Michael Jackson's The Lady In My Life

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Michael Jackson is known as the greatest entertainer of all-time. Even though he became known for classic pop hits such as Beat It, Billie Jean, and Thriller, Jackson is more than a one-dimensional artist. Jackson have the ability to cover all genre of music from techno to gospel. Next to pop, love songs are Jackson’s second strongest suit in music. In 1982, Jackson released The Lady in my Life, arguably his greatest love ballads of his career. Unlike Trey Songz who used the vulgar and infidelity language about his sex-partner, from the opening lines of “There be no darkness tonight, lady our love will shine,” Jackson captured the nature of

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