I remember back around the 1983 timeframe, there were a lot of complaints about the lack of black music on MTV. Then "Thriller" happened, and it was all downhill from there.
I thought those early albums of Michael Jackson were excellent. He was given much credit for the creativity on them, but I always suspect Sony’s staff probably juiced the whole thing behind the scenes, keeping it quiet to build him into a super marketable guy.
Frankly, I was saddened to see what became of him. In those early days I was happy to see a young kid find the success he did. And then...
I didn’t consider much if any of the other black music in the following years to be gifted. MTV essentially destroying it’s own original idea moving off into idiotic nonsense type offerings, mostly very vile for kids to be influenced by.