#pop-funk

[whileiamdying]

Thriller Michael Jackson

A landmark that did nothing less than redefine the scope and reach of pop music.

There are few pop albums, or even works of art, that denote a wholesale shift in time and space the way Michael Jackson’s Thriller did in 1982. Noting its impact on the career trajectory of a child star turned R&B hitmaker feels reductive; talking about its record-smashing commercial success diminishes its creative leaps. It did nothing less than define the modern pop blockbuster and redefine the scope and reach of music.

Stripping the weight of history from Thriller is a big job, but hearing the record as a statement in itself remains hugely rewarding. Seven of its nine original cuts were Top 10 singles, and it became one of the best-selling albums ever made, but more important is the way Jackson and producer Quincy Jones turned the singer’s obsessions into intricate, stunningly sung pop-funk.

“No one else could perform infectious songs of that quality at that high a level.” — Nile Rodgers

The album’s opening throwdown, “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’,” is Jackson at his fiercest and funkiest, picking up right where 1979’s Off the Wall left off—and shoring up his R&B bona fides. But from the Paul McCartney-blessed pop of the first hit single “The Girl Is Mine” to the Eddie Van Halen-revved pyrotechnics of “Beat It,” Jackson’s crossover moves opened up the eyes and ears of the industry—and audiences around the world—to what music could sound, look, and feel like if we blurred those old color lines. “Billie Jean” is a gripping psycho-study of the paranoia and persecution that he was already feeling—yet it still maintains the mysterious allure of an artist who became the avatar for the omnipresent global pop superstar.

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満月の夜

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Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa

11/11 Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Nostalgia

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J a n e l l e

M o n a e

[myaverageartblog]

Pop Music Club Trio! First animation in a while, I'm a bit rusty but I'm still pretty happy with it~

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C h a k a K h a n

[thisisrealy2kok]

Blue Note - Cosmos (Outer Space Disco Funk Ignites B.N. & T.K. Dancefloors) (2008)

[cherrirui-official]

Awe yeah Hitman JD art (+ semi-unrelated doodle bc I wanted to put something over the cut)

!! Blood warning for the art under the cut !!

@lemony-and-zesty HI I stumbled upon your Hitman John Dory au while looking at trolls fanart and I'm SO NORMAL abt him!!!! I just had to draw him I hope that's okay

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ワールド・トレード・センター ＩＸ

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ANTHONY KIEDIS, FLEA, MIKI BERENYI, AND CHRIS CORNELL. LOLLAPALOOZA, 1992.

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S a l o n g e

[lady--katie]

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it’s been almost 2 years and 8 pieces later since i started studying hiroshi nagai’s and the city pop/pop art style and i have learned so much!!! this art style makes me so happy and it truly is so much fun to study. 🏝️✨✈️☀️

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David Bowie – Modern Love