Now, I know that Michele on debaser is kind of the antichrist, but say what you want, he has made some good music too, and "Off the Wall" remains a beautiful album of pop-dance-r&b-funky-disco, black music for everyone, yes, but of excellent quality. For me, this is his most beautiful album, it’s the prodigy boy who finally grows up, it’s the consecration and definitive artistic maturity of this young son of Motown who here reaches his highest point; "Off the Wall" is the culmination of the first part of his career, from the Jackson 5 onwards, the end of his musically most spontaneous and visceral period. And it’s a lively, brilliant, inspired album, perfect for moving your hips, played, sung, and produced really well, you can feel the weight of people like Quincy Jones and authors like Rod Temperton ("Rock With You", title track, and "Burn This Disco Out", great tracks) the friend, source of inspiration, and another former child prodigy, Stefanino Meraviglia, and Jackson himself, in great shape as a songwriter, both on his own ("Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough") and together with bassist Louis Johnson ("Get on the Floor", another gem). Macca also participates, not at his best. Then "She's Out of My Life" is overly sultry and unnecessarily heavy in the interpretation, but apart from that, this album flows like a fairy tale. After this, there will be "Thriller", there will be the phase of the "King of Pop", there will be less "carnal" sounds, more plastic and synthetic, more "fake," in short, it will be something else.
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