1. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'。
2. Baby Be Mine
3. The Girl Is Mine
4. Thriller
5. Beat It
6. Billie Jean
7. Human Nature
8. P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
9. Lady in My Life
Thriller was produced by Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones and released in November 1982 with nine songs. Among them, "Billie Jean" and "Beat It" won two first and second places, and an album reached 7 songs to enter the top 10 of the charts, unprecedented. The album topped the U.S. Music Chart for 37 weeks and stayed on the album charts for 122 weeks, making it the first album in history to win the annual number two consecutive years (1983 and 1984).
As Michael Jackson's best album, "Thriller" swept through the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, Sweden, the Netherlands and other countries during the year, and the top of the album sales chart in these countries was occupied by MJ's albums. The album became the first record in the United States to sell more than 30 million. It exceeds the previous records created by Elvis Presley, the Beatles, etc.
In February 1984, Michael Jackson received a record 12 Grammy nominations and eight awards, becoming the most awarded singer in Grammy history. It has won more than 140 large and small trophies around the world, making it a rare win-win for business and art in the history of music.
Critics were ecstatic to praise Michael's exciting and irrepressible performance, declaring it the greatest singer of the day's pop, 4,000 thrillers worldwide that year.
As of 2016, the album has sold 104 million copies worldwide, becoming the only single album in the world to sell more than 100 million copies, and is included in the Guinness Book of World Records as "the best-selling album in world history". These figures are enough to illustrate MJ's musical dominance in the late 20th and early 20th centuries that no one in the world can match.
In addition to the huge success of the record itself, Thriller has a deeper historical significance. According to statistics, 80% of Americans in the 80s heard this album. In the two years since its release, the album was the most important event in the United States, and its influence swept not only the music world, but also dance, fashion and television. For many people in their 20s or 30s today, Thriller was the driving force behind their entry into American pop culture. His music, which encompasses pop, funk, rock, R&B and rap, easily saves the music industry from shattering. It not only broke through racial boundaries, but also paved the way for future generations of black artists, and pointed out the way forward for them. As Time magazine put it, it was it that brought black music back into the mainstream.
Now many popular black singers have made no secret of the great inspiration and help that MJ and "Thriller" have brought to them in major interviews. "There's no doubt he brought us back where we should belong," Quincy commented, "before black music always hovered in second-rate position in society, but its soul was the motor of the whole pop culture." MJ connects all the hearts of the world. ”
In 2008, Thriller was certified by history as a National Treasure, and the Library of Congress placed the album in its permanent collection...
Here are the full album songs to share:
1.Wanna Be Startin' Somethin：'
(Style: Funk, disco)
Instrumental arrangement: Jerry Hey and Michael Jackson
Keyboard, synthesizer: Greg Phillinganes
Synths: Michael Boddicker and Bill Wolfer
Guitar: David Williams
Bass: Louis Johnson
Percussion: Paulinho Da Costa
Thick tube shorts, horns: Jerry Hey and Gary Grant
Sachs, Flute: Larry Williams
Trombone: Bill Reichenbach
Bathroom stomping sound: Michael Jackson, Nelson Hayes and Steven Ray
The instruments behind the song are enough to hear many times, MJ's energetic singing, and the latter part is integrated into the African playful elements.
2.Baby Be Mine。 （风格：R&B、POP）
The music of this song is very pure, and the love between men and women expressed is also pure, and it is good to taste the mood:
The lyrics are as follows:
Don't need no dreams when I'm by your side I no longer need any dreams when I'm by your side
Every moment takes me to paradise
Every moment was like spending time in heaven
Darlin',let me hold you
Baby, let me hold you tight
Warm you in my arms and melt your fears away warms you in my arm and melts away your uneasiness
Show you all the magic that a perfect love can make you see the magic that perfect love can do
I need you night and day
I need you, night or day
Chorus
(1) So baby,be mine (baby you gotta be mine)
So baby be my girl (baby you have to be my girl)
And girl I'll give you all I got to give
Girl I will give you all I should pay.......
This song sung by MJ and Beatles member Paul McCartney, expresses the story of two men who like a girl at the same time, the song belongs to the brisk and slow shaking style, like this type of style, not to be missed.
The song finished runners-up in the United States and 8th on the British charts. It sold more than a million copies in the U.S. and earned platinum licenses, while it spent 18 weeks in the top 100 album charts. It performed better on the R&B charts, winning the title and winning 3 weeks in a row.
The videotape of the single "Thriller" lasted for 14 minutes, becoming a music video that was competed by major television stations at that time, and the production of the short film "Michael Jackson "Thriller" became the most popular family video at that time, in which the theme and dance, the melody continued to this day impressively, it has become one of MJ's classic character Peugeot, and then the Western Halloween song is a must-have theme dance song, from the beginning of the ghostly sound effects, the end of the super horror laughter... All become super symbols of this song.
MJ has a call at the beginning of Theriller, which was supposed to be done by a dog, but it refused to cooperate, so the final call was MJ's own.
