Only These 3 Michael Jackson Albums Are Perfect

There is a movie out, at the time of writing, called Michael, and, to put it mildly, it has been doing quite well, since people like Michael Jackson and his music. Maybe that’s about as simple as it gets. He was the King of Pop, after all, and he pretty much dominated pop culture throughout the 1980s, and then quite a bit into the 1990s, too. Even then, that’s underselling Jackson, since his earliest solo albums came out in the 1970s (at least one of which was a classic), and he was also a member of The Jackson 5, alongside his brothers, and that group’s successes go back as far as the 1960s. Michael Jackson’s legacy has been more complicated in the 21st century, as he only released one album in the early 2000s, then had a particularly large amount of media scrutiny on him (largely related to allegations first made in the 1990s) throughout the rest of the decade, all before passing away suddenly at the age of just 50 in 2009, at a time when he was mounting a comeback tour dubbed This Is It, with rehearsals for that tour being documented in the documentary (also from 2009) Michael Jackson's This Is It.