This is Thriller. For those who believe the myth that Michael Jackson was a perpetual 9 year old, perhaps you should listen to this album. Excluding Paul McCartney’s terrible track, The Girl is Mine, it is pretty obvious that a brilliant adult conceived these songs, not to mention the music videos that he designed, choreographed, and performed. The perpetual child discussion is a farce. I guess I am suggesting that his various oddities were a result of some other imbalance, and that his dealings with children were nefarious. So be it.

Thriller was and is awesome. I remember being so young watching the videos from this album at my grandmother’s house in Lansing, IL. She had cable. She was sort of weirded out that I liked colored music, but hey, Chief Justice John Roberts didn’t get it either and he is only three years older than Jackson! My grandma was probably 80 at the time. Whatever, Colbert would call him double-white. Can you imagine, being so white and so self important that you feel compelled to write a memo recommending that the King of Pop should not be invited to the white house? I digress, as usual.

I never had a jacket or a glove, but I still can listen to Wanna be Startin’ Somethin’ any day of the week. Whatever happened is unfortunate, but it was not unpredictable, obviously.

Let’s do a little project. Can you email me your scans of Thriller? Send them as a high resolution scan and I will clean them up and post them. Don’t forget to include a narrative to go with the scan. I will be posting the scan of the tape itself next. Perhaps I will include audio too, especially if the tape is distorted.

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Nick De Pirro