When Sean Kingston released his 2011 song “Beat It,” he faced an uphill battle. The title of the track, so closely tied to Michael Jackson‘s iconic 1982 hit “Beat It” from his album Thriller, was ...
For an album that not long after ... what was happening back then, MTV and Michael Jackson made each other go viral. Jackson’s second MTV video, for “Beat It,” was yet another master stroke ...
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The Grammys may have issues being biased against some genres, but in 1988, the Academy broke years of tradition in picking ...