Word: throwin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What is there to be heard is a state-of-the-art dance record. Jackson's lyrics combine sometimes glancing felicity ("Your talk is cheap/ You're not a man/ You're throwin' stones/ To hide your hands") with scat-style facility. There is a great singer at work here, doing vocal stunts on tracks like Dirty Diana or Speed Demon that are as nimble and fanciful as any of his dance steps. Man in the Mirror, a ballad of confession and resolution, is more than just a vocal turn. It is a remarkable dramatic performance -- intense, direct and unadorned...
...hear tell that they're throwin' a birthday party for the Statue of Liberty, which has been around 'bout as long as my book, so I sort of feel it's my party too. A hundred years now that statue has said to folks all the way from Europe, and even France, that when they came to America they were not alone. But I think they knew they were alone. Everyone who escapes to freedom has to come alone, 'cause you are makin' your way from home, no matter how unfree home may be. You got to decide for yerself...