Michael was definitely a rare breed. I don't think we'll ever have another artist like him or the artists you named. They did so much for pop culture and music. They set the bar too high to reach.
Everything these new artists are doing he and many others before them have already done. Unless they find their own niche, I don't see anyone being as innovative or groundbreaking as Michael. I'm not saying this because he's dead. I'm saying it because it just doesn't seem likely.
I don't know if I would say "never." My older relatives were saying that people said the same thing when Elvis died...and then MJ came along. I think that time will tell. Will there ever be someone exactly like MJ - no. He was one of a kinda. But could someone rise to a status higher than MJ - honestly, no one knows. I agree with an earlier post - I don't think that I will see it in my lifetime. And if we are talking about record sales for one album, then I don't think that anyone will have an album that sell that many records anymore. But with technology moving away from records/albums, new systems/structures/devices might change the way that we sell/distribute records and albums over the next few decades, and someone might come along and be revolutionary.
So, in the short-term, I'm gonna say no. But we never know who will arise ...never say never.
Originally posted by UPitt: I don't know if I would say "never." My older relatives were saying that people said the same thing when Elvis died...and then MJ came along. I think that time will tell. Will there ever be someone exactly like MJ - no. He was one of a kinda. But could someone rise to a status higher than MJ - honestly, no one knows. I agree with an earlier post - I don't think that I will see it in my lifetime. And if we are talking about record sales for one album, then I don't think that anyone will have an album that sell that many records anymore. But with technology moving away from records/albums, new systems/structures/devices might change the way that we sell/distribute records and albums over the next few decades, and someone might come along and be revolutionary.
So, in the short-term, I'm gonna say no. But we never know who will arise ...never say never.
This is an interesting post to me, as I really do believe in the phrase "never say never"...as you honestly, really, truly don't know what the future holds.
At this point, it'd be easy to say "no" just basing it off the current crop of artists dominating the airwaves.
Like I said, if it does happen, it most likely won't be in this lifetime.
There will never be another Michael Jackson. Michael just set the bar way too high! I mean, we can't say it will never happen, but in this lifetime, I don't think so. If someone does come along, he'll be someone that is unique in his or her own way. There will never be another Michael, only duplicates of him.
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Originally posted by UPitt: I don't know if I would say "never." My older relatives were saying that people said the same thing when Elvis died...and then MJ came along. I think that time will tell. Will there ever be someone exactly like MJ - no. He was one of a kinda. But could someone rise to a status higher than MJ - honestly, no one knows. I agree with an earlier post - I don't think that I will see it in my lifetime. And if we are talking about record sales for one album, then I don't think that anyone will have an album that sell that many records anymore. But with technology moving away from records/albums, new systems/structures/devices might change the way that we sell/distribute records and albums over the next few decades, and someone might come along and be revolutionary.
So, in the short-term, I'm gonna say no. But we never know who will arise ...never say never.
Agreed and nicely put.
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It's possible. I'm not ruling out the possibility. There will be no one to out-do Michael, because he did his own thing, but that's not to say someone can't come around and do something different and maybe bigger. You don't know; there's still a lot of life to live and music to be made.
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Originally posted by musicluva123: Be, when you say "bigger," what exactly do you mean? Popularity has to translate into sales, records, etc.
When I say "bigger", I mean popularity pretty much.
Selling 109 million copies of ONE album, BIG. lol
But now ways of measuring Popularity is way defferent than it was then. With album sales, yes it will give you a good statistic but it doesn't give you downloads that are not being counted. Before Albums was the most accurate way of doing so since it was the only way to distribute music. Now we have the internet, the Illegal downloading, youtube, google, and so on.
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Originally posted by musicluva123: Be, when you say "bigger," what exactly do you mean? Popularity has to translate into sales, records, etc.
When I say "bigger", I mean popularity pretty much.
Selling 109 million copies of ONE album, BIG. lol
In most cases, his success is unparallel. The fact that he was viewed as an icon when he was just a kid up until he died speaks volumes. If we haven't seen a strong competitor by now, I doubt we'd see one anytime soon. We'll probably be gone by then. LOL
Originally posted by musicluva123: Be, when you say "bigger," what exactly do you mean? Popularity has to translate into sales, records, etc.
When I say "bigger", I mean popularity pretty much.
Selling 109 million copies of ONE album, BIG. lol
But now ways of measuring Popularity is way defferent than it was then. With album sales, yes it will give you a good statistic but it doesn't give you downloads that are not being counted. Before Albums was the most accurate way of doing so since it was the only way to distribute music. Now we have the internet, the Illegal downloading, youtube, google, and so on.
I agree.
Album sales was just an example I used to complement the term "popularity."
There's more to it than that, though. Even in MJ's case.
