Michael Jackson's music has made me and millions of others happy over decades; indeed, over half a century. Whatever else is or isn't true, I know for a fact I will be poorer for not hearing his music.
But apart from my bias, some questions:
How is this new phenomenon of retrospective 'catalogue cleansing' to be administered?
With or without criminal conviction?
Based on what type of crime and determined by whom?
Forever? For how long?
Before or only after the offending occurred?
And what about associated composers and musicians who will suffer from royalty loss? Will they be compensated?
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Regardless of how good it may be, it would be a brave person who defended the merits of Michael Jackson's music in today's rabid realm of the politically correct.
As the years flowed by and the world watched as Michael Jackson evolved into a parody of the medieval freak show he became, the vampires of the music world kept working the angles to ensure their money teat kept flowing.
The doctors who played Frankenstein with Michael their monster, do they deserve to be called men of medicine?
20 years later those who knew what was happening,now express shock and horror and appear to be cashing in on the big bucks today's outrage may yet generate and give them a footing on some sort of moral high ground.
With the removal of Jackson's music from mainstream playlists,how long before we witness mass burnings of his music as the righteous dance in a celebration denouncing their Devil.
I have never been a fan of Jackson's music, but now that its "Persona Non Grata' I might just give it another spin on the turntable. Perhaps while I was preoccupied with Dylan and Johnny Cash I missed something important?
It doesn't matter how 'famous' a person is, once a sexual assault allegation is made people react exactly the same way.
The Pamapuria School deputy principle. Despite repeated warnings (even from the Police) people refused to believe he was a vile pedophile. One person from the area in a TV interview sad she couldn't believe it, he was always with the children. This case reads strangely like Jackson...
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northland-age/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503402&objectid=11073150
The problem of pedophile priests... denied, hushed, covered up... Still that;s easier when you get to absolve yourself and abdicate personal responsibility.
From Gary Glitter to Rolf Harris
Cardinal George Pell had an impressive line up of dignitaries sticking up for him too, including former PM Howard.
The very FIRST thing that happens when an accusation is made is the victims are discredited.
I wasn't there, but neither were you.
Normal adult men don't sleep with young children, no matter how much they pretend they are reliving their own childhood.
It surprises me that you haven't understood or addressed the point of my post.
I wasn't defending Jackson's (still alleged) actions.
I asked how will music playlists be decided in the future and by whom? Because banning Jackson is really the beginning of (coincidentally) a very slippery slope.
It's all a bit late isn't it?
Really where was the disapproval when it might have made a difference in preventing harm to another?
https://thespinoff.co.nz/tv/11-03-2019/how-do-we-reckon-with-michael-jackson-in-the-wake-of-leaving-neverland/?fbclid=IwAR3nJ1Avjcj0TJh7h-a4jt309LV9Y39wkPemNxfBmB4l3JOqbudN19rZOBA
Yeah, I have no issue leaving the alleged off the accusations against MJ.
I certainly understood the point of your post.
No one is stopping you from putting your MJ records on and enjoying them, if you can.
Who decides what is played on radio? I think that decision is up to the private businesses, which all commercial radio station in NZ are.
It surprises me you'd want a say over private business.
;-)
As a customer, of course I 'want a say over' private business, if that's what expressing an opinion and asking questions is. It doesn't follow I want them controlled by the state.
Censure-ship is an insidious and dangerous thing.
It is filtering in to everything. Google, facebook, laws of otherwise decent countries. eg the English laws about hate speech.
Now some self righteous self appointed guardians of something decide to cull MJs music.
Just get out of our lives.
At a personal level we can decide to listen or not.
We dont need an orwellian state busibody getting involved.
Personally I separate the art from the artist.
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