Michael Jackson - can you listen without feeling a bit "noncey"?

[Duty]

Listened to "Dangerous" for the first time the other week - some great tracks, I say. I also own a copy of "Bad" on CD and have rinsed that much. Me? I say do not criticise the building because of the unrelated sins of the builder...and in any case, the US justice system never charged him with anything, right? Or is money a free pass in the states and that is that - even for paedophilia? How dark can we go...we shall see.

[Aegon]

To be fair the justice system did try very hard to convict him. Their witnesses (children) refused to testify against him. Last year, however, they came out and said he did do what he was accused of and they regretted not testifying then.

However - he's dead. So it doesn't really matter, does it?

[Duty]

His music and legacy lives on. Perhaps his "victims" upon reaching adulthood decided they should try to skin mj for every dollar they could, just like their parents had, in dog eat dog neo-liberal individualistic kill kill kill USA (something of a parody, granted).

[Apollo]

To me Michael Jackson is not a role model known for his child rearing skills but rather a musician who created great music.  You can enjoy his music and laud his talent while condemning his alleged pedophiliac side in the same breath.  But I understand people who can't do both and that's ok too.  There is no right or wrong answer. Whatever one is comfortable with.

[Rev. Rye]

I think I’ve mentioned here that one of my favorite films, Repulsion was made by an admitted ephebephile, a man who’s gone on record as having raped a 13-year-old. And, remarkably, it’s heavily implied that the film is about the traumas of a girl who suffered the same things he committed on a young girl IRL, and yet, it remains one of my all-time faves because, in spite of it all, the film maintains a level of empathy I rarely see in film, and if it’s not THE most vivid representation of what sexual assault can do to a person’s psyche on film now, it almost certainly was in 1965.

And MJ, bear in mind that in his case, the allegations are more ambiguous, and his music doesn’t really touch on the themes in anywhere near the same way Repulsion did.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I can’t listen to Michael Jackson without feeling I’d rather be listening to something else.  Nothing to do with the allegations against him, his music just isn’t to my taste.

Boru

[brewer]

I liked him on the Simpsons.

[Silver]

The glove just didn't fit.