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Michael Jackson was truly a man of many talents when it came to the performing arts. He was taught to sing and dance as a child, making him the breakout star of his family band The Jackson 5. As he continued to excel in music, he also grew in one of his other talents: songwriting.
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Michael Jackson did indeed write his own music, but not like any ordinary musician.
In fact, he composed whole songs in his head, before he even attempted to notate them.
From court documents reported by NME, Jackson said: “The lyrics, the strings, the chords, everything comes at the moment like a gift that is put right into your head and that’s how I hear it.
“I’ll just sing the bass part into the tape recorder,” before he sang snippets of a melody.
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He added: “I’ll take that bass lick and put the chords of the melody over the bass lick and that’s what inspires the melody.”
During this case, which saw songwriter Crystal Cartier take Jackson to court for plagiarism over his song Dangerous, Jackson even beat-boxed in court to show how he writes his songs, explaining his writing process.
He explained further how he came to write the song Billie Jean: “Listen, you’re hearing four basses on there, doing four different personalities, and that’s what gives it character, but it takes a lot of work.”
In the end, the judge ruled in favour of Jackson and his co-writers, Bill Bottrell and Teddy Riley, due to lack of evidence for Cartier’s claim.
Michael also claimed to find songs just ‘came to him’ in unexpected ways, as was recently posted on his Twitter.