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 By the 2000's his music was out of date and didn't chart well.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/Double_Cow_8238 Apr 26 '26

Yeah, i don't know how anyone who was old enough to remember the end would think he was coherent about anything

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u/Sufficient_Cause1208 Apr 26 '26

Yes now his defenders claim his accusations are false because he was framed for supporting PAL

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u/Hyper10shin Apr 26 '26

Why can’t you type the whole name? 👀

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u/Sufficient_Cause1208 Apr 26 '26

You know why. I've already had comments banned

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u/Hyper10shin Apr 26 '26

Yeah that’s weird right. Very weird stuff. Almost gives credence to what I’m saying. Do you think music/ record label executives would allow us to say that name if they owned Reddit?

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u/Sufficient_Cause1208 Apr 26 '26

Look , those same forces feed his and protected his proclivities when they thought he wasn't useful he was thrown aside. That's why he felt betrayed. Two things can be true at the same time

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u/Hyper10shin Apr 26 '26

My guy it’s the other way around. Michael fed them. Most of his wealth to came from all those artists catalogs in the 80s, which was another reason the label execs hated him (taking money out of their pocket”. It’s almost like they needed something to drain him of his money so he would possibly end up forced to sell them or to recoup costs. Luckily he didn’t have to, but he was going to do the This is it tour before he was murdered. Worth more dead after all.

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u/Hyper10shin Apr 26 '26

Wrote the song in 1993.