Musically speaking, was he a trendsetter or a trend chaser? Did he ever do anything that wasn't already popular at the time?
>>121572423Thriller was a trendsetter album, Bad took too long to record to be ahead or behind any trend, and pretty much everything from Dangerous onward was just playing catchup with R&B and even with his own sister. He remained a megastar till the end but his actual musical influence was extremely shortlived, kind of like Oasis.