In December 1982, the author of this text, aged 14, was sitting in the kitchen of her parents’ apartment listening to the radio. Actually already taken by New Wave and the beginnings of the so-called “NDW”, she mightn’t sit on her chair any longer when she heard the first bars of “Billie Jean”. This bass line and this rhythm are too irresistible, too perfect. It’s hard to imagine how many Christmas wish lists the album might have been on back then.
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The whole package, put together by Jackson and his genius producer Quincy Jones, has since shipped itself over and over once more around the world, over 100 million times. Eight Grammys and 500 weeks on the US charts were the result of overflowing talent and investing in lavish video clips unlike any seen before. There’s just no failure on this album. Well, certain sounds now seem old-fashioned, some lines of text sleazy (“She likes the way I stare at her” or “Pretty young thing”), but since we’re still dealing with similar failures today, it has to be on a different level to be discussed.
Jackson was able to continue on his road to success following THRILLER before he passed away in 2009, shaken by a lonely and strange life despite everything. Whatever his crimes, however he felt when hip-hop took over and he was unseated, THRILLER remains. The cross-generational masterpiece will be released on LP and double CD with previously unreleased bonus material.
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