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Invincible
For such a boldly titled and apparently driven attempt to reinstate Michael Jackson at the center of the pop world, Invincible is a listless thing. Split between scratchy funk workouts and midtempo ballads that might have appeared as Bad B-sides, the album plays on and on while never seriously promoting dancing or romancing. Its handful of weird moments--the resurrection-by-tape of Biggie Smalls on the bridge of the title track, for instance--are hardly large-scale bizarre like the first disc of HIStory. The title track turns out to be hardly the rampant egofest you'd imagine; instead, its subject is a female whom Jackson cheers on. Likewise, the most ear-catching moments of the "comeback" single "You Rock My World" come with Chris Tucker's jivey introduction. Despite a debt to "Payback"-era James Brown, "Rock" floats away like steam midway through. It's almost a relief when the old self-regard turns up: on the growling "Privacy," Jackson rants about muckrakers "stalking" him in search of "the stories you need to bury me," all this long after foundering divas and troubled boy-group members have replaced him on tabloid covers. The man may occasionally break away from the mirror but seems unsure where else to find inspiration. --Rickey Wright
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Tracks| 1 | Unbreakable | | 2 | Heartbreaker | | 3 | Invincible | | 4 | Break Of Dawn | | 5 | Heaven Can Wait | | 6 | You Rock My World | | 7 | Butterflies | | 8 | Speechless | | 9 | 2000 Watts | | 10 | You Are My Life | | 11 | Privacy | | 12 | Don't Walk Away | | 13 | Cry | | 14 | The Lost Children | | 15 | Whatever Happens | | 16 | Threatened |
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