Michael Jackson: Leaving Neverland

It depends on what the stranger looks like. Some people look inherently trustworthy, and a friendly smile goes a long way. Wear a suit, and people would leave their wallet with them too while they're at it.

To be honest, I wasn't really a huge MJ fan and this documentary, well...I don't know who to believe anymore at that point. I mean MJ is dead and there are people still saying bad things about him.

Edited by Julayla64 on Mar 18th 2019 at 10:45:18 AM

Writer Mark Evanier, who almost worked on an animation project with Jackson before it was canceled, offers his opinions on the documentary.

Edited by Brandon on Mar 24th 2019 at 1:29:32 AM

Still hearing some Michael Jackson on the radio from time to time. Clearly we cannot live without him after all.

The casino I work at still has a lot of his music in its regular playlist.

It seems nothing changed.

At some point, a creator's work are just too famous and influential to be tarnished by the actions of its creator, it seems.

Well, Leaving Neverland has its detractors from what I've seen. Some people have denounced it as a one-sided piece of slander with too many holes, contradictions and lies in the testimonies to take seriously. Though the lack of change has probably less to do with that and more with a general apathy about the alleged actions of a dead guy. If LN had come out when Jackson was alive, that might have been a different story.

I think that people also care more about what the music itself means to them than what the artist did or didn't do.

People constantly listen to music while barely knowing anything about the artist at all.

I stopped hearing R. Kelly music last year. Even my casino took "I Believe I Can Fly" out of it's song line-up.

Though I guess he's simply not as iconic as MJ.

Wonder if "You Are Not Alone" will leave rotation, since R. Kelly wrote that song.

Does that really matter, though? And should it?

I don't think we should start pruning songs for failing artistic purity tests. And if we do, we may find that we would have to scrap rather more songs than we'd like.

This is a neverending story, isn't it? The accusations, them being shown to be full of holes and rinse and repeat? It feels like it's just a weird cycle that doesn't accomplish much, honestly. It's just kind of tiring at this point.

Edited by Blueace on Mar 18th 2020 at 11:18:44 AM

The problem is that the guy is dead, and we can do little else but move on at this point. Maybe the victims could sue the estate for damages, but that is about it, I think.