>certain moments on this
>album remind me of the feeling of hearing a classic MJ record
>for the first time and it's exhilarating because I haven't
>felt that way in such a long time, having heard all MJ's
>records so many times over. Like, I still enjoy them... but
>trying to go back and relive that experience of hearing
>Thriller or even Bad for the first time... it's like trying to
>lose your virginity over again.
>
>Stump manages to really come close to making me feel that way
>all over again, though.





yeah. and it's well known that i'm an MJ stan...
so it's a lot for me to think anything is in the same league as MJ.

but this album makes me FEEL the way i felt
when i listened to "thriller" as a kid.




it's like he went into the studio
and tried to load as many hooks as he possibly could
into every single song.

there is just so much to sink your ears into.




and vocally... he knocked it out the park.
because he shows an michael jackson INFLUENCE
w/o trying to bite him completely.


it's like he tailored MJ's mannerisms and phrasing
for the "limitations" of his own vocal range.




and the way he stacked his vox for the vocal harmonies?
that's MJ all the way.

it's on that "jimmy jam and terry lewis writing vocal arrangemnents
for janet jackson" level.

it's on that pharell "stacking his vocals on tracks
that he wrote for MJ" level.




i mean... i have heard indiviual songs
that gave me the same feeling i got from old school
MJ records (usher, u don't have to call; ne-yo, one in a million,
timberlake; like i love u)... but this is the first ALBUM i've heard
where ever song gives me the same type of chills i had
as a kid.