{"id":637,"date":"2024-02-17T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenathlone.com\/home\/?p=637"},"modified":"2024-05-02T13:27:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T13:27:53","slug":"favourite-albums-michael-jackson-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenathlone.com\/home\/2024\/02\/17\/favourite-albums-michael-jackson-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Favourite Albums &#8211; Michael Jackson\/BAD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Released late 1987, my best friend and I bought Bad as a going-away present for our mutual best friend who was leaving for the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think if we\u2019d known how astounding this album was, we might have kept it for ourselves.<br>Bad was a stratospheric success for MJ. A ten track album with 9 singles, five of which were number 1\u2019s. It debuted at number one in the US, selling 2.25 million copies\u2026 in its first week. It was the worldwide bestselling album of 1997 AND 1988! And it was the second biggest-selling album of all time, losing the number one spot to, you guessed it, Thriller.<br>Single after single after single, The Way You Make Me Feel, Smooth Criminal, Dirty Diana, Liberian Girl and on and on. I remember hearing a song from Bad on the radio for five years running. Man In The Mirror was still getting heavy rotation when I was moving into my college apartment in 1992!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Melodically, musically, vocally, there is no denying that this album blew the world apart. I still listen to tracks from Bad to this day. They still sound fresh, they still sound cool and they\u2019re still rocking.<br>Love him or hate him, MJ truly was, and continues to be, the King of Pop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">20albumsin20days<\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Released late 1987, my best friend and I bought <em>Bad<\/em> as a going-away present for our mutual best friend who was leaving for the UK. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,47,48],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-album-stories","tag-favourite-albums","tag-ig-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenathlone.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenathlone.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenathlone.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenathlone.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenathlone.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tenathlone.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"https:\/\/tenathlone.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenathlone.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenathlone.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenathlone.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenathlone.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}