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February 18, 2008

Did Grammy Organizers Pull the Plug on Michael?
Posted by ExtraTV Staff on February 18, 2008 1:16 PM


It’s the 25th anniversary Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” one of the best-selling pop records of all time, so why wasn’t he in the spotlight at the Grammys?

According to the New York Post, Jackson was in fact scheduled to appear at the Grammys, but his demands were larger than their budget.

He reportedly requested that someone specially introduce him, honor him with a never-before-received award and refer to him as being The King of Pop multiple times over.
According to the story, the music board finally decided to pull the plug on his appearance after they couldn’t appease him.

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THERE WERE 9 COMMENTS ON EXTRATV.COM, (the link above) I didn't leave one.

True or False? This probably has been discussed already.


I just saw this on Extra an hour ago. It shows at 1:05am here and I thought it may have been posted here already.

 
Hopefully this is not true. Id rather ppl just call MJ the King of Pop without him asking them to do so. It's like Kobe Bryant telling everyone to say he is the best player in the NBA. That doesn't look right.
 
Uh... this sounds like some rehash of an 80s tabloid story. Michael never did request anyone to call him anything, point blank. So this story is bull. Anyone who believes it, too bad for them.

The Grammys pulled the plug because Michael decided against appearing on their lame telecast, I think that's pretty obvious. They've got no insentive to give him a tribute if he wasn't willing to give them ratings.
 
This is so untrue!they are laying !He isn't wanting that things! Especially THE KING OF POP - EVERYBODY KNOWS IS TRUE! THIS IS TABLOID!
 
They never get tired of it,do they?

Wow.

They can't call him a pedophile no more, so they try to make him look like a self obsessed idiot.
 
This is a bunch of bull crap_
reportedly he requested
they have no source for that info and its ridicules

Whats is a never before received award _ :LOL:
Michaels recieved tham all anyway ..
everyone knows you just cant request a made up award from the grammy's (sheesh)

"honor him with a never-before-received award and refer to him as being The King of Pop multiple times over."
 
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I think there's probably a kernel of truth in the story, based on what actually happened. The Grammys must have thought that MJ was coming up until the last minute, otherwise they wouldn't have advertised the Thriller tribute and pulled it like that. I'm sure it's very exaggerated, as most tabloid stories are, but probably not entirely untrue.

With regards to the whole "king of pop" thing, I honestly think that did come from MJ's camp. It all started on MTV, who all of a sudden started referring to MJ as the KOP. Reports came from MTV insiders that MJ's camp had demanded it and I can see no possible reason for it happening otherwise, just like that. It's not like it was a gradual thing. I don't know why fans are so bothered by this. It's just a marketing ploy and probably originated with the record label, as did the 20 ft statue on the Thames.
 
*yawn* same old tabloid B.S so 80's according to "those" in the know mj had a panic attack. mj was being called the KOP long b4 MTV got a foothold in the market place
 
JudgingNoone said:
I think there's probably a kernel of truth in the story, based on what actually happened. The Grammys must have thought that MJ was coming up until the last minute, otherwise they wouldn't have advertised the Thriller tribute and pulled it like that. I'm sure it's very exaggerated, as most tabloid stories are, but probably not entirely untrue.

With regards to the whole "king of pop" thing, I honestly think that did come from MJ's camp. It all started on MTV, who all of a sudden started referring to MJ as the KOP. Reports came from MTV insiders that MJ's camp had demanded it and I can see no possible reason for it happening otherwise, just like that. It's not like it was a gradual thing. I don't know why fans are so bothered by this. It's just a marketing ploy and probably originated with the record label, as did the 20 ft statue on the Thames.
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Michael jackson does not need a title KOP. He is a real king. Was crowned in Africa. And unless one thinks that the crowning of British kings are more valid than the crowning of an African King, MJ was crowned king in Africa. May I also add thatmuch of the crowning that goes on on the british thrown was taken right out of Africa. Same as the inauguration of the American president. Taken from African tradition. Yes, MJ was crowned King in Africa. He is a real king, and can insist on his title if he so wishes, Paul McCartney got a simple tap on his shoulder by the queen and is now called Sir. MJ had over 125 000 africans present to witness his crowning. He doesn't need a pop title that they keep saying he created for himself, yet they keep on giving it tosomebody else. If he created it foe himself, why dothey want to take it from him and give it to Justin Timberlake.:mello:
MJ WAS crowned King in AFRICA, He is a king. Here is the evidence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qcws1BpAA0&feature=related
 
JudgingNoone said:
I think there's probably a kernel of truth in the story, based on what actually happened. The Grammys must have thought that MJ was coming up until the last minute, otherwise they wouldn't have advertised the Thriller tribute and pulled it like that. I'm sure it's very exaggerated, as most tabloid stories are, but probably not entirely untrue.

