@JamesSurowiecki Apparently the band refused to play any song not by published by Motown so they just played the single.
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Vin Von Voom
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Bizarre that Michael Jackson was lip synching this song.
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When Michael Jackson debuted the moonwalk while performing "Billie Jean" at Motown 25 (1983)
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@joe_kopsick @alicemoodyy I mean it is weird that so many people who are outraged about the Michael movie defend the Elvis one though.
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@alicemoodyy Person A can't be a pedophile because Person B is a pedophile!
Yes, this planet is fucking awful
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Lex Luthor: omg you HAVE to try this ice cream Superman
Monique Santificer@MoniqueMonsters
pretty sure icecream ain't supposed to be like that.
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@MaxFromQuebec Totally. The movie is actually too accurate to the facts of his life. There's no room to have a story there. Probably had something to do with his family being apart of it.
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The thing is, even if you choose to deliberately ignore the back half of MJ's life, a movie on the singer's early days should be a slam dunk. There's so much to talk about. The fact that MICHAEL refuses to even say *something* meaningful about *any of it* is utterly baffling.
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@GraceOnFootball Well the Elvis movie came out not too long ago so I feel like it shouldn't be too shocking.
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this film being a hit feels like one of the more morally repugnant cultural moments of my lifetime
Variety@Variety
#Michael is aiming to set the record for biggest music biopic opening weekend with a $70 million-plus debut. Some exhibitors are predicting the final number will be closer to $80 million, far above 2018’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” ($51 million) and 2015’s “Straight Outta Compton” ($60 million, the current record holder). “Michael” is expected to be even bigger internationally. It’s projected to earn $75 million to $80 million from 82 markets. Globally, the film should end up with a stellar $140 million to $150 million (or more) by Sunday. variety.com/2026/film/box-…
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@lobol348674 @Mikemccarthaaay That's a valid interpretation but the edit makes that not up to interpretation at all and the only conclusion. There's no reason to be mad at people for wanting to be factual.
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@ArchieSmash @Mikemccarthaaay You stupid fuck HE WAS TELLING THE KIDS THAT TO GUILT THEM SO THAT THEY WOULD SLEEP IN THE BED WITH HIM. It's not important context, it literally just makes his case look even worse.
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@piperocktheory Jerry Lee Lewis had all his records pulled from stores when he did the same thing. Literally no reason to be defending pedophilia here.
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@ArchieSmash I mean duh but I don’t think 1959 society had the benefit of 2026 hindsight
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it is certainly weird now but I don’t think a 60s Southerner marrying a teenager under the supervision of her parents is equivalent to raping dozens of children over the course of decades
Elvis also had a Madonna-whore complex where he would refuse to fuck to keep girls ‘pure’
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@elladorn_ Can a Madonna fan explain to me what the hell innocuous explanation there is for this? Like I don't even know how you could possibly even come up with an argument that she wasn't a pedophile from this.
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I recommend this book. Taraborrelli is actually neutral-to-positive about him and sceptical about the accusations but the content both freaked me out and made me a devoted hater. It's the most Dickensian thing you'll read outside of Dickens
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@cinemattie I've seen more people call the fans an estate paid conspiracy than I've seen the fans call people who think he's guilty part of some conspiracy they just call you racist.
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I feel like it would be a lot easier to take fans of a certain pop star with a new biopic coming out seriously if they just said they still like his music instead of dismissing the allegations and painting anyone who feels queasy about it as part of some conspiracy.
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@Duscborne @jasminpigemoji What do you think about James Brown and prince's use of wigs like that? Do you think they are race traitors as well?
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@jasminpigemoji The choice of wig is what really takes me out when you think about the excuses they give.
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@XONSG1 People didn't forget that he was weird they just recognise the public perception of him as reactionary and unfactual.
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Everyone forgot that michael jackson used to be of the most mocked people on the planet post-allegations, even Robin Williams pinched on it
Kar@karlogan_
Chris Rock in 2004 btw
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@pcd2009 Can we use some basic common sense here?
What makes more sense, Michael Jackson created a grand conspiracy to make himself look bad or tabloid media made salacious stories about the most famous person in the world to sell tabloids?
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the thing about the obsession the jacksons have with calling out the "media" is that michael and his team were more than happy to play the game, planting stories about himself in the very tabloids he'd cry about as a way of getting attention and adding to the mystique around him:
The Hollywood Reporter@THR
Michael Jackson's Relative Calls Out Media as Biopic Opens: "You Don't Get to Control the Narrative Anymore" hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…
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@Sturgeons_Law Sort of like that one Gervais bit about Nietzsche being confounded by Hitler's antisemitism. If you know how antisemitic Nietzsche actually was it doesn't really hit the same.
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@Sturgeons_Law Joke is kind of ruined when you watch the interview and see it's basically completely inaccurate.
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Key ancient text, but this clip ends before the funniest part (IMO).
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Chris Rock in 2004 btw
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@PetreRaleigh You could argue the same about Kurt Cobain's death. Very strange it's such a safe joke to make. No other suicide save Hitler's is an acceptable punchline.
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One thing about allegations like Jackson's is that even people who believe them don't look into them closely. They're absorbed as components of the man's reputation but people don't subject themselves to the details; they become cultural punchlines and thus easier to ignore
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@boomharry1 @TomCafeConLeche That's half of why people think he's guilty I feel like. It seems pretty clear from the evidence that he's innocent of at least the crimes he's been accused of but his fans are so dogmatically terrible at defending him it makes it very easy to disagree with them.
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@TomCafeConLeche I think it's also partially because Michael Jackson fans are like deeply in denial that he was one to a really weird degree.
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@CyborgMedia @macanaria29 As you can see women are more open to trans rights on every issue than men. This has historically been the case, with lesbian women having the most positive view of trans people in 2023.
yougov.com/en-gb/articles…
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@CyborgMedia @macanaria29 It's a differently mapped out version of the data here. Not sure why it's only among young adults but that's the latest large scale study when it comes to trans people that specifies gender.
yougov.com/en-gb/articles…
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@ArchieSmash I'll reply here cause @macanaria29 doesn't believe in freedom of speech.
Nice chart. I tried to find that in the Yougov site but found nothing. Do you have the link?
Also, what does GB mean in the "sample size"?
Why only asked people between 18 and 27? Why not
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@USARice000 @HighFuncGaming @ezzyskii Could you show a clip or an image because nothing in that game I can find online is like what you're describing.
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You know people don’t like to admit this but older cartoons they grew up with were woke and discussed social issues like this and were very on the nose about it
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Johnny Bravo is turned into a woman by a disgruntled fortuneteller in order to show him what it truly means to be a woman.
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