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Who do you bros like better: prince or michael jackson?
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Date: September 1st, 2026 7:40 PM Author: dashing garrison (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50109711) |
Date: September 1st, 2026 7:42 PM Author: Talented mad-dog skullcap corner Prince, as a person and also musically. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50109716) |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 7:43 PM Author: pea-brained coral stead multi-billionaire Prince but I've never gotten the full on adoration he gets, obviously super talented but I really only like a handful of his songs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50109721) |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 7:44 PM Author: dashing garrison Same. MJ is better for dancing and iconic pop hits. But prince has better style. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50109726) |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 7:45 PM Author: motley temple style at what? do you think Prince was a frontman like MJ? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50109731) |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 7:49 PM Author: dashing garrison a frontman? I think they were both better described as solo artists at their peak. obviously prince led the revolution and new power generation so you could loosely call him their frontman. style, like michael jackson had a cheesier maximalist 80s pop spectacle style. prince was innovative, blurred genres and holds up better over time (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50109743) |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 7:50 PM Author: irradiated old irish cottage Game, blouses (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50109746) |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 7:45 PM Author: motley temple two completely different artists that can't really be directly. Prince was above all a guitar virtuoso. meaning, he was a musician.
MJ was an entertainer. two different things |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 7:53 PM Author: avocado doobsian volcanic crater hell Michael was a musician who used his voice as his instrument hth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50109752) |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 7:59 PM Author: motley temple have you ever stopped yourself and asked yourself, like Michael did, have you seen my childhood?
I have ...
i have ...
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 8:57 AM Author: Zombie-like organic girlfriend puppy Prince wasn't really known as a guitar virtuoso until his 2004 Rock and Roll HOF performance. By that time he'd already released close to 30 albums (about 2/3 of the total during his lifetime). Granted, some of this is semantic, and those who knew knew well before 2004 but to say he was "above all" guitar virtuoso is a pretty narrow assessment. He was also 5'2" with a comically enormous dick. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50110488) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 9:02 AM Author: dashing garrison There are pics of his dick? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50110493) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 1:22 PM Author: motley temple i guess, this comment kind of sums up the disconnect. itt and with cultural threads on xo in general.
your poa and "wasn't really known" in particular is from a mainstream perspective. that's never been the perspective i come from.
so, i should stop participating in xo cultural threads because we're always talking about how something or one is perceived by the mainstream, which is gay.
also, Prince dick pics or your poa, this tread, and my life in general is worthless |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 10:55 AM Author: Cowardly bateful private investor shitlib less of a guitar virtuoso, more of an all around musician who played all of his instruments, sang well, wrote songs well, and maintained a mysterious cool image for decades. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50110712) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 2:37 PM Author: motley temple (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50111486) |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 7:45 PM Author: Stimulating round eye prince because he wrote his own stuff while michael had an army of songwriters (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50109729) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 8:56 AM Author: Bat-shit-crazy slate range dingle berry i don't think those rules apply to pop stars; it's expected that they just parrot other people's songs. so i don't think that should disqualify him or ding him at all.
now, drake deserves a hit to his rep as a rapper/lyricist because it's now known that he's had lyrics written for him. same would be true of any musician (such as prince). not fair, but them's the rules. |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 10:55 AM Author: avocado doobsian volcanic crater hell Believe it or not Michael wrote a lot of his own stuff. He wasn't the typical pop star reliant on songwriters. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50110710) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 10:56 AM Author: Cowardly bateful private investor shitlib Michael co-wrote we are the world, and tons of his own hits. He had talent writing for sure (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50110715) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 11:04 AM Author: avocado doobsian volcanic crater hell He has sole credits on many big hits including Billie Jean. Q would assemble the best session players in the world and Michael would tell them what to play. Billie Jean started as a demo Michael made by himself at home. He had the whole song. He just brought the demo to Q. 3 billion streams on Spotify. No army of songwriters. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50110744) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 11:31 AM Author: Bat-shit-crazy slate range dingle berry supposedly he wrote eddie van halen's solo on beat it, and he played it on the demo version. van halen's recording basically mimic's MJ's playing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50110816) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 11:40 AM Author: avocado doobsian volcanic crater hell There's no way lol. I don't believe this. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50110841) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 1:47 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy slate range dingle berry i obviously made that up, you fool (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50111292) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 2:45 PM Author: Cowardly bateful private investor shitlib I listened to the Alex Van Halen audiobook recently on spotify (my first audiobook) - Eddie did that solo in one take, as a solo to MJ, and apparently David Lee Roth got ir8 over him doing projects away from Van Halen band (Dave also didn't go to Eddie's wedding to Valerie Bertenelli because she was more famous at the time than the band, overshadowed the band and its music).
I would argue that the Beat It solo is the most famous and recognized solo in history - and its perfect, tells a story despite a very short length for a pop song, crescendos just perfectly, and its attached to an all time great song - everything about it is perfect. |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 3:26 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy slate range dingle berry i can't disagree man. it was a hell of a solo. and i don't care for the guitar virtuoso stuff usually. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50111636) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 3:49 PM Author: avocado doobsian volcanic crater hell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50111670) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 3:51 PM Author: avocado doobsian volcanic crater hell To be fair, the Purple Rain solo is also amazing and lyrical and most people can sing its core motif. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50111674) |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 7:46 PM Author: irradiated old irish cottage mj
prince was wayyyy too full of himself
if i was rich and famous id live it like prince though |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 8:00 PM Author: Khaki awkward idiot nowag Couple of faggots (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50109763) |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 8:00 PM Author: thriller aquamarine incel international law enforcement agency the son? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50109764) |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 8:00 PM Author: motley temple (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50109765) |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 8:01 PM Author: avocado doobsian volcanic crater hell Michael was better than Prince. Prince wrote a lot of stuff that wasn't good that no one has ever listened to and never will. He also only has 1-2 songs that are as good as MJ's best songs and MJ has a dozen. He also doesn't have that many crappy records. Prince has a TON. Even Prince's best albums have a lot of filler.
