Go youtube the clip of him on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Michael wasn't an innovator. He was talented but he didn't create it.
You know what, you’ve got an opinion that seems pretty close to my own.
It think Jackson was a talent, don’t get me wrong, but was he the brilliant mastermind of all things he got credited with producing? I don’t think so.
You simply cannot produce some of the things Jackson did without a creative team to provide expertise and suggestions how to come up with some of his vision. And when that happens, there’s really a melding of vision rather than a single vision. It’s a shared vision.
This idolization is therefore somewhat uncalled for. If people feel compelled to idolize an entity, it should be the creative teams that contributed to develop the public persona that was Michael Jackson. They’re just kidding themselves if they think his efforts were solely the culmination of only his creativity.
He came up with premises, and teams blossomed them out, and helped bring it to the public. The initial kernels of those ideas could just as easily have been projects presented to him by creative types also.
As I said, he had talent. I’m just not convinced that he was some legendary creative genius.