Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Two genuises creating a work of total mediocrity

With last week's passing of Michael Jackson I am thinking of a collaboration with one of the Beatles that was the most stunningly mediocre portion of a masterpiece. 
It was like Godfather III.

I am talking about of course, "The Girl is Mine"

It is as if Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci combined their talents and designed a storage unit. 

Here is the Wikipedia entry on The Girl is Mine
The writing of both the music and lyrics is lazy and uninteresting. What is amazing is that the song reached number 2 on the billboard charts and sold over a million copies. 

Both Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney are geniuses. 

People stop me on the street and ask me about my favorite Beatles song to which I have a standard answer. There is quite a bit of Michael Jackson's music with both the Jackson 5 and as a solo artist that is good but I have never thought, you know I have not heard, "The Girl is Mine" in a while. 

The album Thriller is a stunning masterpiece/landmark but its first single is a monument to the ordinary and mundane. 

posted by Marcus Ronaldi at 6:52 PM

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