Blog: WORD

The thing I keep coming back to about Michael Jackson's death is his dancing. The primary motivation of Jackson's music can be found in this wonderful nugget from Quincy Jones about "Billie Jean": "I said, 'Michael we've got to cut that intro'", Jones later recalled. "He said, 'But that's the jelly!'...'That's what makes me want to dance'. And when Michael Jackson tells you, 'That's what makes me want to dance', well, the rest of us just have to shut up." And if there was ever a song made for dancing, it's "Billie Jean." There is no performer in the world [...]