A celebratory post on the 40th anniversary of the “Off the Wall” album had to get in a barb about the terrible things fame can do to an artist. (As I said, it makes me want to SCREAM!)Įven things that seem to be positive tend to cast some doubt on Jackson’s character. So much flip-flopping – it makes me want to SCREAM! Oh, wait she has some new music to promote – and what better way to guarantee broad coverage than invoke Michael Jackson’s name in the context of the faux scenarios of Leaving Neverland in order to be relevant. Then we had a former backing singer commenting negatively on the time she toured with the King of Pop – despite having gone on record with positive comments about him in the past. Within short succession and in no particular order, we had Jackson’s ex-wife signing a big book deal which the headlines screamed would be a tell-all tome on their marriage (despite no official statement on the subject being forthcoming) a disgraced former employee cropping up with new outrageous tales about Jackson’s sex life, and being accepted (again) as a credible source by media that obviously don’t do research or don’t give a f*ck. But the public probably thinks it does, no doubt believing some kind of fair assessment of the content is involved in the selection of nominees. An Emmy does not guarantee that a winner, much less a nominee, has integrity. Said “documentary” was being positioned for salvation from its debunked narrative by virtue of an Emmy award or two. I’d even become used to avoiding the news, at the risk of missing something important that I should really know about – like the end of civilisation as we know it because of a killer asteroid heading our way, or something else equally catastrophic!īut this week the Michael Jackson online fan community was running hot and angry on social media because of new stories surfacing that seemed to support the faux documentary Leaving Neverland. The week started like any other, but as it progressed, my blood pressure threatened to blow sky-high! As a fan of Michael Jackson, I had become used to seeing accusatory headlines from various sources crop up on my internet news feed.
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