Director John Landis was interviewed by New York Subway magazine about the year he made the greatest music video of all time:
How did the whole project start?
Oh, it was Michael Jackson who called me out of the blue. He watched Rick Baker's masterpiece, which turns a man into a wolf in American Werewolf in London. MJ is fascinated by this transfiguration and says he also wants to make a movie in which he can turn into a monster. Rock music videos at the time were generally meant to help sell records, so I wasn't interested at all. But of course I'm interested in making a short film, because MJ is so prominent, so I know someone will be interested in playing it. It's also an opportunity to get great dancers to make a cabaret film and shoot it correctly.
Every time I see or hear the pictures and sound effects of this MV short film, it feels particularly different, it does achieve a very surprising and unforgettable result of the story and music and dance in a music short film, and the personality and tension of MJ are also reflected in this short film, and it plays so perfectly under its talent and high standards........
It's a non-disco-style hard rock style hit
MJ raised the tone to a height that is difficult for other singers to reach, his voice came out with a call-calling feeling, and another highlight of the song was the cross-knife performance of solo by Eddie Van Helen, the soul of the Helen Band, and his skillful guitar skills were undoubtedly revealed in the song, and there was a hilarious and one-of-a-kind guitar solo!
The listening and visual impact in the MV is cool B, the dance is first-class and good-looking, and the temperament is full.
About beat It, Jackson said this in his autobiography:
Before I wrote Beat It, I thought I was going to create a rock song that I would like to buy on the street, but it had to be different from the average rock song, so when I wrote Beat It, I always had the school children in mind, I always loved to write songs for the children, to write songs for them, to understand their preferences, it was very interesting, they were very demanding listeners, you can't fool them. To this day, for me, they're still the most important listeners, because I really mind their reactions, and if they like a song, it must be great, and there's no need to look at the results. No wonder now we can hear this song in the supermarket, in the game hall, in the square, on the street, and my children like it very much........ MJ Vision!
The song was shortlisted for one of the 500 classics in the history of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and one of rollstone magazine's best 100 rock guitar solos! At the same time, Jackson also won the 26th Annual Grammy Best Rock Male Singer for the song "Beat It". The design and shooting of the mv of this song is more cross-century, which can be described as a masterpiece!
MJ觉得的这首歌的内容，能给当时美国的青年一代一些善意的忠告，适好当时里根总统建议将他的这首歌曲用在一个告诫青年人不要酒后驾车的公益广告中，MJ同意了里根总统的这个要求。 MJ was therefore invited by President Reagan to the White House to personally present him with the World Outstanding Youth Award and the Special Contribution Award.
Or everyone knows that this song interprets a good classic, but it is necessary to understand the production story behind this classic to better understand the reason for the enduring of a good work.
According to Jackson's recollection in his 1988 autobiography: It was the summer of 1982. Jackson is on Highway 101 in Los Angeles. After working with producer Quincy Jones for days in the studio for the sequel to Off The Wall, he drove home. He was "deeply intoxicated by a melody that haunted his mind," so he didn't realize that the chassis of his luxury car was starting to smoke. "We were driving down the highway when a young man on a motorcycle came up to us and said, 'You're on fire.'" We suddenly noticed the smoke and quickly stopped the car. The entire bottom of the Rolls-Royce burned. That kid really saved our lives. "But even a passing brush with death doesn't shake Jackson's obsession with the work he's working on." Even as we sought help and found new ways to get to our destination, I was quietly composing more material. ”
The song is perhaps the most self-written work Jackson has ever written, and the inspiration for the horror-inflamed parent-child claim drama stemmed from what happened to the singer and the female fans who suffered from paranoia. Jackson worked on the song for several months and was convinced he had something extraordinary on his hands. "Musicians know what will be best-selling material. Everything has to feel in place. To make you feel fulfilled and feel good. Jackson recalled, "That's how I felt about 'Billie Jean.'" I knew when I wrote it that it was going to be a hit. ”
Bruce Sveton, Quincy Jones, a studio engineer for years, recalled: "When we recorded 'Billie Jean',...... Quincy told me, 'Well, this piece of music has to have the most unique sound qualities, if we've never recorded it.' ’琼斯让杰克逊通过六英尺长的纸板管，把演唱录音配到原带上；他还带来了爵士萨克斯音乐家汤姆·斯科特来演奏一种罕见的乐器Lyricon，一种风鸣合成器，它酸味而似号角的音效，巧妙地编织着整支作品。 Bassist Louis Johnson experimented with a variety of guitars he owned, until Jackson decided to use the Yamaha guitar as a soundtrack to produce the ideal thick, buzzing music. At the same time, Sveton also finds the perfect beat through craft projects. He hired carpenters to build a special drum platform and ordered a specially crafted bass drum to design isolated drum beats to capture the correct imagery on the strings and drum racks. "See if you can think of any other musical composition that makes you know what song it is as soon as the first three drums are played?" Sveton said, "That's what I call a sound trait. The main component of this trait was almost spared in the final cut.
