Talk:Thriller (album)
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[edit] Song writer
Does Michael Jackson really write his songs on his own, as he states f.e. in the Bashir interview, or does he let other do that job? Thanks, --Abdull 15:51, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Maybe... if his name was Rod Temperton or Quincy Jones... - AJ
Michael Jackson writes alot of his own music. On the Thriller album, "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'", "The Girl Is Mine", "Beat It" and "Billie Jean" were written by Michael Jackson. Most of the other 5 songs on the album are written by Rod Temperton (who also wrote a good part of Jackson's Off The Wall album). Street walker 10:08, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
anyone got any rare demos they wanna trade, add me, mjdemosunreleased@hotmail.com
and yes michael wrote most of his music himself from Bad onwards
[edit] Unclear Trivia
"Thriller is considered by many as the first album of the MTV generation" Its not clear to me what this is saying. Since Thriller was released over a year after MTV debuted, it certainly isn't the first album released in the MTV Era. Maybe it is implying it was the first major, or blockbuster release? if so, this needs to be clarified, and preferably referenced or given more context. Redneb 13:44, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Sampling"
There's a section on songs that "sample" Thriller, and it says this:
- "Beat It" was sampled by musician "Weird Al" Yankovic for his 1984 parody-hit "Eat It"
I think this is misleading. "Sampling" means that they took a clip from the song and stuck it into their own recording, which they didn't do (it was an entirely new recording). This makes me wonder how many of the other songs listed actually "sample" the original song or just use the same riff. I think the section may need to be reworded. - furrykef (Talk at me) 13:36, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
re-recording the riff, or using the record to get the riff are both considerd samples. 74.65.39.59 12:07, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Why was this section removed? I put a lot of work into it!
[edit] Why not add lyrics?
Why don't we add lyrics to song article's..... especially if we are willing to add all these chart trajectories to album articles? 68.33.137.201 03:09, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
- I believe the song lyrics are owned by their respective publishers, so in essence we'd need to have copyright permission - Ashadeofgrey 08:48, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
I don't know about that. the reason I question it is because I see lyrics all the time on different web pages and they don't seem to have any special "permission" from the author, so why can't we? Scifiintel 23:32, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
- Yeah I wonder about that too, so many lyrics sites are out there and it makes you wonder why they don't get shut down. Rogerthat Talk 05:01, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Stolen Content
this page has text stolen from http://www.snopes.com/music/hidden/thriller.htm
- Indeed. Thanks for pointing it out. I've removed all but the first sentence, if anyone thinks it needs more than that, make sure you don't copyviolate. yandman 13:20, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
