Jay-Z says Beyoncé is an evolution of Michael Jackson

[Joaco95 1,631]

idk never understood the hype around michael, maybe because I wasnt born in his era peak

all that I know if that everyone started to love him again after his death

+ lmao @ ggd 

 

[Meat 18,962]

38 minutes ago, Joaco95 said:

idk never understood the hype around michael, maybe because I wasnt born in his era peak

all that I know if that everyone started to love him again after his death

+ lmao @ ggd 

 

It doesn’t matter if you understood the hype or not lol he still is the BIGGEST musician to have ever lived. His appeal and impact remains untouched. 

[Guillaume Hamon 6,683]

2 hours ago, FentyGa said:

and she is

she’s the greatest living performer, and this site hates to see her thrive

She's the greatest living performer but she's still far of MJ talent, success, impact. Him adding that she has what he hadn't really makes it sound like he meant she's a superior version of him.

You always dismiss folks disliking something about her here as just a bunch of haters ignoring it when they make valid points.

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3 hours ago, dojo said:

i would even go as far to say that B is bigger, that's just my opinion 

You know I like you but…

[SummerBoy223 180]

cringe 

She'll never reach the global impact of Michael. 

[Cameltoe Chariot 15,281]

Does anyone ever stop to think about the fact that both Bey and Jay are some of the BLANDEST personalities in music? 

And comparing Bey to MJ is just... hilarious  he had more charisma in one finger than Bey has in her whole body.

[HookerOnAChurch 6,799]

 

[KevinWright 1,668]

Ok. But no.

[Cruelty 6,172]

1 hour ago, Joaco95 said:

idk never understood the hype around michael, maybe because I wasnt born in his era peak

all that I know if that everyone started to love him again after his death

+ lmao @ ggd 

 

Simply put, no other artist, living or dead, has a discography like his. If the only thing Michael Jackson had ever released was the paranoid psychodrama of Billie Jean, or the anthemic fervour of Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’, or the fury of They Don’t Care About Us, or the desperation of Earth Song, he would be remembered as a legend. The fact that all of these exist within one person’s career is nothing short of a miracle. The level of talent required to consistently write like that, dance like that, produce like that, perform like that, is simply beyond the majority of other musicians.

I know most of us weren’t alive when MJ was releasing music (myself included) but as soon as you begin to take a look at the climate back then, it’s clear that he was the music industry. ‘Billie Jean’ is more or less the reason why Black artists’ videos began to be played on MTV. He broke the Wembley Stadium attendance record. 500 million people tuned in for the premiere of Black or White. His comeback shows sold 750,000 tickets in a couple of hours. Like, he might not be to your tastes, but he was objectively a phenomenon in every sense of the word. The way he carefully manipulated his image, alternately fostering his legendary status and maintaining an intensely-guarded privacy, redefined what ‘celebrity’ could mean. And, as a deeply troubled and flawed human being, he remains an utterly fascinating object of study.

First song ever to debut at number 1 in the US. Highest-earning dead celebrity. Most-viewed Wikipedia page for a musician. Thriller alone was number 1 for 37 weeks and contains what almost everybody has agreed is one of the best pop songs ever written. The records go on and on and on. It’s easy to see why he’s one of the best-selling artists of all time.

Nobody will ever be on his level. I just don’t believe it’s possible.

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i mean hes her husband so its nice b̶u̶t̶ ̶d̶e̶l̶u̶s̶i̶o̶n̶a̶l̶ that he thinks that about her i guess 

even michael didnt believe his own hype like these two do

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1 hour ago, Joaco95 said:

idk never understood the hype around michael, maybe because I wasnt born in his era peak

all that I know if that everyone started to love him again after his death

+ lmao @ ggd 

 

You've got to remember that throughout the late 60s and the entirety of the 1970s, the whole world watched little Michael grow up on TV and on the radio as part of the Jackson 5 (and then later when they renamed themselves The Jacksons). He was the boy next door, who by 1979 was becoming a man, and it seemed like everyone was rooting for him, from the greats like Ray Charles and James Brown and Diana Ross, to the Bible Belt of white middle America, to Japan, to everywhere. By 1982 he was literally a god, it was almost fairytale like how he became exactly the superstar everyone thought and expected him to be. When he died in 2009 people remembered how much they loved him all over again through the time machine that is YouTube. Some of his videos are almost at 1 billion views, so it's new generations of kids are growing up with his music all over again. For 30 years he made classic pop, gospel, soul, dance, r&b, funk and rock songs, with a new wave glam attitude but also an appreciation for Broadway style choreography, and Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire routines. He will forever be the King of Pop.

[Werewoof 2,476]

They’re both wonderful. I know J is proud of his wife, as he should be, but really there’s no need to even mention MJ. Beyoncé is wonderful, she doesn’t need to be compared to other artists for her talent and accomplishments to shine 

[Dojo 19,628]

1 hour ago, Munchlax said:

You know I like you but…

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5 hours ago, Argentum said:

Kinda feel like Beyonce is absent from everything that's going on.

Like where is she?

I get it when she shows up, she has an impact but i always forget about her in between

That’s the way it should be.  Folks need to be missed sometimes in order to be more appreciated when they come back. 

[Thomas P 18,479]

Bey’s a better performer with better music oop 

 

 

 

Half-kidding lol. Just a stan over here, but really the two shouldn’t be compared they’re very different