Bad's not even close to being an underrated album.

Smooth Criminal and Bad are iconic. Dirty Diana? Another Part of Me was a ride/attraction at Disneyland. i wonder how many people went to see that?

his most underrated album is easily "Invincible."

everyone counted him out or didn't really pay attention due to the issues with Sony.

"You Rocked My World" and "Butterflies" are really big records.

regardless he did it again, considering that it wasn't really cool to work with MJ anymore at that point in time.

The Neptunes were in their prime and the tracks that were written for MJ got blocked, or given to other artists.

i remember reading that he wanted to work with Dre, but for some reason it didn't happen.

so you listen to tracks like "Unbreakable" "Invincible" and "Threatened" and imagine the same beat with Dre's influence. you start to really get a glimpse of MJ's true genius.

i know he wanted to work with Timbaland and that didn't go through, and so you hear a track like "heartbreaker" or "heaven can wait" and wonder what it would have sounded like if Timbaland actually did the beat.

granted some of the slow songs were a little too sugary, tracks like "Break of Dawn," and "Whatever Happens" still take it there. and "Privacy" Slash shuts it down.

i just named 9 tracks on an album. and that's about how many he normally had on albums back then. all of those songs are super dope. if he dropped some of the other records, and got those neptunes tracks that became smashes for those other artists...then it would easily rival Thriller, or stand alone as the work it was, Invincible.

"You Don't Have to Call," "There She Goes" and a few of them JT cuts...

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a side note. what in the hell was going on, on the song "10,000 Watts" i think MJ, MF doom'd that. if you ever need a good laugh, bump that song.