Freddie Mercury vs. Michael Jackson vs. Prince

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Freddie had once-in-a-generation talent, Michael had hee hee, Prince collaborated with Rita Ora

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[Ladle Ghoulash 49,463]

2 minutes ago, TaylorSwift said:

Freddy

Misspelled it and it’s right there. Open the schools.

[TaylorSwift 161,175]

1 minute ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

Misspelled it and it’s right there. Open the schools.

i blame NUTELLA

6 hours ago, NUTELLA said:

Freddy Mercury has the best voice

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1 minute ago, TaylorSwift said:

i blame NUTELLA

My influence!

Close the schools

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2 hours ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

I think that’s fair, but Prince also did experiment quite a bit (Sign O’ The Times was definitely different for him on the whole and still became one of his more iconic records, for example). I also don’t necessarily think having a recognizable style is a huge issue and you could say the same is true of MJ, tbh

I think MJ had the benefit of growing up into stardom so he wound up having a few distinct eras of sound: Motown, Disco/Pop/Funk, Rock/RnB/Pop. I’m not saying this was all some visionary quality of his (he famously rejected the idea of hip hop taking off, mind you), but kinda just happened bc he went from kid to teen to man.

Sign O’ The Times is def unique and that’s why it stands out a lot! I just think for Prince sometimes having that distinct style could hamper his songwriting from the usual tropes or sounds and so while almost never *bad* it would get a bit expected which can be hard for pop music. Michael definitely had this, too, from Bad to Dangerous imo. Invincible feels like he started finally breaking from his rut of near meme affectations.

To that end, though, I think that’s why Prince is so beloved by music nerds bc his technicality and detailed craftsmanship gets more appreciated there than in a pop commercial radio sphere that might simply  say, “yeah it sounds like Prince.”

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1 hour ago, NUTELLA said:

The phrasing was just so avoidable lmaooo

We…could…be caught…we’re both not convicted criminals of thought 

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8 minutes ago, Ziggy said:

We…could…be caught…we’re both not convicted criminals of thought 

I wanna love you!
L.A.T. (Legal-Age Thing!)

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God, I hope I don't get banned by a specific moderator today lmao