trash. just pure trash. she's an amazing vocalist as an adult IMO, but here she sounds like a bag of dying cats. she must've not had lessons at this point.
in that second video singing "home" at 1:24, we're gonna pretend she didn't miss the entirety of that note?
and where was she performing? at a local election polling place?
MJ was performing at the ed sullivan show, the #1 show in america at that time; all of black america was glued to their TV's when they performed.
MJ never missed a note, especially as a youth.
the jackson 5's first ever recorded live performance before the motown years MJ was 9 years old here: