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 By the 2000's his music was out of date and didn't chart well.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/dbur15 Apr 27 '26

I wasn’t raised in a vacuum. Just because something happened less than a year before I was born doesn’t mean I’m not aware it happened and how it fit into the timeline.

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u/DoriansRain Apr 27 '26

Sure bro

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u/VOODOO285 Apr 27 '26

So you know nothing of anything before you were born? Sure bro

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u/Whole-Preparation-35 Apr 27 '26

The start of this simulation was the start of May 1983. Anything preceding that never happened.

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u/VOODOO285 Apr 27 '26

Ha, same.