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Katy Perry Ties Michael Jackson's Historic Hot 100 Record

#61
jmorbita said:
Well, here's a story I heard from a coreographer that worked for both Michael Jackson and Madonna.
He used to hang out with Madonna, took her to gay clubs. So the dudes were dancing "vogue" style at these clubs. Madonna took the steps, made the song, got a number one hit.
So she got her influence from somewhere, changed it a bit and made it mainstream. I think it takes a lot of talent and brains to be able to do that.
I suppose it's sort of what MJ did with Toto.
I do think they can take credit for that.
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I was not talking about mere influence.
Toto played on a lot of that stuff and were directly, not indirectly involved. Steve Porcaro wrote "human nature".
If I was talking influence only, I would have said that MJ danced like james brown and sang like Smokey Robinson.:)
 
#64
Who cares......she has big boobs and she's hot.
Her and Britney Spears (you seen her lately?? Oh Lord she's smokin'!!) can be around for a long time if they want.
 
#66
Her music is bad IMO, but she probably didn't have much creative saying in the writing process anyway. That said, I would like to go all Mozart on her though.

Katy, I have more talent than you, but not the looks, we could team up, make a few hits, enjoy ourselves on some tropical beach afterwards and gently get to know each other physically. Well, maybe not that gently....

:D
 
#67
WJGreer said:
But it is in the same category as "Thriller" in the way the OP told us - they are the only two pop albums to have five #1 singles. For all we know, Katy Perry's album will end up with six.
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I just meant that making a #1 hit (or an album with five of them) is a very different thing now than it was thirty years ago. The whole field is different.

Anyway, the whole #1 thing is distorted anyway. There are songs that peaked at #10 which were bigger sellers than songs that hit #1; they just didn't reach the top spot on the charts because overall volume was higher that week and other songs were selling even better.
 

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