With regards to the whole "king of pop" thing, I honestly think that did come from MJ's camp. It all started on MTV, who all of a sudden started referring to MJ as the KOP. Reports came from MTV insiders that MJ's camp had demanded it and I can see no possible reason for it happening otherwise, just like that. It's not like it was a gradual thing. I don't know why fans are so bothered by this. It's just a marketing ploy and probably originated with the record label, as did the 20 ft statue on the Thames.
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Michael didn't come up with that, its a total myth. They were calling Michael all sorts of names and titles long before MTV claimed their utter bull sh*t, like Prince of Pop, Pied Piper of Pop, etc... King of Pop ain't exactly a stretch. And it's true, Elizabeth Taylor called him the King of Pop, Rock and Soul before MTV ever started calling him the King of Pop and it caught on from there.

And besides that, if Michael is the "self-proclaimed King of Pop", as the media so likes to claim, then it really isn't their title to take and give to someone else, yet they constantly attempt to do so anyway, don't they?
 
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Datsymay said:
This story originated from the NYP and was removed to the tabloid section. where it belongs.
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:yes: Cindy Adams...NYPost...Enough said.

JudgingNoone said:
With regards to the whole "king of pop" thing, I honestly think that did come from MJ's camp. It all started on MTV, who all of a sudden started referring to MJ as the KOP. Reports came from MTV insiders that MJ's camp had demanded it and I can see no possible reason for it happening otherwise, just like that. It's not like it was a gradual thing. I don't know why fans are so bothered by this. It's just a marketing ploy and probably originated with the record label, as did the 20 ft statue on the Thames.
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That is not true at all. The term "King of Pop" as it relates to Michael (the phrase was used much earlier in reference to other artists and contests around the world) originated from the media itself in 1984; from when Michael was nominated for so many Grammy awards etc. and ended up taking home eight of them. After being nominated (but before the actual event) the press was already calling him the "King of Records" based both on awards won for his pop album/singles and for the record number of albums sold. The night that he won eight Grammys, editors immediately declared him the "King of Pop Music" (then shortened to "King of Pop") in the headlines, simply because that is what he was based on awards and sales. Several months later, other editors also called him the "King of Rock and Soul" and in '89 Elizabeth Taylor introduced him as: "in my estimation, the true King of Pop, Rock and Soul..." But even Ms. Taylor was far from the first to come up with the nickname, although that is where Michael and many others attribute the title to. It was the press that started it on their own years before. It wasn't until 1991 that rumors were spread claiming that Michael demanded that the networks routinely call him the King of Pop in exchange for the viewing rights for "Black or White".
 
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MJ must have been VERY powerful to be making these demands on such powerful media people. MJ nust own these people. Or is it that MJ had something they wanted, like ratings that no other popstar can generate. A cheap award handed over to mj is worth very little in comparison to the amount of ,money they make off this man. He saved the music industry TWICE and they WANT HIM BACK to save it again. They should create a special award for him only. Every popstar out there owes him and they know it. The media hates him so much yet they fawn over his posible attendance at a grammy award show., They are just angry that the lying story they wrote before hand was useless because he wasn't there.
 
He wouldnt have had to demand that the Grammy's introduce him as
KOP or call him KOP - that is a given -They would have done that anyway
everyone calls him that becuase HE IS THE KOP - The ONLY KOP -

so the story is ridicules ....
 
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That is not true at all. The term "King of Pop" as it relates to Michael (the phrase was used much earlier in reference to other artists and contests around the world) originated from the media itself in 1984; from when Michael was nominated for so many Grammy awards etc. and ended up taking home eight of them. After being nominated (but before the actual event) the press was already calling him the "King of Records" based both on awards won for his pop album/singles and for the record number of albums sold. The night that he won eight Grammys, editors immediately declared him the "King of Pop Music" (then shortened to "King of Pop") in the headlines, simply because that is what he was based on awards and sales. Several months later, other editors also called him the "King of Rock and Soul" and in '89 Elizabeth Taylor introduced him as: "in my estimation, the true King of Pop, Rock and Soul..." But even Ms. Taylor was far from the first to come up with the nickname, although that is where Michael and many others attribute the title to. It was the press that started it on their own years before. It wasn't until 1991 that rumors were spread claiming that Michael demanded that the networks routinely call him the King of Pop in exchange for the viewing rights for "Black or White".
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exactly.the media created the monster so to speak and now they want to turn it around and use it against mj. not to mention all the kop banner s created by fans during the bad tour

Cindy Adams...NYPost...Enough said.
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yeap. heck why are we even discussing this crap lol
 
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TSCM said:
:yes: Cindy Adams...NYPost...Enough said.


