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Kyle Eo @kingofthreads.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Say hi to Hooter everybody 👋 ❤️

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Kyle Eo @kingofthreads.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Rare? It’s from the official Michael Jackson 1985 calendar

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Kyle Eo @kingofthreads.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Imagine calling THE Thriller album “weak”

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Kyle Eo @kingofthreads.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

NO WAY THEY PRINTED MAN IN THE MIRROR AS “BAD MAN IN A MIRROR” IJBOL 😭😭😭

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Kyle Eo @kingofthreads.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I’m going to let you lot in on my new project because maybe you couId help in telling me what I should get/look for, or help in some way. I’m going to buy ads, posters, clippings, etc, and start a Michael Jackson scrap book. Here’s what I have atm (they’re still on their way)

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Kyle Eo @kingofthreads.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Since it’s Dangerous day, here’s my Dangerous collection #HeeHeeSky #MichaelJackson

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Kyle Eo @kingofthreads.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I wish I could post it here but it’s way too long to post one at a time but if you still have the bird app then here’s the Making Of Dangerous thread #MichaelJackson #HeeHeeSky x.com/lost_child_7...

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As always, thank you for reading. If you’re new here, then I appreciate you taking time out your day to read this and I hope you learned something new. And for those of us who like living dangerously… I’ll see you soon. The end.

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But now I leave it up to you. What do you think about Decade? Wish we got it? Glad we didn’t? What do you think about the idea of Michael recording some of his adolescent classics?

Michael did technically re-record I’ll Be There as an adult. Not to featured on a studio album though, but instead in a 1993 Pepsi in which Michael sings with his younger self. As for Never Can Say Goodbye? I guess the closest we got was Motown 25.

The closest we got to hear him sing ABC as an adult is in Work That Body as he reuses the “get up girl, I think I love ya” part, which Michael called his favourite part from ABC.

it was also rumoured that Michael would re-recorded ABC, I’ll Be There, and Never Can Say Goodbye for Decade, but Brad debunked this also. Although he continued to perform some of the songs throughout his career, I would’ve loved to hear Michael re-record some classic Jackson 5 songs.

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Brad Sunberg debunked this at one of his seminars, stating that Michael was indeed approached to record the track but decided to pass on offer.

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The Beatles track Strawberry Fields Forever also appears on the track list. It was widely believed that Michael recorded a cover of this song too, along with Come Together, but this too is false.

Not only that but a fake track list has been shared as well, which includes the track It Doesn’t Really Matter. Although this song was being worked on at the time it has never comforted to be considered for Decade, and eventually turned into Who Is It.

First, just to get them out of the way, these two Decade album covers have been spread around, with some fans believing them to be real. They are not.

Apparently Michael wanted to only feature songs from Off The Wall to the present, whereas the label wanted to include Motown tracks too. This is where the known things about Decade end and from now will be all rumours, speculation, and debunked stuff, so let’s get into it.

Another apparent reason as to why Deacde was constantly being pushed and delayed was that Michael and the label couId not agree on what songs appeared on the album.

Music & Me (the only Motown track featured on the album) appears on both of the DAT tracks from 1990 and 1992. Seemingly the “Decade” gimmick was eventually dropped after a number of missed deadlines, and now spanned from the early 70s to early 90s.

The leaked DAT track list for the 1980 - 1990 version of the album only includes Heal The World as a new track, as well as Come Together which had been heard previously in the film Moonwalk.

The track list for Decade has since been leaked online, along with a bunch of other stuff, after Brad Sunberg’s personal laptop was stolen after one of his In The Studio With Michael Jackson seminars.

Eventually the concept of the Decade album evolved into yet another album: HIStory. Once again, it was supposed to be a Greatest Hits record with a couple new songs but Michael being Michael yet again had enough songs for a new album.

Work on Decade continued up until May 1991, evolving in Dangerous as there was now enough new material to release instead. Decade was seemingly going to continue after Dangerous but was once again scrapped due to the 1993 allegations.

He wanted to focus on the newer material he was working on, like Heal The World. Another song worked on at this time was Man In Black. This song first became public knowledge after it was reported about in a British magazine:

With the album seemingly never going to see completion, it caused friction between Michael and the label. After all, they were more interested in this Greatest Hits album than Michael was.

A spokesperson said of the delays: “Michael is mixing and re-mixing. He won’t be content until everything is exactly as he wants it.”

The truth is, yes. Michael really was working on something; his first Greatest Hits album as an official solo artist, titled “Decade: 1979 - 1989,” then retitled to “1980 - 1990” as Michael missed four deadlines.

Instead of people being excited for this album, they instead started questioning the integrity of the rumour. Was Michael actually back in the studio recording new material?

Word about Michael’s “mystery album” began to spread in the late 80s, rumoured to be released in 1989. But that year came and went and nothing. It was now 1990 and the rumours continued, and just like the year prior, nothing was released.

But before we get there, it is time for Decade - an album shrouded in mystery and untruths, and with this thread hopefully you’ll have a better understanding of what this album was and was not going to be.

Thread 1 will be about the scrapped Decade album. Thread 2 will be the making of the Dangerous album, telling the story of each track one by one, the era as a whole, everything. Soon after that will be Thread 3, all about the songs that didn’t make the track list.

With the 33rd anniversary of the Dangerous album quickly approaching, it only makes sense for the next three threads (yes, three) to chronicle how the 1991 masterpiece came to be.