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

[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.