Example Of Argumentative Essay On Thriller Vs. Dangerous From A Popular Culture View

Introduction

Michael Jackson is one of the world’s most famous singers and artist. Starting off as an ordinary American recording artist, he had a couple of breaks. He was later on discovered as the world’s King of Pop because of the genre of songs he usually composed in his music albums. His fans often refer Michael Jackson as MJ. Jackson did not become famous just because he has a relatively good or unique singing voice. His unique and usually hard-to-copy dance moves were actually equally contributory to his success as an entertainer, a recording artist, and even abusinessperson. This man certainly rocked the world. Born in the U.S. particularly in Indiana in 29 August 1958 and died in the same state—particularly in Los Angeles California, Michael Jackson definitely left a huge legacy both to his fans and to all the people he had helped. The objective of this paper is to be able to present a good comparison between the two of his most popular and successful albums: “Dangerous” and “Thriller.” Overall, Michael produced 10 music albums. However, for the purpose of discussion, we will only focus on the two mentioned albums.

Dangerous

Released in the year 1991, Dangerous is Michael Jackson’s eighth music album. The album contains a total of 9 singles—Black or White, Remember the Time, In the Closet, Jam, Who is It, Heal the World, Give in to me, Will You Be There, and Gone too Soon. Critics during that time reasonably gave Michael Jackson, the contents of that album, and his overall performance a good rating, probably more or less than a grade of 7/10 based on the different reviews we have retrieved and read.

Dangerous Album Cover

Michael Performing during the Dangerous Era

Thriller Album Cover

Thriller Single Cover

References

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