Invincible
Studio album by Michael JacksonWikipedia
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Aug 29, 2026
Karin MerxHOST
Your hosts are Academic Elizabeth Amizu and Academic Karin Merx.
Karin MerxHOST
And in this episode, we celebrate Michael Jackson, uh, and his birthday, on his birthday, and we do this by discussing the album Invincible.
Karin MerxHOST
Um, yeah, this is a special.
Karin MerxHOST
It, uh, breaks the pattern of our series about Dangerous Philosophies, uh, the book written by Elizabeth, and, um, in that respect, Invincible will also come back there.
Karin MerxHOST
Yeah.
Karin MerxHOST
So I also have a premise.
Karin MerxHOST
Um, are we imposing coherence on Invincible retrospectively, or does the album itself provide sufficient evidence for identifying recurrent conceptual structure? And, um, yeah, with that, I would say does Invincible represent a movement from confrontation toward introspection? What do you think?
Elizabeth AmisuHOST
I think, you know, the first thing I would tell people to do, like, if they wanted to study Invincible and they wanted to get really into, into, into the album, is to read chapter seven of the first edition, Man in the Music, because you need to contextualize Invincible a lot, 'cause it came at a very specific time in, like, music history.
Karin MerxHOST
And in this episode, we celebrate Michael Jackson and his birthday, on his birthday.
Karin MerxHOST
And we do this by discussing the album Invincible.
Karin MerxHOST
Yeah, this is a special.
Karin MerxHOST
It breaks the pattern of our series about the dangerous philosophies, the book written by Elizabeth.
Karin MerxHOST
Yeah.
Karin MerxHOST
So I also have a premise.
Karin MerxHOST
Are we imposing coherence on Invincible retrospectively, or does the album itself provide sufficient evidence for identifying recurrent conceptual structure? And yeah, with that, I would say, does Invincible represent a movement from confrontation toward introspection? What do you think?
Elizabeth AmisuHOST
think you know the first thing I would tell people to do like if they wanted to study Invincible and they wanted to get really into into into the album is to read chapter seven of the first edition Man in the Music because you need to contextualize Invincible a lot because it came at a very specific time in like music history All of Michael Jackson's albums came at a very crucial time in music history, but none more so than Invincible.
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This exact archival clip was woven into the track As Above, So Below.
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Peaked at number 120 on the Billboard albums chart, had popular songs Spirit in the Night, a celebrated Bruce Springsteen cover, and Visionary Mountains.
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In 1977, Dennis Wilson released Pacific Ocean Blue.
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This was his debut solo studio album, and it was the first one that was ever released by a member of The Beach Boys.
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Co-founder Dennis Wilson's masterpiece was embraced by critics for its melancholic depths, capturing a dark confessional side of his music ship.
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Didn't do too well though, but it got into the top 100.
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It peaked at number 96 on the Billboard albums chart.
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Hit number five in Norway though.
LettyHOST
He doesn't know how he feels about Michael Jackson because he feels robbed.
LettyHOST
So Michael Jackson has a album called Invincible.
LettyHOST
On that album there's a song called 500 Watts.
LettyHOST
[laughs] But apparently-
Eric ColleyHOST
He was already famous, but still making his name.
Eric ColleyHOST
But as a young, up-and-coming songwriter, Pharrell got the chance to pitch songs to Michael Jackson when Michael was recording his Invincible album that came out in 2001.
Eric ColleyHOST
And so he thought, I'm going to go back to that old school Michael sound, like that off the wall, rock with you era.
Eric ColleyHOST
And Michael's like, no, I've done that, basically.
Fresh KnightHOST
I'm...
Fresh KnightHOST
I had to really think about it and I'm still kind of thinking about it because I'm like, I'm kind of dancing around between like two albums.
Confucius JonesHOST
So what I came to my conclusion was, An album that no matter how I'm feeling, what I'm doing, or how much time has passed, can be put on and I'll still listen to it in rapid word for word.
Fresh KnightHOST
Got
Confucius JonesHOST
you.
Confucius JonesHOST
So that excludes a lot of albums.
Confucius JonesHOST
Like, for example, I love Jay-Z's 444.
Confucius JonesHOST
I love Reasonable Doubt.