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darlinmichael:

I really love Threatened. You have to know that I’m very attached to that song. When I was at the cinema and Threatened started to play, my heart stopped to beat. Oh my God. I have that song in my Ipod both TII’s version and Invincible’s version. Thank you Michael :)

indiachantel:

I love hands, that rubby thing Michael does

heavensgladyoucame:

For many fans and critics, the soulful “Butterflies” is one of the hidden gems of Michael Jackson’s late career. Like “Heaven can wait,” it reminds people of what made Jackson’s voice such a revelation in the first place, yet benefits from added maturity and sophistication. Though Sony never officially released “Butterflies” as a single, it quickly became an underground hit, particularly in urban areas like New York City. Given the enthusiastic response, many people simply couldn’t understand why it wasn’t promoted as the new sound of Michael Jackson. “It would have opened people’s minds,” music critic Steven Ivory told NPR. “Butterflies” still managed to reach #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on the Hot R&B/ Hip-Hop Singles chart on the strength of air play alone. The song was introduced to Jackson by longtime friend and record executive, John McClain. Jackson liked what he heard in the track by Floetry, a young neo-jazz/soul duo from England. Marsha Ambrosius recalls receiving a message from the King of Pop in 2000: “This really light voice comes out of the answering machine: ‘I’m really interested in that stuff coming out of A Touch of Jazz. That Floetry stuff is really cool’. It was Michael Jackson” After receiving several potential demos, Jackson choose “Butterflies”. A few months later Ambrosius and Natalie Stewart were in the studio working with him on the song. “It was incredible,” recalled Ambrosius of the experience, “because he continually asked, ‘Marsh, what’s the next harmony? Girls, does this sound right? What do you think? Is this what you were looking for?’ He was so open.”

“It is not too overstated to suggest that ‘Butterflies’ is one of Jackson’s most significant R&B recordings in some time,” argued music critic Mark Anthony Neal. “Jackson opens the song with a growl-like murmur of a tenor, but the song takes off in the second verse when he pushes his range to breathy lilting falsetto that powerfully captures the vulnerability that the song’s lyrics attempt to convey.” “Butterflies” has become one of Jackson’s most highly regarded late works, and continues to be “discovered” by music lovers who missed it the first go-round.

00sjams:

Butterflies | Michael Jackson

fuckyeah-michaeljackson:

October 29 2001 - The masterpiece that is Invincible is released.

I was 10 years old and this was my ‘Michael Jackson Album Anticipation Experience’. Reliving the day I bought this album: it was still casette tapes era, I think it was a sunday when I bought it and after I bough the tape, I remember going out the music store eyeing the CD, coz’ couldn’t afford it back then, I was like ‘I WILL HAVE YOU, CD, someday…someday’ and now I have it :333

DAMN STRAIGHT INVINCIBLE IS GREAT !

In 2001, Jackson said that he was “wronged” by Sony Music when the firm failed to promote his album “Invincible”, which is considered to be one of his greatest works.

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