“Great ‘YouTube’ clips you’ve posted, Psychoniff. You make quite a number of excellent points with them, here. There are many different people shown in them, with each person having his/her own personal point of view in regards to Michael, and attitude towards him.
Of course, the one person who absolutely qualifies as a total, complete snob* is the radio commentator from Boston, David Brudnoy. (*And, I would have loved to have used much stronger language than the word, ‘snob,’ to describe such people with their uppity attitudes, who tend to look down their noses at certain Black performers, anyway, in my view. Psychoniff, if you can come up with an even better word than ‘snob,’ one that truly expresses what we both really think of them, please post it.) His tone of voice is so doggone condescending and exasperated that he could never have imagined, for the life of him, that any people who sang ‘Pop,’ ‘Rock-and-Roll’ or ‘R&B/Soul’ music, for example, could not exist in their careers without ever getting themselves involved in some kind of trouble or another, without a history of scandal, personal problems and other severely damaging issues in their lives.
I do like that the Video showed one young man making his positive comments on Michael, immediately after the Brudnoy put-down segment calling Michael’s clean-living Early-1980’s lifestyle (such as it had been, at that point) a ‘con-job’ and ‘calculated.’ What would David Brudnoy and others like him, who all had the same negative attitude towards Michael and who held similar views of his career and lifestyle - just a brief time-period before the height of ‘Thriller’s’ unprecedented success, and shortly following it thereafter - have thought of Michael during the last 15 to more than 20 years of his life, from his post-‘BAD’ era* onwards? (*Or, should I call it the ‘pre-“Dangerous” era’? I’m not sure....) How would he have reacted to the way Michael’s life had, eventually, turned out in the ’90’s, from that time ever since then? I’d like to know what your honest, truthful answer is. It could be very interesting.”