I guess I need to say this one more time, since it seems like people keep saying retarded shit about MJ.
Can we just put all of the negative stuff aside and remember the man for the enormous contributions he made to the world of music? He made, without question, some of the greatest music that's ever been made. He revolutionized and perfected the art of music videos, and also was just an all around great performer and put on one hell of an incredible stage show. And above all, he loved and appreciated his fans, which is saying something considering he was the most famous man in the world. Many artists MUCH MUCH MUCH smaller than him don't give a flying fuck about their fans and treat them like shit. So let's just remember the man for the good things. It's the least we owe him.
Can we just put all of the negative stuff aside and remember the man for the enormous contributions he made to the world of music? He made, without question, some of the greatest music that's ever been made. He revolutionized and perfected the art of music videos, and also was just an all around great performer and put on one hell of an incredible stage show. And above all, he loved and appreciated his fans, which is saying something considering he was the most famous man in the world. Many artists MUCH MUCH MUCH smaller than him don't give a flying fuck about their fans and treat them like shit. So let's just remember the man for the good things. It's the least we owe him.
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And I am basing my opinion of him on all the same things everyone else does, all the media I have been exposed to regarding him including his own positions and statements (that I am aware of/remember), I have just come to a different conclusion than you.
Like I said, nothing about him ever made me think or feel he was a genuine, honest, caring, believable individual. And I felt this way when I was a child, and children don't lie to themselves about what they think and feel.
What evidence do you have that he really did "love his fans"?
It seems to me that in order to be as successful and popular as he was, meaning, he made lots of money, he made things people wanted to buy, you'd have to be kind of savvy and business-minded and calculating and maybe, maybe, manipulative.
As in, "Ah, if I do this, then I can make people spend money because maybe some of them will like it and then I will have that money."
And that doesn't fit with the all-loving-unnatural-innocence-bit. Unless he was an idiot-savant. In which case someone would have noticed and he wouldn't have done all sorts of other things he did.
Especially when you also consider some of the stuff that did come out about him, including how he treated his own children, including the extravagance in which he chose to live, etc, etc.
Would you ever put your child in danger the way he did his when he held that baby out over that balcony?
What evidence are you basing your opinions on?
You shouldn't absolve someone of responsibility, morality, honesty, good judgment, all those things, just because you and some other people liked some music.
So, song lyrics about world peace and some popularity or sketchy legal settlements, videos of very very bad parenting choices, and numerous verifiable reports of things (the monkey, the amusement park, the zoo, the extreme body modification, the little boy sleep-overs regardless of proof of actual abuse, add it up.) that would make anyone with any common sense question his mental stability?
So, that's what I'm basing my poor opinion of him as an individual on.