"Billie Jean" rarely begins with long basses and drum beats, MJ only starts singing in the 29th second, so Jones tries to trim it out, but Jackson fiercely demands to keep it, and then we see a wonderful start...
On May 16, 1983, more than 50 million people watched Jackson's performance at the Motown 25th Anniversary Gala that was most surprising, standing in the center of the stage, no accompaniment, no stage effects, nothing else, and people watching Michael Jackson not knowing what he was going to do. They just knew he was a lead star in the Jackson five. He sang a song in the center of the stage, MJ wearing white gloves and white socks, the action of waving wine suddenly slid backwards like water, the scene was a surprise after the boiling, this is the famous space step moon Moonwalk, more than 50 million people watched, this dance step quickly swept the world, this performance conquered the world, but also fascinated thousands of fans.
The MV of "Billie Jean" showed the audience for the first time the Chaplinian outsider Jackson. In particular, the use of iconic and wonderfully smooth dance steps. Arguably Jackson's most famous abstract music video.
Another important implication: "Billie Jean" broke the racial boundaries of MTV and destroyed the generations of racial segregation in commercial radio. At the dawn of the modern era of music video, this single ushered in the trendy post-spiritual pop music that is still influential to this day.
The main content of the song: It is also the only hit song about the birth father's confirmation of the proceedings. If the child is not his own, then why should he suffer for it? But somehow, Michael tries to create a nightmare world to convey his fears of adulthood, sex, and women. If Billie Jean wasn't his woman, why didn't he just walk away? What happened in 40 days and nights? Why did he go to her bed? If the person in the bed wasn't Billie Jean, who would she be? In the chaotic thoughts that feel that Billie Jean is omnipresent, Michael himself flickers but still has no way to escape.
"Billie Jean" was inspired by the teenage girls who surrounded MJ and his brothers. Michael said: "Billy Jane is actually anonymous, it can represent many girls. They would wait backstage, waiting to have sex with the band musicians who came to the city to perform. I think I wrote this song because of what happened to me and my brother when I was a kid. There are a lot of Billy Jane in the world, and all the girls say their children are related to one of my older brothers. "Another layer of meaning is to tell people that chaotic relationships don't lead to good results, so it's best not to flirt with others casually...
Anyway, enjoy this classic: "Billie Jean", you know? 这首歌一共被录音工程师布鲁斯·斯维登（Bruce Swedien）混音过91次，91次，91次
7. Human Nature Style: R&B, Soul
The song is not as rhythmic as its MJ hit, but it is something he loves
It is sung 100% live in all concerts with special robot dance steps.
MJ said that the song was brought to Quincy by the toto band, and both he and Quincy thought that they had not heard such a beautiful tune for a long time, and its music was like wings.......
People always ask him what the song means to be included in it, presumably there must be a personal reason for MJ, MJ said that this is often not true, close to the audience, impress the listener, it must be important, some songs can do this, some songs are songs.
MJ: I love the song "Pretty Young Thing," which Quincy and James Ingram co-wrote. In the song "Until Satisfied", I had a desire to speak, so at the beginning there was a monologue of mine, I didn't think it was necessary to hide the voice of my voice, I had this very soft voice from before to now, I never meant to change or deliberately ponder it, it was my voice, believe it or not. If someone criticizes and accuses you of something, and this is god-given to you, you already have it, imagine how hurtful it is to have those untrue things circulating through news reports. People always wonder if you're telling the truth, you always have to do your best to defend yourself, and people start making up sensational stories, and if you're forced to contradict them, another story comes out. In the past, I always tried to avoid these things, not to answer those ridiculous accusations, because it actually made an impact on them, did propaganda, don't forget, the news industry is to make money, newspapers, magazines are made to be able to sell money, accuracy, justice can be ignored, even disregard the truth.
Anyway, in the monologue of Pretty Little Baby, it sounds like I'm more confident than I was on the last record, and I also like some of the hidden phrases in the lyrics, like tenderoni or sugar fly, which you won't find in a dictionary. I also called both Jenny and LaToya, and they sang so well in the background chorus that James Ingram and I changed our voices with a speech synthesizer and came out like aliens talking.
9.The Lady In My Life：（风格：Soul、funk）
This song was one of the hardest to make, and we recorded it several times to get to the best of my ability, but Quincy was always unhappy with me, even though we had recorded it hundreds of times. Finally, he called me aside and told me that what he was asking of me was "begging," and that's what he said, and he asked me to go back to the studio and beg for it without exaggeration. So I went back and told us to turn off all the lights and close all the curtains, including the curtains opposite the control room, so that I didn't feel too disturbed. Quincy started recording, and I sang, as if begging, and that's what you heard.
— MJ's autobiography MOON WALK
Thriller这些美好的故事与音乐，仍有好多未有被一一例举，希望喜爱的朋友与粉丝们可以一起䃼充、发上来，让这张全球冠军专辑又一次以今天这种方式