That is not true at all. The term "King of Pop" as it relates to Michael (the phrase was used much earlier in reference to other artists and contests around the world) originated from the media itself in 1984; from when Michael was nominated for so many Grammy awards etc. and ended up taking home eight of them. After being nominated (but before the actual event) the press was already calling him the "King of Records" based both on awards won for his pop album/singles and for the record number of albums sold. The night that he won eight Grammys, editors immediately declared him the "King of Pop Music" (then shortened to "King of Pop") in the headlines, simply because that is what he was based on awards and sales. Several months later, other editors also called him the "King of Rock and Soul" and in '89 Elizabeth Taylor introduced him as: "in my estimation, the true King of Pop, Rock and Soul..." But even Ms. Taylor was far from the first to come up with the nickname, although that is where Michael and many others attribute the title to. It was the press that started it on their own years before. It wasn't until 1991 that rumors were spread claiming that Michael demanded that the networks routinely call him the King of Pop in exchange for the viewing rights for "Black or White".
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Thank you.
 
Cindy Adams, New York Post. LOL! Give Me A Break!

There have been so many Grammy rumors, I have lost count. And the funny thing about all of these rumors, is that none of them match up.

They all "claim" that the rumors come from Grammy insiders, yet each "insider" has told a different story.

I also think it funny that these folks are still talking about Michael not being there. The Grammy's are a done deal, yet the Michael Jackson Grammy related talk continues. LOL! Seems like at this point, they would be talking about folks who actually attended the event.
 
if tabloid... why is still here... Iknow I'm not a mod... but still...
 
Datsymay said:
Michael jackson does not need a title KOP. He is a real king. Was crowned in Africa. And unless one thinks that the crowning of British kings are more valid than the crowning of an African King, MJ was crowned king in Africa. May I also add thatmuch of the crowning that goes on on the british thrown was taken right out of Africa. Same as the inauguration of the American president. Taken from African tradition. Yes, MJ was crowned King in Africa. He is a real king, and can insist on his title if he so wishes, Paul McCartney got a simple tap on his shoulder by the queen and is now called Sir. MJ had over 125 000 africans present to witness his crowning. He doesn't need a pop title that they keep saying he created for himself, yet they keep on giving it tosomebody else. If he created it foe himself, why dothey want to take it from him and give it to Justin Timberlake.:mello:
MJ WAS crowned King in AFRICA, He is a king. Here is the evidence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qcws1BpAA0&feature=related
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exactly, he is the real crowned King!
 
Big Apple2 said:
Cindy Adams, New York Post. LOL! Give Me A Break!

There have been so many Grammy rumors, I have lost count. And the funny thing about all of these rumors, is that none of them match up.

They all "claim" that the rumors come from Grammy insiders, yet each "insider" has told a different story.

I also think it funny that these folks are still talking about Michael not being there. The Grammy's are a done deal, yet the Michael Jackson Grammy related talk continues. LOL! Seems like at this point, they would be talking about folks who actually attended the event.
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Isn't it something. The place was packed woth stars yet they are writing about the one that wasn't there. Something tells me that they are looking for an excuse to cover the reason why they didn't mention the biggest star in the world. I think they have egg on their face. I have a feeling that they made unreasonable demand on MJ and he told them to get lost.:)Mj aint taking any sh't no more.
 
TSCM said:
:yes: Cindy Adams...NYPost...Enough said.


That is not true at all. The term "King of Pop" as it relates to Michael (the phrase was used much earlier in reference to other artists and contests around the world) originated from the media itself in 1984; from when Michael was nominated for so many Grammy awards etc. and ended up taking home eight of them. After being nominated (but before the actual event) the press was already calling him the "King of Records" based both on awards won for his pop album/singles and for the record number of albums sold. The night that he won eight Grammys, editors immediately declared him the "King of Pop Music" (then shortened to "King of Pop") in the headlines, simply because that is what he was based on awards and sales. Several months later, other editors also called him the "King of Rock and Soul" and in '89 Elizabeth Taylor introduced him as: "in my estimation, the true King of Pop, Rock and Soul..." But even Ms. Taylor was far from the first to come up with the nickname, although that is where Michael and many others attribute the title to. It was the press that started it on their own years before. It wasn't until 1991 that rumors were spread claiming that Michael demanded that the networks routinely call him the King of Pop in exchange for the viewing rights for "Black or White".
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I became a fan in 1983 and a super fanatic in 1987 and I can honestly say that I can't recall ever hearing or seeing Michael referred to as the King of Pop in those days. You are usually very well informed, so I'm not going to argue when you say that it happened.

