Saturday, November 29, 2008
"Another Part of Me," Michael Jackson (9/17/88)
Jacko notched up 5 #1s from Bad on both the pop and R&B charts. The first four hit it on both, but for the fifth, pop radio went for "Dirty Diana" (#5 R&B) while R&B went for "Another Part of Me" (#11 pop). In its synthesized, mechanized pulse, it's certainly more cod-soulful than the Steve Stevens-featuring "Diana," but then again it's not exactly soul. But it's MJ, so to a certain extent nothing else mattered. All the fun's gone, however; there seems a magic missing here, with Michael's vocal more tight and clenched than normal (at the time) and the track very by-the-numbers. "Me" isn't bad, exactly, but neither is it very enjoyable. C+
Jacko notched up 5 #1s from Bad on both the pop and R&B charts. The first four hit it on both, but for the fifth, pop radio went for "Dirty Diana" (#5 R&B) while R&B went for "Another Part of Me" (#11 pop). In its synthesized, mechanized pulse, it's certainly more cod-soulful than the Steve Stevens-featuring "Diana," but then again it's not exactly soul. But it's MJ, so to a certain extent nothing else mattered. All the fun's gone, however; there seems a magic missing here, with Michael's vocal more tight and clenched than normal (at the time) and the track very by-the-numbers. "Me" isn't bad, exactly, but neither is it very enjoyable. C+
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