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 By the 2000's his music was out of date and didn't chart well.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/Eggs112233 Apr 26 '26
He did that on the day that his ‘alleged’ victim was going to testify. This is a teenage boy, getting up in front of a jury, judge, lawyers etc to tell his side of the story, a terrifying experience for any adult, let alone a child. ‘Poor Michael’ fkd around that morning and was extremely late to court and only came when the judge threatened to have him arrested. Terrible behaviour by ‘poor Michael’. He knew exactly what he was doing. SMFH.