ok i’m reevaluating my grade given to Invincible…i was thinking about it. this may just be due to the fact i no longer like pop music, however i didnt consider myself a pop music fan when i got into MJ with HIStory…but.

this is my order of how i prefer mj’s cds until now
1. dangerous
2. bad
3. history
4. thriller
5. off the wall

off the wall is only last cuz it’s so disco and dated. thriller and history have the possibility of being switched on the list. however history has more sentimental value to me than the others cuz that’s what got me into mj to begin with. ANYWAY. i’m going to do a comparison of invincible and HIStory.

even tho critics hated HIStory, i think it contains some really brilliant songs…1. stranger in moscow 2. earth song are just brilliant, beautiful songs. scream is awesome. yana is…pretty. tabloid junkie and history are funky. but stranger in moscow and earth song totally redeem the whole album. i like history. i fastforward through DS, Childhood usually, and Little Susie and Smile get skipped….but overall, yeah I like it.

now invincible. i’m on my 5th listen to the cd more or less. none of the songs strike me as being overly brilliant, which i was expecting. every MJ cd has at least one song that blows my mind
Off The Wall – “i can’t help it”
Thriller – “human nature” and “lady in my life” plus all the hits 😛
Bad – “liberian girl”
Dangerous – “give into me”, “who is it”, “in the closet”, “dangerous” – ok the whole album minus heal the world and gone too soon lol
HIStory – “stranger in moscow” & “earth song”
Blood on the Dance Floor (which i didn’t count above cuz it’s a remix EP) – “is it scary”

what is mindblowing on invincible? to me, nothing. The closest anything comes to mind blowing is cry. i like the cd. the fast songs are way cool, very funky. the ballads, most i don’t like. As I said cry is great, but it’s not up to the mind blowing caliber of SIM and ES on HIStory….it’s only partially mindblowing hah…mj SOUNDS spectacular on this cd. his voice is the best i’ve heard it in a very long time, maybe ever. it’s very clear, very good range. he tried some vocal techniques that are alot different (ie 2000 watts)…so i really like that aspect of it.

as a whole i think invinicible is very disorganized. the track listing is all wrong. it should be more like this:
1. unbreakable
2. break of dawn
3. invincible
4. don’t walk away
5. butterflies
6. you rock my world
7. speechless
8. heart breaker
9. the lost children
10. privacy
11. heaven can wait
12. cry
13. 2000 watts
14. you are my life
15. whatever happens
16. threatened
or something like that. at least some kind of innerspersing of ballads and fast tracks. because the lump of 3 fast songs with raps at the end, and then ballads for most of the rest of the album with a fast song thrown in here and there…it’s not good. i think unbreakable is a great opener, and threatened is a great closer. you rock my world is good in the middle, because it’s the first single…it’s almost a “highlight” of the disc. but its like, ballad…ooh another ballad…and another…ok fast track…ballad…ballad…ballad…

i tried not to read alot of press about the album, the interviews with rodney jerkins etc…but it seemed to me like it should have been WAY more pop-y, and dance-y…i didn’t expect all these ballads on it. jerkins kept talking about how it was like old school mj, gonna make ppl dance etc…i don’t think it achieved that goal, cuz most of the time the songs are slow…but what do i know, i hate pop music.