![]() Here, the latter overwhelms, bending all the disco and dance to its sensibility, and if it is frankly unnecessary as an album - why listen to this when there are plenty of hits available? - it’s an effective soundtrack for a lavish, expensive dance production. Perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that roughly half of the album is devoted to music made after Bad: after he parted ways with Quincy Jones, Jackson flitted between attempts to reconcile with hip-hop and old-fashioned showbiz. ![]() Producer Kevin Antunes never recontextualizes the original recordings he favors hits-on-parade medleys, letting the hooks - the melodies, the rhythms - sink in before moving on to the next snippet. One of Jackson’s best-reviewed albums, Dangerous was praised for living up to its name, with edgier beats and lyrical content penned by Jackson and his new producing partner, Teddy Riley. Of course, LOVE is by far a more ambitious work, creating new songs out of old samples, whereas Immortal is unabashed Vegas glitz, songs truncated or elongated to the demands of the stage, audio drops of music videos or interviews triple underscoring already apparent sentiment. This album was notable as it was the first one to not be produced by longtime collaborator, Quincy Jones. ![]() ![]() Unlike the Beatles, Michael Jackson’s body of work lends itself to the kind of glitzy mash-up soundtrack Cirque du Soleil requires - which is a roundabout way of saying the soundtrack to their 2011 production Immortal feels a little sounder than the Beatles' LOVE.
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