It always seems to come back to reality and truth as it applies to 99.9% of people never applies to Michael Jackson. His not actually fathering the kids would mean that he originally had custody without the scrutiny every adoptive parent has to undergo and was under false pretenses.
He was basically divorced from any kind of community, and yet strangely the black community always seems to chase after him while he clearly didn't want to be black himself (not black and proud like James Brown at all). Just a negative mixed-up person leaving a trail of messes behind while running to neverlands and drugs. The gushing and ignorance about him should be corrected otherwise any kind of taking music at all seriously is pointless and no chat areas should be bothered with. Music being an important part of my life in many ways I want stuff corrected when it is hype and plain bull****. Same when they market the John Lennon peace guru wrapped in white suits while at the same time he was not acting that way in real life.
Michael Jackson was not anywhere near as genius and innovative as is so often claimed. He was certainly, and still is, a money magnet, but there are many more artistically important people from the same era who have produced a lot of positive real world effect (like "I'm black and I'm proud" and the money went where the mouth was on that one).
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