Prince was really good at guitar but he wasn't very good at writing songs. In fact some of his most iconic riffs were by his bandmates, such as the intro to Purple Rain or the keyboard riff on When You Were Mine. He was actually seemingly pretty terrible at writing music for someone so obviously talented. Conversely Michael wrote way more of his own stuff than most people are aware. He was essential to the creative process. Worked closely with Quincy Jones. He had an incredible vision for most of his records. Compared to modern pop stars Michael was a hundred times more involved. Prince sat there in his studio making mostly garbage and needed his buddies to kind of bail him out.
Also if not for Purple Rain Prince would be a footnote. You take one song off the board and his entire career is SPS. There is no MJ song that if he didn't make it he wouldn't still be MJ.
Also in a weird twist of irony Prince was extremely obsessed with the choreography of the live performance, which no one actually cared about because the music wasn't very good and no one really gave a shit about hum dancing around in platform shoes. The irony is Michael cared way more about putting out good music AND he was like a thousand times better at dancing than Prince. LOL. |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 8:06 PM Author: dashing garrison MJ was the master of gigantic, polished, iconic pop. Prince was more idiosyncratic—funk, rock, new wave, psychedelia, R&B, androgyny, glam, weird synth experimentation. MJ is more for low iq mainstream pop fans, where prince is a master of style for people who are capable of understanding good art. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50109778) |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 8:09 PM Author: avocado doobsian volcanic crater hell Prince really isn't that good though and MJs stuff is just awesome and it's not even that dumb. Thriller makes "1989" look like AI slop. Some of the greatest musicians of the 80s performed on Thriller including Eddie van Halen. It's actually not stupid. Meanwhile yes Prince blended complex styles, but not well! He has very few hits. Most of it doesn't land. And even when it does it's just kind of okay. And then you realize a lot of it is actually just shite really. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50109783) |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 8:14 PM Author: dashing garrison Thriller was a legitimately sophisticated pop record with quincy jones and eddy van halen playing the beat it solo etc. I agree prince sometimes valued experimentation more than editing. Someone can hear Sign of the Times and think, understand what he's doing but rather listen to billy jean. Not true he had very few hits though prince had probably like 20 billboard hits. And Prince's genre blending landed for plenty of serious listeners not just prince obsessives. Critics generally rate him higher than mj. He didn't have as good quality control as mj, i'll give you that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50109794) |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 9:33 PM Author: avocado doobsian volcanic crater hell Prince was extremely overrated imo and it doesn't hold up (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50109981) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 2:48 PM Author: Cowardly bateful private investor shitlib I wont say he is overrated, but maybe he is a little.
I actually own a couple post-Purple Rain 90s albums of his, they are mostly unlistenable, arranged like gospel album musicianship |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 3:19 PM Author: avocado doobsian volcanic crater hell I could pull out a ton of Prince tracks where any rational listener would just go, "Huh?" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50111606) |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 8:10 PM Author: Vibrant opaque indian lodge prole they're both great, sad to see attempted takedowns itt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50109785) |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 8:15 PM Author: dashing garrison mj is 180 im just being a dick to argue with Historical American about music, because he always has REALLY STRONG opinions about it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50109796) |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 9:08 PM Author: avocado doobsian volcanic crater hell I'm a visionary (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50109903) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 12:50 PM Author: Swashbuckling brass sound barrier dragon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50111096) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 10:38 AM Author: Vibrant opaque indian lodge prole thank you for your content (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50110649) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 12:50 PM Author: Swashbuckling brass sound barrier dragon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50111097) |
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Date: September 1st, 2026 8:10 PM Author: Slap-happy Sandwich I know prince tp but I’m not aware of a Michael Jackson tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50109786) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 12:49 PM Author: Swashbuckling brass sound barrier dragon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50111095) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 12:50 PM Author: Glittery Public Bath (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50111101) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 8:40 AM Author: dashing garrison (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50110473) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 12:50 PM Author: Swashbuckling brass sound barrier dragon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50111100) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 8:55 AM Author: Bat-shit-crazy slate range dingle berry MJ. i never did get into prince even though i recognize his talent.
thriller is a nearly perfect album. |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 2:48 PM Author: Curious Hideous Point (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50111521) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 12:51 PM Author: Swashbuckling brass sound barrier dragon I wanna be the only guy who makes you come… poastinggggg 🐶 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50111104) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 12:51 PM Author: Flatulent chrome stage Prince’s super bowl show PWNd MJ’s. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50111107) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 12:53 PM Author: Swashbuckling brass sound barrier dragon How can you choose between Autoadmit and ZoZo??? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50111113) |
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Date: September 2nd, 2026 12:54 PM Author: Swashbuckling brass sound barrier dragon Heal the Bort / make it a better place / for you and for me and the entire hamster race 🙏 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5899791&forum_id=2~#50111115) |