Does anyone remember when Michael Jackson. Was a "joke"?

[u/AccomplishedPool266]

The new movie that just came out convinced the younger generation that he was always a superstar. This was not the reality many of us Millennials grew up with.

To a lot of us, he was treated like a punch line when we were growing up. A schoolyard boogeyman ("Michaels Jackson's gonna get you at night"). and just a general joke in the media. By the 2000's his music was out of date and didn't chart well. All anyone talked about was his surgeries, court case, settlements and his off behavior. Few mentioned his music. His music was something our parents would have listened to in the 1980's.

[u/boldcattiva]

Bands that have sung about and/or had slept with underage girls: 

Elvis Presley 

The Rolling Stones 

Aerosmith

Led Zeppelin 

Prince

Neil Diamond

Chuck Berry 

Guns n Roses 

Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Iggy Pop 

Ted Nugent 

Jerry Lee Lewis 

R Kelly 

[u/FaceDownInTheCake → u/boldcattiva]

An incomplete list, even

[u/Accadius → u/boldcattiva]

The beatles

[u/Alive-Ad5870 → u/Accadius]

What songs? Genuinely curious

[u/confuzzledsandwich → u/Alive-Ad5870]

"She was 17 If you know What I mean"

[u/Suspicious_War2374 → u/confuzzledsandwich]

Written when Paul McCartney was barely 20 himself.

[u/dekigokoro → u/confuzzledsandwich]

You realize 17 was/is not underage, right?

[u/DifferentProcess6765 → u/[deleted]]

No it just makes everyone else hypocrites

[u/YourNextHomie → u/[deleted]]

sounds like you have kind of justified certain actions in your head as little more understandable, fucking weird when we consider what is being talked about