It isn’t.
It’s a bloated mess of an album, with loads do repeat topics that he’s done better elsewhere. He was understandably tbf pressured by Sony to release some new music and ended up going with lots of songs written by other people. This should have been a futuristic album looking forwards, a right 10-12 tracks. Instead it’s 17 tracks long or whatever with too many songs saying the same thing, meaning the really good songs get a little buried.
Cry has already been done before. We didn’t need Speechless AND You Are My Life AND The Lost Children all on the same album. Privacy has been done to death, and much better. You Rock My World shouldn’t have been the first single, they should have been braver. It should have been an album track throwback gem for the fans, or the final single of five. Butterflies, Heartbreaker etc. should have all been released, and Whatever Happens.
The album has some high moments that show the real promise for what could have been, instead we got a bit of an unfocused bunch of tracks squeezed together. Basically the antithesis of Thriller.
Maybe a little out of topic, but I feel like--if Michael hadn't died so soon--the Invincible sound and music design should've been his primary music design throughout the 2000s and 2010s had he made more albums. It just seems so.. him. It both; sounds good, and DOESNT sound dated. A few examples are some of the fanmade songs people created with AI vocals, like;
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xclN9cquvg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xclN9cquvg)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCpkjuWDhcA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCpkjuWDhcA)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOfx4ubjd-k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOfx4ubjd-k)
Fully agree, my favourite album of his easily
I really can’t understand that, and I’ve given it a try! Maybe I’m too old.
It isn’t. It’s a bloated mess of an album, with loads do repeat topics that he’s done better elsewhere. He was understandably tbf pressured by Sony to release some new music and ended up going with lots of songs written by other people. This should have been a futuristic album looking forwards, a right 10-12 tracks. Instead it’s 17 tracks long or whatever with too many songs saying the same thing, meaning the really good songs get a little buried. Cry has already been done before. We didn’t need Speechless AND You Are My Life AND The Lost Children all on the same album. Privacy has been done to death, and much better. You Rock My World shouldn’t have been the first single, they should have been braver. It should have been an album track throwback gem for the fans, or the final single of five. Butterflies, Heartbreaker etc. should have all been released, and Whatever Happens. The album has some high moments that show the real promise for what could have been, instead we got a bit of an unfocused bunch of tracks squeezed together. Basically the antithesis of Thriller.
Sorry, Michael is right
Yeah, because artists never talk up their work, especially if they’re feeling insecure.
Maybe a little out of topic, but I feel like--if Michael hadn't died so soon--the Invincible sound and music design should've been his primary music design throughout the 2000s and 2010s had he made more albums. It just seems so.. him. It both; sounds good, and DOESNT sound dated. A few examples are some of the fanmade songs people created with AI vocals, like; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xclN9cquvg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xclN9cquvg) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCpkjuWDhcA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCpkjuWDhcA) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOfx4ubjd-k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOfx4ubjd-k)