Elvis...or Michael?

[mousepod]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

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.

Examples?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by mousepod

Examples?

Just off the top of my head:
*Thriller (writing credit for most of the album and of course the video, in which he was a major creative component).
*The commercial aspect of his work: from pure money-making ventures like the Pepsi deal, to his ownership of music catalogs (not that he invented it, but he certainly upped the ante and turned into the mega-scale business it is today), to the creation of the musical-charity business with Quincy Jones (not that music-as-charity didn't exist, but We Are The World was on a whole new scale compared to, say, Band Aid)
*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.


I don't dispute that his influence on the industry was more about increment and scale than innovation, but he did so as an active participant in a way that hadn't really been done since, well, the Beatles.

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Just off the top of my head: [i]
*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.

I 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.