Talk:I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)

Billie Jean mistake
The reference says Billie Jean came out 2 years before the Hall & Oates track. Incorrect. Billie Jean was released in 1983, ie after I Can't Go For That. I tried deleting this but it seems embedded in the reference. Vauxhall1964 (talk) 12:44, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Billie Jean
Billie jean was first written in 1979. Not very accurate — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amazingcreator79 (talk • contribs) 00:13, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

"Influence on Jackson's Billie Jean" - gets its own heading/paragraph? It is literally a footnote to the topic. And should be to the entry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.48.76.59 (talk) 14:17, 28 June 2012 (UTC)


 * thank you. they also made their opinion into fact, in their eyes, that this song influenced Billie Jean, when it should have said *allegedly* influenced Billie Jean. This is part of a long line of individuals smearing Michael Jackson. More notably, they wait until he's dead, then present this one-sided argument. 2 plus 2 always equals 10, at least, from clouded, seeming circumstantial "evidence". What about Michael stating he told Freddie Mercury of Queen fame, that Freddy's "Another One Bites The Dust" should be released as a single https://www.bing.com/search?q=when%20Michael%20Jackson%20told%20Freddie%20Mercury%20that%20he%20should%20release%20another%20one%20bites%20the%20dust&FORM=ARPSEC&PC=ARPL&PTAG=30166. That, later, manifested, and Billie Jean's intro drum beat seems to mimic it., much more than it does anything, resembling the Hall and Oates song. Wiki is supposed to gather real evidence, before making a declaration of this magnitude. We understand the iconic status of Billie Jean, and the desire to 'put it and Michael in their place", as Michael's legend speaks for itself, and enormous envy of him, is an expected byproduct. However, there is no excuse for this decades-long smear campaign. That includes Hall. We know if the situation were reversed, the wiki crew wouldn't mention it in an article. Also, truth tends to get deleted, and banned. 164.52.228.66 (talk) 02:34, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
 * And, ultimately, one would say Hall is one of many whom the media unintentionally outed as following a movement called "blue-eyed soul, so the writers of the original article, here, and Hall, should take note. You lifted the sound of black music, and the Billboards of the world latched on, and drove you to number one, on the shoulders of blacks, forced to work for free. 50.221.229.42 (talk) 06:15, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

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unsourced genres
As with Talk:She's Gone (Hall & Oates song), we will need either reliable sources for genres, a consensus supporting a genre or genres or no genres at all.

Unlike "She's Gone", I don't see this song as a clear example of blue-eyed soul and am fully inclined to say we list no genres at all, if sources cannot be found. - Sum mer PhD v2.0 14:49, 3 July 2017 (UTC)