Re: Unpopular Michael Jackson Opinions?
-While I enjoy watching it, I don't think Moonwalker was that great of a film. I'd give it a like, 3/5 stars max and a solid star or two would be from the absolutely incredible music videos in it.
-I don't like the soft speaking voice at the beginning of the original version of IJCSLY and I'm really glad they cut it out for future reissues. To tell you the truth, it makes me uncomfortable (could be the fact that I'm straight and I don't find Michael attractive, perhaps).
-I think You Rock My World, while a good music video that I've watched countless times, was nothing new and essentially a rehash of what he did in the past. The intro for the song is really annoying too, should've just made it a separate track as an interlude so I could actually skip the damn thing all together.
-I rarely listen to anything he did with Motown, solo or Jackson 5. I do play The Jacksons a
lot more, but even then it's mostly just their greatest hits. I have one of their studio albums on vinyl and their live album but I don't ever really feel like playing them. I have attempted to stream Victory but it didn't really grab me... so maybe in the future I'll give it another chance.
-The outtakes for Invincible were better than many of the final songs that made it. Ugghh seriously, how the F**K did APWNN
not make Invincible but Don't Walk Away did?! Don't Walk Away is terrible! Terrible!!
-In saying that, 2000 Watts really isn't that bad of a song. It's retreading territory without adding much, perhaps, but generally I like it!
-While I've come to accept that the vocals are almost certainly not MJ's, Breaking News is catchy as shit.
-I actually like some of the BOTDF remixes haha. Oh and the remixes on Bad 25 are allgood (except Pitbull's one).
-He and Stevie Wonder could've done much better work on their duet for the Bad album. Get It (which ended up on Stevie's album) was great though!
-I prefer Girlfriend over the song Off the Wall.
Teeeellll hiimmmm woo-hooooo!
-People find TGIM with Macca really cheesy but Idc I love it so much!
-While HIStory, BOTDF and Invincible good albums in their own right (with Invincible being the exception as simply 'eh'), I don't think their replay value is as high as the albums that precede it. Of course I have listened to all 3 of these albums immensely over the years, but for the last couple of years I have just found myself playing the songs off Thriller, Bad and Dangerous far more (all three of these just mentioned are utter perfection). My view on those final albums of his may change over time.
- When Michael started going white in 1986, he should have come out and said right then that he has this skin disease that destroys the pigmentation of the skin. Instead he waited till 93 to reveal the truth about his skin disease by which point the media ha brainwashed many into believing that Michael hated his race so he changed his skin colour. Even though it was shown in MJ's autopsy report that he had vitaligo, there are still many out there who believed that Michael deliberately change his skin colour and all of that could have been avoided if MJ had come out and said about his problems from the very beginning.
While I think it would've been best for Michael Jackson to release said detail much earlier than he did... it's hard to fault for him for not doing so. It's a situation where I can see both sides of the coin. At the end of the day, it is a private health matter and he shouldn't have to release that... but then again he's in the public eye and it's a very rare but obvious condition that'll get people talking and gossiping (especially if you don't talk about it).
Either way, it was lose-lose for Michael so whatever he chose, I could understand why he did what he did.