Thriller

Epic, under Sony. Horror as a party. The craft changed pop. The fright is a costume.

Epic put it out. Sony holds Epic. The song is a costume party about fear, and the costume is so well made that forty years later a child still knows the step.

That is stewardship of a craft, not of a soul. Enjoy the dance. Do not confuse it with a story about what to do when you are actually afraid.

The eight

Industry
9/10
Arrangement, dance, and a chorus the whole street learned. That is industry.
Household
4/10
A date, a scare, no household.
Piety
3/10
The dark is played with. Nothing is held as holy.
Courage
5/10
He walks toward the monster because the monster is the show.
Republic
4/10
A public joy. No duty.
Temperance
6/10
The scare ends. It does not ask you to live in it.
Truth
6/10
It is fiction and it knows it is fiction.
Stewardship
8/10
The record itself is what got handed on. The craft is the inheritance.

Live historicallyIf the house dances to it, let them. Then say it was Epic, and that the scare is a game.

Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 1982

Epic · Sony Music Entertainment

Beat It

Epic, under Sony. It doesn't matter who's wrong or right. Get out.

Epic released it. Sony owns Epic. Jackson tells a boy that the circle of bodies wants a beating, not a verdict, and the boy should leave. That is often the right sentence. It is the wrong sentence when someone weaker is already on the ground and leaving is abandonment.

Know which night it is.

The eight

Industry
8/10
The riff is a shove toward the door. It works.
Household
4/10
No house. A street that wants a show.
Piety
3/10
The counsel is survival, not justice.
Courage
6/10
He tells a boy not to perform bravery.
Republic
6/10
A crowd egging a child on. He says no to the crowd.
Temperance
6/10
Pride is the thing to put down.
Truth
6/10
The fight is not about the truth. He says so.
Stewardship
6/10
Useful in a parking lot. Thin if the cause is actually just.

Live historicallyIf the fight is pride, leave it. If someone small is in it, stay and end it. Do not use the chorus for both.