I always found this to be fascinating…this is what ‘going viral’ meant in the 80s. Can you imagine the elation when you’re creating a new product and you hope it’ll sell 100k units but actually ends up selling 4,000,000?
I’ll always contend it was a confluence of factors…the NBA, music, movies, commerce, food…American culture as a whole.
Skills aside - we will never see another MJ in terms of his impact on popular culture. Don’t @ me.