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Michael Jackson's influence on music continues with each day, and in a new interview, Justin Timberlake discusses the perfection that MJ attained through his artistry.
Timberlake says of MJ to MTV, "If there's anything that I think my generation of artists — including myself, obviously — emulate about Michael, it's that he felt what he was doing so much that his vocal presentation of the song, you can tell when he was cutting the record he was probably dancing in the booth. At least that's what it seems like to me. That type of energy, that kinetic energy into the music, I think that's what we all try to emulate. From hip-hop to pop to rock and roll, I think that there's inflection that he put into music as a vocalist that no one had ever really heard that way." Timberlake continues, "Growing up in Tennessee, I never really understood the phenomenon that was Michael Jackson or the pandemonium that followed him around," JT said. "I just heard certain songs that I loved as a kid and I gravitated toward those songs. It just so happens that 99.79 percent of his songs are perfect. They're perfect songs. The other whatever percentage are works of art as well."
Watch the interview:
When asked about Michael Jackson's documentary, 'This Is It', Timberlake replied, "It looks like a more intimate view than anything we've seen. I'm sure it will be good."
Will you be watching 'This Is It'?
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