What would history be like if evan chandler never blackmailed and accused Michael?

[MsAshley]

There is a very angry and hardhitting sound to History, but I wonder if it would exist otherwise? I dont think DS would for example, but it begs the question of whether songs like Scream, This Time Around, Tabloid Junkie, Money or They Dont Care About Us would exist either. In this AU where Michael is never falsely accused by those snakes, what does History look like to you?

 

[Lilloue03]

The HIstory album would be totally different. DS wouldn't be on the CD. I think the other songs minus Money would still be on the album. For example, Tabloid Junkie was him being frustrated towards the journalists who began a vendetta against him at the end of the 80's so during the Bad Era; They don't care about us speaks about the injustice around the world. Those songs would still be on the album minus DS , This Time Around.

 

[alexbism]

I think the history album as we know it wouldn't exist without the 93 allegations. The whole album to me is his response to it.
Songs like This Time Around, Stranger In Moscow, 2Bad and DS wouldn't exist and also I believe songs like Childhood, Scream and Tabloid Junkie were a way for him to give his side of the story. Maybe he wouldn't have had the drive to do a full album and the project would have been more similar to what was planned for Decade, a compilation album with some outtakes from Bad/Dangerous, maybe They Don't Care About Us, Earth Song, Blood On the Dancefloor, Come Together and Little Suzie would have made it on the finished tracklist.

 

[Hot_Street]

(...) there would be a BotDF album without remixes instead of HIStory
Blood on the Dance Floor
Joy
Promise
Earth Song
Come Together
You Are Not Alone
Morphine
Seven Digits

+Superfly Sister
+TDCAU

What if the allegations never happened

What if the allegation(s) never happened at all? I think HIStory would look somewhat different, no T.S. (Sadly) for sure, probably would have sold better aswell. Same goes for invincible. What do you think? I’m quite curious too what the community thinks

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[R1chard]

Yeah, it would have been very, very different.

Different songs, different sound and feel and attitude.

 

[SeriousFX]

There is a very angry and hardhitting sound to History, but I wonder if it would exist otherwise? I dont think DS would for example, but it begs the question of whether songs like Scream, This Time Around, Tabloid Junkie, Money or They Dont Care About Us would exist either. In this AU where Michael is never falsely accused by those snakes, what does History look like to you?

It'd have Ghosts and Family Thing, for one. Is This Scary as a short film would've been completed much earlier.

A good chunk of the HIStory album wouldn't exist. Outside collaborators like Babyface and R. Kelly would've still contacted him, but the Janet collab (and by extension his collabs with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis) wouldn't materialize until at least the first full album since Dangerous.

HIStory would've also remained a single-disc album with 3-4 new songs under the name "Greatest Hits" and seen release in late 1993.

And lastly, it would've performed much better in the US, setting the stage for an actual fifth solo album under Epic (and likely a Christmss album since it was stipulated in their contract).

 

[MsAshley]

It'd have Ghosts and Family Thing, for one. Is This Scary as a short film would've been completed much earlier.

A good chunk of the HIStory album wouldn't exist. Outside collaborators like Babyface and R. Kelly would've still contacted him, but the Janet collab (and by extension his collabs with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis) wouldn't materialize until at least the first full album since Dangerous.

HIStory would've also remained a single-disc album with 3-4 new songs under the name "Greatest Hits" and seen release in late 1993.

And lastly, it would've performed much better in the US, setting the stage for an actual fifth solo album under Epic (and likely a Christmss album since it was stipulated in their contract).

it almost sounds like the album after dangerous wouldve been horror themed

 

[foralltime]

I think there are a handful of key life moments that would have altered the course of his musical choices. The first pain killers from the burns from the Pepsi commercial, the timing of Michael leaving his family behind and moving into his own home, the timing of starting his own family, and the 1993 allegations. To be honest, if the Chandlers didn't take advantage of him, someone else would likely have tried themselves given how close and intimate Michael was with other people and an album like HIStory would have just been moved forward to another time.

HIStory and Blood on the Dancefloor would not have been the next albums. That was more of a way for Michael to use his past hits to try and rebuild his fanbase who turned their backs on him from the first allegations, and the new songs were mostly all there to showcase his frustrations.

His next album after Dangerous would have just followed his Bad and Dangerous formula consisting of pop songs, save the world, and introspective themes. Invincible was Michael trying to get back to where he left off after Dangerous, and after the release of the One More Chance single, I think he was finally ready to move on from the 1993 allegations. That all came to an end in 2003, of course, and at that point I think we were lucky to ever see or hear from him ever again after that, and the This Is It residency in England was either to get a cash flow going or to try and restart his career again as his kids were getting older.

 

[Franello26]

I think it would've been completely different honestly, although it produced such hits like "Scream" "They Don't Care About Us", etc. Those 1993 allegations really changed the trajectory of a lot of things and at the time, the media scrutiny was relentless, harsh, and borderline bullying. HIStory was obviously a way for MJ to get out a lot of frustration from having a constant target on his back at that time, plus that Sneddon guy seemed to have a personal vendetta against him, it was almost like a witch hunt that wouldn't go away.

I agree with @foralltime that a few moments in his life really altered his career trajectory beginning with his burn incident in 1984 causing him to start taking pain meds and possibly a dependency on them. He was always a "I need to outdo my last project" perfectionistic, ambitious type of guy, so I think HIStory would've been great either way. He experimented a lot with musical genres and the "golden era" of Hip Hop was huge during the time the album was created and released, so I could've seen him do more collabs with people in the hip hop world, as he seemed to really like the genre.

 

[archonten]

In addition to some of the points made here previously, I think his film projects could have happened if it weren't for the allegations, since, for example, he was set to appear in Addams Family Values, the short film Is It Scary, and in the song Family Thing, all in 1993.

 

[SeriousFX]

In addition to some of the points made here previously, I think his film projects could have happened if it weren't for the allegations, since, for example, he was set to appear in Addams Family Values, the short film Is It Scary, and in the song Family Thing, all in 1993.

I feel he would've still been pulled out, allegations or no, since the actual reason he was removed was because of contractual disputes between Sony's Epic Records (who MJ was signed to) and PolyGram's Atlas Records (what the soundtrack was going to be released through).