"Thriller" by Michael Jackson

Darkness falls across the land, and it's the right time for
Michael Jackson's "Thriller." Kirk picks apart Rod Temperton's
dance floor classic in all its groovy, corny, sound effect-y
glory.


Band/Artist: Michael Jackson


Album:Thriller, 1982


Composed by: Rod Temperton


Produced by: Quincy Jones


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A NOTE FROM KIRK:


It’s been a couple months since I produced this episode, and just
a few days since I watched the first part of “Leaving Neverland,”
a devastating new HBO documentary in which two men, Wade Robson
and James Safechuck, detail their alleged childhood sexual abuse
at the hands of Michael Jackson. It’s an intense and difficult
documentary to watch, but I recommend that everyone listening to
this episode do so. Jackson’s estate denies it all, but watching
people on camera relaying such painful memories, in such
excruciating detail, is both wrenching and convincing.


It’s impossible to separate an amazing song like “Thriller” from
the man who sang it. I still think Thriller is a great song and
admire the many people involved in making it, but hearing Robson
and Safechuck’s accounts, on top of the similar stories I and the
culture at large brushed aside or shrugged our shoulders at when
they first surfaced many years ago, has certainly changed the way
I hear Jackson’s voice. I’m leaving this episode as is, but I
wanted to add this note, as well as to link to this New York
Times editorial on Jackson’s legacy by Wesley Morris, which says
so much, so well.


~KH 3/6/2019


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