When did you become a MJ fan?

[R1chard]

Quite surprised not to have seen a similar topic.

 

[Matajudíos69]

Sadly after 2009.

 

[R1chard]

When did this board start, 2007? Slightly surprised by the results so far - it can't be true that half the people are so recent...

 

[Candi87]

I loved his Off The Wall album is when I got hooked. Love his music and wish I could have gotten to see him live in concert.

 

[1958MJJmoonwalker7]

when i was five the first song i listened to was beat it

 

[MJImpeccable]

The day he died.. I was nine or ten years old when I watched the news on tv and I saw the sadness and the huge impact it had on my parents and the world. I was mystified so I started watching youtube video's of his performances.

 

[filmandmusic]

I think an option post 2019 would have been interesting

Anyway: very late 80s for me

 

[Albion]

1972 Lookin’ Through the Windows. I’m from England and I’m sure I first saw the Jackson 5 on Top of the Pops but that may be a false memory.

 

[PixieJ]

When did this board start, 2007? Slightly surprised by the results so far - it can't be true that half the people are so recent...

A lot of "old" fans are not on the boards/not regular any more.

 

[R1chard]

I think an option post 2019 would have been interesting

Anyway: very late 80s for me

Yeah, better would have been simply to type in the year.

 

[R1chard]

1972 Lookin’ Through the Windows. I’m from England and I’m sure I first saw the Jackson 5 on Top of the Pops but that may be a false memory.

Ah, very good. I was born late 70s - I do like that song though, from hearing it on a subsequent compilation. Every so often they show those episodes of TOTP...

 

[#applehead24]

A little over two years ago. I heard his name for the first time in like, april of 2023

 

[AlwaysThere]

I was 12 when MJ died and knew absolutely nothing about him beyond the media sensationalism, so I was taken aback by the outcry when he died. I’d never heard his music before other than miscellaneous snippets here and there.

One day, I was channel surfing and caught a glimpse of Macaulay Culkin on TV. I was curious, so I doubled back. Of course, it wound up being the video for “Black or White.”

Genuinely, it was a revolutionary moment for me. I’d never heard a song like that, listened to a voice like that, or seen artistic presence like that. It blew me away that someone that good existed. I immediately begged my grandmother to take me to Walmart to buy some of his CDs, and I’ve been a diehard fan ever since.

 

[MJ is my life]

Very recently. I became a fan of his summer of 2024

 

[Michaels Lover]

I became a fan in 1992

 

[michaeljackson.nl]

Around 2012/13. It was quite some time before Xscape as I can remember.

 

[innuendo141]

It's funny, the result of this poll actually puts a lot into perspective on here.