"Thriller" by Michael Jackson

<p class="ui_qtext_para">Darkness falls across the land, and it's the right time for Michael Jackson's "Thriller."</p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>STRONG SONGS ON PATREON</strong></span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Strong Songs <a href= "https://www.patreon.com/strongsongs"><span class="s2">has a Patreon</span></a>! If you liked this episode (or, you know, any of them), we hope you'll consider supporting the show. Learn more here: <a href= "https://www.patreon.com/strongsongs"><span class= "s2">https://www.patreon.com/strongsongs</span></a></span></p> <p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1">IT'S CLOSE TO MIDNIGHT</span></strong></p> <p class="ui_qtext_para">Kirk picks apart Rod Temperton's dance floor classic in all its groovy, corny, sound effect-y glory.</p> <p><strong>Band/Artist: </strong>Michael Jackson</p> <p><strong>Album:</strong> <em>Thriller,</em> 1982</p> <p><strong>Composed by: </strong>Rod Temperton, produced by Quincy Jones</p> <p><strong>Listen/Buy: </strong><a href= "https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/thriller/269572838">Apple Music</a> | <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Thriller-Michael-Jackson/dp/B0000025RI">Amazon</a> | <a href= "https://open.spotify.com/album/2ANVost0y2y52ema1E9xAZ">Spotify</a></p> <p>------</p> <p class="p1"><strong>A NOTE FROM KIRK:</strong></p> <p class="p1">It’s been a couple months since I produced this episode, and just a few days since I watched the first part of “Leaving Neverland,” a devastating new HBO documentary in which two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, detail their alleged childhood sexual abuse at the hands of Michael Jackson. It’s an intense and difficult documentary to watch, but I recommend that everyone listening to this episode do so. Jackson’s estate denies it all, but watching people on camera relaying such painful memories, in such excruciating detail, is both wrenching and convincing.</p> <p class="p1">It’s impossible to separate an amazing song like “Thriller” from the man who sang it. I still think Thriller is a great song and