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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
But not everyone who is a good entertainer is a good musician. Half of what pop stars do is not music, but a means to sell music.
Clearly Micheal Jackson was a good musician. Again, I am only disagreeing with those that think he is the single most influention musician ever. He certainly influenced the way music is sold and marketed more than anyone else though. IMO, his record sales point to that fact more then they point to the quality of the product.
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Being a "good musician" is not a quantifiable term and while "experts" attempt to quantify it by measuring such things as ability to write music, skill of an instrument, skill of voice etc. it is still an arbitrary term.
I understand you have a bias against pop music, but to suggest that the single highest selling of records by musical artist (not band) in history is not one of the most influential musicians ever, is ridiculous. Those 28 million records were not videos of his dancing, they were strictly his music, which clearly a lot of people enjoyed.
Having grown up in Europe during the 80's and early 90's I would go as far as to argue that his music inspired the next decade worth of European Music.
Name the single most INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED/INFLUENTIAL musician outside of Michael Jackson.