jamiesoncox:

Here’s my newest piece for the Pitch, Pitchfork’s staff blog. “Love Never Felt So Good” is my favourite song of the year thus far, though of course it dates back over 30 years to Jackson and Paul Anka’s studio work together in 1983. There is an irrepressible, ecstatic joy to this song that I find impossible to deny. Jackson is such a physical, graceful vocalist; I know he’s working so hard — I can hear the snaps, the grunts, the way he moves back and forth behind the microphone, I know he did 20-something takes without a glass of water to get this right — but it’s all silk at this point, all clouds. Just promise me you’ll seek out the demo version of this song. It’ll break your heart.

Anyway, thanks for reading.