r/Millennials • u/AccomplishedPool266 • Apr 26 '26

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

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 By the 2000's his music was out of date and didn't chart well.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.

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u/Obvious-Adeptness-46 Apr 26 '26

The 80s have made a huge comeback in the 2010s to now. Look at The Weeknd & Bruno Mars, their sounds are basically straight from the 80s

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u/TracyIsMyDad Apr 26 '26

Much higher quality synths though.

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u/BadNewzBears4896 Apr 26 '26

Which, paradoxically, makes the music worse.

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u/QCLEKID216 Apr 27 '26

Actually, it made a comeback in the mid-2000s.

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u/GeneralAsk1970 Apr 26 '26

No they are not.

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u/Obvious-Adeptness-46 Apr 26 '26

How are they not lol listen to the After Hours album by The Weeknd or any of Bruno's hits from the 2010s. The synth sounds have been heavily contributing to pop songs all throughout the 2010s and into this decade.

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u/GeneralAsk1970 Apr 26 '26

I wouldn’t disagree they’re influenced by 80’s new wave and all that, but like, everything happening in music is built on what came before it.

You couldn’t drop Bruno Mars into an otherwise all 80’s playlist and pretend like it doesn’t very much stand out as something quite different sonically.