I'm not saying that MJ or his camp invented the title, but I do think it's too much of a coincidence that MTV habitually started referring to him as the KOP simultaneously with rumours spreading that his camp had made that demand. Either way, I don't think it's an outrageous demand, if indeed his camp did make it. He deserved the title.
 
qbee said:
He wouldnt have had to demand that the Grammy's introduce him as
KOP or call him KOP - that is a given -They would have done that anyway
everyone calls him that becuase HE IS THE KOP - The ONLY KOP -

so the story is ridicules ....
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Exactly. This is exagerated crap garnished for the taboids from the tabloids.

Michael (as far as we've just seen him) has become so humble in the last few years, he simply wants recognition for his work, and simple thank you not some large lavish production.

The tabloids really need to give it up. Until we know the true story, they should stop printing garbage thinking that it will generate more sales. I can't see Michael being as demanding as they say. And please, having them repeat the name "King Of Pop?" Is that the best they can do?

There may be some truth to the story, yet it sounds like pure exageration to me. Who knows, maybe Michael agreed with them to do something and then they changed it at the last minute or something got
changed on them for some reason.

But; if they can give Amy Whinehouse a grammy, then they could have at least recognized Michael's achievements in some capacity.

Rediculous. -_-
 
The Grammy's have been done. Why are they still talking about MJ not being there? why don't they talk about the stars that were there like Tina and Beyonce of Alicia with Frank??
 
Not to be arrogent, yet I think a lot of people were expecting Michael to be there....kind of like it's a given, that Thriller will be once again be recognized....well you know what I mean given the full recognition that it deserves.

Also, it was advertized so much, some had their hopes up. Plus, the taboilds have nothing better to do so this will give them something to write about.....esspecially if it isn't true. :rolleyes:


 
jaydom7 said:
The Grammy's have been done. Why are they still talking about MJ not being there? why don't they talk about the stars that were there like Tina and Beyonce of Alicia with Frank??
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Because they were ALL hoping and praying that Mike would show up. There were NO big performances being talked about. Like I said before, they NEEDED Michael to help bring them back to their former glory. They needed to give folks something BIG to look forward to.

I mean, when was the last time ANY of us were excited about the Grammys? The ratings speak for themselves, the Grammy's needed a GIANT boost this year and Michael Jackson would have given it to them, in my opinion.

Remember last year, they had that "American Idol" type contest. All of that trouble, for nothing. LOL!
 
Big Apple2 said:
Because they were ALL hoping and praying that Mike would show up. There were NO big performances being talked about. Like I said before, they NEEDED Michael to help bring them back to their former glory. They needed to give folks something BIG to look forward to.

I mean, when was the last time ANY of us were excited about the Grammys? The ratings speak for themselves, the Grammy's needed a GIANT boost this year and Michael Jackson would have given it to them, in my opinion.

Remember last year, they had that "American Idol" type contest. All of that trouble, for nothing. LOL!
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True. I have no doubt that they did try to bribe MJ to get him out. Only MJ would have made the grammy's memorable. Look what he did to the Motown 25. Everybody still talk about it to this day because of MJ.
People still talk about Ed Sulivan show because of MJ. I had never seen those shows, but I come to know about them because MJ appeared on them.
Nobody would still be talking about Motown 25 to this day. Nobody remembers who else were on that show, I believe these people in show business KNOW that only MJ can pull a crowd like no other, but they need to treat him right if they want him on their show.
The grammy's not mentioning MJ on their show may very well seal their doom for the future.:)
 
This story has to be here for at least some time so newcomer fans could one in lifetime have opportunity to hear some facts over the rumors.

And, to be clear, Michael never requested MTV anything back in 1991 (like calling him KOP or something), producers directly denied it (sorry no link).
 
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the new york post is the bullcrappiest tabloid paper in NYC.
don't believe a damn thing in it.

you notice how none of this info can be found anywhere else right?
because it's all lies that's why
 
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