Rating: 9/10
Favourite Tracks: They Don't Care About Us, This Time Around, Earth Song, You Are Not Alone, Childhood
Least Favourite Track: N/A
On this review I will be reviewing an album which was released in 1995 on 16th June 1995. It's Michael's fifth studio album called "History".
Since reviewing his other 4 albums we now move on to his fifth album. Despite it's not my favourite album. I really like the album cover. It's a fantastic MJ statue which can be found in Netherlands. The album is really interesting as it includes 2 discs. The first disc has tracks which are greatest hits from his previous four albums. However in the second disc it is the full length album with tracks such as "They Don't Care About Us", "Little Susie", "You Are Not Alone", "Earth Song" and many more. I personally do not think that this album is underrated it's one of the albums where some fans would classify as their favourite. I would disagree with some fans saying that this album is better than "Thriller" which we all know that "Thriller" is one of the greatest albums of all time. However I can understand that fans have different opinions when it HIStory achieved a 7x platinum in US whereas in the UK it achieved 4x platinum. This album sold 20 million copies from around the world. It sold 3,500,000 in the US whereas the UK only sold 1.500.000 which became its lowest out of all the MJ albums. Since hearing this album what did I think of it? I thought this album was another good album. When I was a kid I used to have a cassette player and I had a copy of the Cassette for HIStory I always used to rewind to the track "Earth Song" which was the song that just made me want to listen to on repeat it was just so good.
Moving on to my favourite tracks on the album which were "They Don't Care About Us", "This Time Around", "Earth Song", "You Are Not Alone", "Childhood".Starting off with "They Don't Care About Us" which is my third favourite track on the album such a great powerful track definitely one of the strongest's on the album. "This Time Around" which features the greatest rapper of all time "The Notorious B.I.G". Fantastic collaboration I enjoyed the production to the track. Both done very well on this track. "Earth Song" my favourite track on the album. I love this track so much. Its such an underrated track it's definitely one of Michael's best. The track is about our Earth on what's going on with our planet Earth. "You Are Not Alone" I really loved how R Kelly produced this masterpiece excellent production. Such a peaceful R&B song. It was a Christmas number 1 back in 1995. "Childhood" such a sad song about his childhood. The song was featured in a movie called "Free Willy 2" which I have only seen the first one, This song is underrated and definitely one of the strongest on this album. No least favourite tracks on this album.
Overall I enjoyed listening to this album. Such a great album with good tracks on it. I really liked the idea of having disc 1 as a greatest hits album and disc 2 the main studio album. It's a 9/10
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