Yes, those 'lifting' key changes in MJ's songs may seem gratuitous, but key changes were used more subtlety by, for instance, Beatles to enrich the music with e

Yes, those 'lifting' key changes in MJ's songs may seem gratuitous, but key changes were used more subtlety by, for instance, Beatles to enrich the music with expressiveness even at the expense of musical common sense. And if anything, pop music today is just too uniform.