Elvis...or Michael?

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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

I did - I was still composing when your post came up.

But I have to ask: are you are blaming (in this case) MJ for other similar acts that followed that are (in your opinion) crap? That doesn't seem like a reasonable possibility. Am I missing something?

Of course I'm not blaming Michael Jackson for the crap that he didn't do.

This is an example of a frustration I sometimes have with this kind of message board discussion.

GD said (in part) "MJ was more than a good performer that presented world-changing music and entertainment, he actually had a heavy personal hand in creating it, and in effecting the changes in the industry that followed in its wake."

I asked him for examples.

GD replied (in part) "The dominance since his career of acts like Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Madonna, etc. They all draw from his style and music, in which he was a major creative component."

The conversation was (at that stage) about influence. If MJ gets assigned credit for the success of talents like Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Madonna etc, then I added to SL's response in which he said " was just about to say if the question is who had more of a bad influence on music, Michael Jackson wins hands down for all the synchronized back-up dancer heavy crap he begat.".

That's all.