I put it this way: Yes, the guy became a major flake but he paved the way for a lot of musicians and NOBODY can say they didn't like at least one Michael Jackson song.
This is going to be our generation's Where Were You When Michael Died.
The only celebrity I can think of who compares to Michael Jackson is John Lennon. They had about the same level of fame and the same level of fucked up-ed-ness, but they were going opposite directions on the same trajectory - while John Lennon started out an abuser of women, an open misogynist, and a self-absorbed asshole, as he grew up in the public eye he actively struggled and fought to grow on a personal level to the point where he was a positive influence on people and generally a likeable human being. Michael Jackson started out as a positive influence and a likeable human being, but as he grew in the public eye, he degenerated into an abuser of children whose legacy is now part of a culture in which a guy can abuse children and it never becomes a part of the dialogue surrounding him after he dies.
To act like discussing Michael Jackson's legacy without including the fact that he was an abuser is anything but being implicit in a culture that actively silences victims of child abuse is an act of self-delusion. I'm sorry, but it
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You are proof that his reputation as an abuser WILL become part of the dialog
Um, and you're proof that people generally want to avoid that. So what's going to happen? And which side of "either this gets talked about or it doesn't" do you really want to be on?
I realize that I'm making something of an assumption here, but what your post reads like to me is that you just want to be able to dance around without thinking about things that make you uncomfortable, and not everyone can really do that. Nor do I think we should.
And we're two people. We make up a dialogue (or dialog, I can never decide how I want to spell that, since I think both are technically correct somehow) that includes both the music and the abuse. And even when I was just monologuing, I still mentioned the abuse. It's an irrevocable part of his life
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This is going to be our generation's Where Were You When Michael Died.
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To act like discussing Michael Jackson's legacy without including the fact that he was an abuser is anything but being implicit in a culture that actively silences victims of child abuse is an act of self-delusion. I'm sorry, but it ( ... )
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Um, and you're proof that people generally want to avoid that. So what's going to happen? And which side of "either this gets talked about or it doesn't" do you really want to be on?
I realize that I'm making something of an assumption here, but what your post reads like to me is that you just want to be able to dance around without thinking about things that make you uncomfortable, and not everyone can really do that. Nor do I think we should.
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