KgB
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I’ve wanted to say this on more than one occasion (occasionally on MJJC, very often on YouTube, but why even bother there) but I haven’t felt like throwing the conversation off..
Does anyone else notice how screwed up the fandom can be when it comes to how we perceive and react to Michael’s image and the ways he would express himself? So many people who call ourselves superfans are so set on wanting Michael to cater to our own fantasies, insecurities, fixations.. that we make an ass of ourselves trying to jump all over people to defend him, when there was never anything wrong with how he expressed himself.
No he did not have a naturally deep voice, and that’s beautiful. He had a glorious adult male tenor voice with a wide range, and chose to use his upper register most of the time. So stop stressing the “Seeee look he had a REALLY DEEP MANLY voice, he’s a sex God”.. No he didn’t! And why should he? Have you heard his voice as a child? No, he was not an incredibly masculine person, and that makes him all the more fascinating and subversive. He’s still sexy AF! He didn’t care to try to fit that mould and if he were around today, I think he would be really excited to know that people have loosened up on the binary and different forms of expression. Stop trying to define him in ways that fit your own levels of comfort. Michael wasn’t interested in defining himself within these constraints, he wasn’t that simple, so why do we as his fans feel intent on it? We should be better educated on the toxicity of the binary, on race, sexuality and gender expression, and on what Michael himself believed to be important. Michael rebelled against these things that boxed him in his whole life, so we as fans should do the same. I hope that makes sense, would be curious to know your thoughts on all this...
Does anyone else notice how screwed up the fandom can be when it comes to how we perceive and react to Michael’s image and the ways he would express himself? So many people who call ourselves superfans are so set on wanting Michael to cater to our own fantasies, insecurities, fixations.. that we make an ass of ourselves trying to jump all over people to defend him, when there was never anything wrong with how he expressed himself.
No he did not have a naturally deep voice, and that’s beautiful. He had a glorious adult male tenor voice with a wide range, and chose to use his upper register most of the time. So stop stressing the “Seeee look he had a REALLY DEEP MANLY voice, he’s a sex God”.. No he didn’t! And why should he? Have you heard his voice as a child? No, he was not an incredibly masculine person, and that makes him all the more fascinating and subversive. He’s still sexy AF! He didn’t care to try to fit that mould and if he were around today, I think he would be really excited to know that people have loosened up on the binary and different forms of expression. Stop trying to define him in ways that fit your own levels of comfort. Michael wasn’t interested in defining himself within these constraints, he wasn’t that simple, so why do we as his fans feel intent on it? We should be better educated on the toxicity of the binary, on race, sexuality and gender expression, and on what Michael himself believed to be important. Michael rebelled against these things that boxed him in his whole life, so we as fans should do the same. I hope that makes sense, would be curious to know your thoughts on all this...