While he may not of thought that way I can’t see his manger/label or father not saying something to him. Like you can’t be a bad boy or try to be a sex symbol and hang out with kids like this. People will question you and you’re opening yourself up to lawsuits. |
Michael had too much money unfortunately to be corrected. His family lived off him. They knew he was weird but what can they do really? His Vice wasn’t gambling or drugs or alcohol or women like most other entertainers. He had severe disassociation. He thought he was Peter Pan. He wanted to look like Peter Pan. He didn’t want to be black or a man. He wanted to be a kid. He watched cartoons as an adult. He didn’t live in the reality of who he was. |
I always feel sick to my stomach when I hear his music now. |
I believe he wasn’t a child molestor. He grew up sharing a bunk bed with his 5 brothers and
Going on the road with them. He thinks he is creating fun sleepovers and family with Neverland. There were girls at neverland too but that’s never reported. He wanted to hang out with Make a Wish kids to give them a great time and some happiness |
This seems quite a delusional fairy tale. I thought his accusers accurately described his penis. |
But he never tried to be a sex symbol or bad boy? You see this more as his music goes on. If anything he tried to reject those boxes. |
The accusers also said he gave them “Jesus juice” wine and pills. One of the accusers was on medication and dying of cancer but apparently drank and took pills without issue. Lots of things that didn’t add up and that’s why the jury voted not guilty. |
Because cancel culture is a new phenomenon brought on by millennials and gen Z. The rest of us understand the difference between a bad person and bad music. He was clearly not well, but that doesn't mean his music wasn't good. |
He certainly fit all the criteria of a predator but the parents also fit all the criteria of extortionists. Neverland is not what any normal adult male would build and no normal adult male wants to spend every waking second around children, cartoons, and animals.
Because he was rich, he was able to hire a better defense team. If the parents weren’t verbally greedy and bragging about something as vile as a payday for molestation, perhaps he would’ve been found guilty. He always insisted he was innocent though. I don’t think he lived a great life afterward. He died in his sleep unexpectedly at the fairly young age of 50. He was the first to die in his family |
But Jackson also had a huge 20M settlement with one of his accusers. |
if he were alive, paying to watch his shows or buy his music would feel icky (like im making it possible for him to continue the abuse). But he’s dead. I don’t see the harm in listening to the songs and feeling nostalgic for what may have been happening in my life back then.
If it makes you feel icky to hear his songs now, then by all means don’t listen. But I don’t think there should be any judgment either way. If you only ingest art by “good” people, you’d be spending a lot of time doing background checks. |
But I also don’t want to listen to his music anymore because the music reminds me of him, how weird he was, what he may or may not have done, and it’s just not something I want to support. There’s plenty of other options that don’t make me feel gross. I’ve heard his music, it’s decades old now, don’t need to hear it anymore. |
He met her when she was 9 and "rasied" her to be his wife. The Marquis deSade wrote a book about it. I'm sure Woody read it and made it happen for himself. He's a sick dude. His daughter/wife is also not so bright and I personally think it's another sin to take advantage of a not-bright person. |
He died of a drug overdose he demanded just like matt perry. It's very expected. |
Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) abused kids, notably the girl who inspired the Alice character, and yet Disney still made a blockbuster animated movie about Alice in Wonderland, and the images and stories of Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are everywhere. In the name of Art, many things are forgotten. |