“ Bad” was the statement of intent, the mean-mugging dance anthem. “ I Just Can’t Stop Loving You” was the soft, approachable reintroduction. The album’s two previous singles had served their functions. Every song works as image maintenance and as music, a difficult thing to pull off. Every song on Bad checks some kind of box. Jackson was following up Thriller, the most successful album in existence, so he made a record where all the songs could work as singles. Jackson’s Bad might be the original too-big-to-fail pop album. But Katherine Jackson apparently didn’t quite understand that her son was Michael Jackson and that anything he’d write in the late ’80s would come out sounding like a space-age oddity. That’s why Jackson wrote “The Way You Make Me Feel.” The song is a shuffle, and it has plenty of things that call back to earlier eras of R&B. The story behind “The Way You Make Me Feel” is that Katherine Jackson, Michael’s mother, wanted him to write a shuffle - an old-school R&B number, like the stuff that Motown was putting out nearly a decade before Berry Gordy signed the Jackson 5. That loping sound was too weird and too precise for an actual bass guitar. There’s no bass guitar on “The Way You Make Me Feel.” I’m pretty sure that bassline comes from session musician Christopher Currell playing the synclavier, the digital synth that Stevie Wonder loved so much. It sounds like a technological marvel, and that’s because it is. The bassline on “The Way You Make Me Feel” sounds funky and awkward and menacing all at once. If Daleks could breakdance, they would breakdance to that bassline.Ī lot of Michael Jackson songs have amazing basslines, but none of those basslines hits quite like the bassline of “The Way You Make Me Feel.” Even on “ Billie Jean,” the bassline isn’t quite so overpowering. That bassline sounds like what might a Terminator might throw on the stereo after it gets off from work.
How do you describe that bassline? That bassline sounds like something you’d hear booming out of a lowrider UFO.
If ever damaged or stolen, your item may be replaced for the cost of printing if verifiable with your Certificate of Authenticity and a Police or Insurance report.In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Each piece comes with the Certificate of Authenticity and Warranty. Call us for framing options if desired. For this reason, I strayed from my usual rules of not using song titles to tag my paintings (I usually try to focus on a song lyric). I simply could not find a better title to sum up the feeling that comes over me when I hear is music." -Stickman I will say, I’ve never seen or heard another entertainer have the effect on people the way that MJ’s music does, it is near impossible to not be moved by his infectious sound. One could write an entire thesis about the genius of this man and the influence he has had on the music industry – so I’m not even going to try and surmise it. His commitment to a live band and often enlisting rock guitarists such as Slash, Van Halen, Dave Navarro and Orianthi always gave his music an edge that is seldom seen in pop music. "Top forty pop music has never really been my thing, however, I always found myself digging MJ. This fine art limited edition gicleé on canvas is gallery wrapped and ready to hang, available in 3 editions. Michael Jackson - The Way You Make Me Feel by Stickman
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