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Jackson's greatest failing has been a tendency to go for the glitz, and while he's curbed the urge on Thriller, he hasn't obliterated it entirely. The end of side two, especially "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)," isn't up to the spunky character of the other tracks. And the title song, which at first sounds like a metaphoric examination of the same under-siege mentality that marks the LP's best moments, instead degenerates into silly camp, with a rap by Vincent Price.
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Rod Temperton wrote this for Michael Jackson because he knoew of Jackson's affinity of cheesy monster or "thriller" movies on television. The song is about a guy trying to "make time" with a girl by having her watch a scary movie on TV with him so she'll get scared and hold on to him.
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Twenty-five years ago - on Saturday, Dec. 1, 1982 - Jackson delivered "Thriller," a terse nine-song set that threw so huge a boulder into the pop pool that it ripples to this day. It wasn't just the music: "Thriller's" related products and performances affected video, dance and fashion on levels that had to do with everything from esthetics to race.
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