for the first time ever and think I'm going to have to go to Thriller next, with some research in to the musicality of his productions and how he made his music.
I look forward to the next one