lol
i legit enjoy this record, and feel a strong need to listen/watch from time to time
the more i do so, the more i appreciate michael jackson's solo chorus
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Monday, 8 June 2015 22:33 (eight years ago) link
Bruce really does bomb this, doesn't he? Kenny Loggins sounds great by comparison.
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 13 April 2018 13:48 (six years ago) link
Michael Jackson 0
Wait, what?
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Friday, 13 April 2018 14:21 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_tZUg8onNg
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 December 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
How in the ever loving fuck did Ray Charles not walk this?????
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 15 December 2019 19:12 (four years ago) link
He etc
― Mark G, Sunday, 15 December 2019 22:34 (four years ago) link
idk if this is a poll u wanna "win" necessarily
― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Sunday, 15 December 2019 22:43 (four years ago) link
"we are the world" is something that sounds like a generic anthem until you realize how profoundly fucking weird it is
i think i must have heard it a hundred times before the bizarreness of the line "as god has shown us, by turning stones to bread" finally sunk in
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 15 December 2019 23:48 (four years ago) link
also
"when you're down and out, and there seems no hope at all/BUT IF YOU JUST BELIEVE, THERE'S NO WAY YOU CAN FALL"
which, in the context of what the song is meant to be about and who it's meant to be addressing, is just incredibly funny and insane
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 15 December 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link
clap your hands if you believe you're not starving!
― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Sunday, 15 December 2019 23:56 (four years ago) link
I like Greil Marcus' response "When you're done and out" ("The Ethiopians are 'down and out'?").
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 December 2019 04:52 (four years ago) link
what does it mean to body a verse?
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Monday, 16 December 2019 10:16 (four years ago) link
“If you just believe, there’s no way we can fall.” Yep, that’s all it takes to end famine in Ethiopia, just believing.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 16 December 2019 13:40 (four years ago) link
In one of the "making of" videos IIRC, there's a moment with A. Jarreau recording his part and he's so not ale to follow the rhythm you have to wonder how that's possible for a "professional" singer (especially after such a long career) !
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 16 December 2019 14:31 (four years ago) link
He was a jazz guy, it was him being avant garde
― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Monday, 16 December 2019 15:02 (four years ago) link
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, December 16, 2019 4:52 AM (two days ago)
marcus also pointed out how weird it is that a song written by two guys who'd done pepsi commercials centers on the line "there's a choice we're making," which sounds like an unconscious echo of pepsi's then-current slogan "the choice of a new generation"
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 00:20 (four years ago) link
xpostkilled their verse in outdated rap slang
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 00:32 (four years ago) link
It's time: Who Bodied Their Verse On "Tears Are Not Enough"??
― crusty but malignant (Eric H.), Thursday, 5 March 2020 15:37 (four years ago) link