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Mother of Puppies

Hell yeah!

 

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THEY CALL ME LADY MOP
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Chromatography

i thought this was gonna be about the messy ass band, blood on the dance floor :cryga:

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1 minute ago, Chromatography said:

i thought this was gonna be about the messy ass band, blood on the dance floor :cryga:

saaaaame, the emo scene really ruined my brain

 

Генерал Марина Абрамовић
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Celloo Deng

Of course! And we stan the HIStory tour performance of it too :legend:

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she/her 👹🖤 | Vanish Into You 🎶 HMHAS 🎶
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Cruelty

Vicious. From the first beats, Blood on the Dance Floor jumps you, pushes you into this snarling, growling world of femmes fatales and fiery funk and refuses to let you submerge until you’ve succumbed to it. The mix is fantastic, with the aggressively funky bass of the verses twisting into those luscious pre-chorus harmonies. The US overlooked it, the UK sent it to the top of the charts, and we’re still dancing 25 years on.

The five new songs on the parent album range from the vapid to the ingenious, and Blood on the Dance Floor is somewhere in between. It’s clearly a Dangerous outtake, and clearly a Rhythm Nation rip-off (I love Michael and Janet’s playful 90s arms-race rivalry), but it formulates Michael’s lyrical fascination with the predatory woman in exciting new ways. She’s no longer merely abstractly Dangerous, now she’s got a knife – and ‘Susie says it’s right’. The pronouns flutter all over the place – one second ‘she’s out to get me’, the next ‘she got your number’. If you thought you could rest easy after first-person songs like Billie Jean and Dangerous, think again: Blood on the Dance Floor makes its listener the target.

There’s a lot I’d change about this song (some of the synths were dated on arrival, and I hate the meandering fadeout), but Blood on the Dance Floor is a fantastic late example of Michael’s talent for creating sheer atmosphere in a song. This is Smooth Criminal for the 1990s, without the histrionics of some of its predecessors, and it occupies an essential place in his discography.

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PartySick

1990s MJ is my favorite :tony:

He kicked the decade off by joining in on the New Jack Swing revolution with Dangerous, crested the halfway point with an angry and personal album in HIStory, and put BOTDF on top like the perfect little cherry before the 2000s hit.

Sonically, BOTDF is up there with Can't Let Her Get Away, Money, and Unbreakable as my favorite bops :wub:

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Fresco

It's mixed wrong. The whisper verse is obliverated by the track. I couldn't understand almost any of the words until the Suzie line, which is frustrating.  It could have been better.

 

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ProfessionalClown

I thought this was gonna be about the band :bear:

I was ready to drag em 

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