Actually the U.S slandered his name way more than any other country, believe it or not.
People seem to have more hate for him there than anywhere else.
I remember Liz Taylor adressing this on Larry king when he asked her why Michael didn't tour U.S anymore, she basically said: why should he? after the way he's been treated here.
Im with Liz!! To be ripped apart the way he was in America his home land must have really hurt! :no:
And that's why i just don't get it that after the trip to Bahrain..he came back and starting living in the county..where basically he got arrested and being treated as shit.
After all those things that happened..and still wanted to live in that area.
He would have toured in the U.S. again. Kenny Ortega said that after London they were going to take the TII tour to Africa, India, Japan and then finally the U.S. Travis Payne said that this was a 3 to 4 year commitment.
Because it was still home. His mother and sibllings were here and his children were born here.
Despite all the ridiculous crap he was put through in the states, it is still very difficult to forever leave your homeland.
ETA: especially for someone like Michael in which acceptance had always been important to him.
Actually the U.S slandered his name way more than any other country, believe it or not.
People seem to have more hate for him there than anywhere else.
I remember Liz Taylor adressing this on Larry king, he asked her why Michael didn't tour U.S anymore and she basically said: why should he? after the way he's been treated here.
He may have toured the U.S at some point...i mean, since he died we will only know about the U.K. dates forever.
but, what pissed me off was some of the remarks from the media after the tour was announced. i hardly heard that it was ''record breaking'' on the news here. and these media people have this thing where if your an American star and you start only performing overseas, they assume your career is down the drain. ...i did hear remarks like that. it would be like wow 50 dates, but then say ''oh but its overseas, he's big there''. that annoyed me to pieces. can't they see how big he is everywhere???? it made me want Mike to tour here to shut them up. they don't care unless its in America.
exactly, he's American. home is home. i never thought he would stay overseas for long. the U.S. is main home.
He's American so naturally we would talk about him the most. we enjoy dissing our own. but, if your talking about slandered names, that certain word that we can't say here, did not come from the U.S.
(although Americans had no issue calling him that word themselves.)
He may have toured the U.S at some point...i mean, since he died we will only know about the U.K. dates forever.
but, what pissed me off was some of the remarks from the media after the tour was announced. i hardly heard that it was ''record breaking'' on the news here. and these media people have this thing where if your an American star and you start only performing overseas, they assume your career is down the drain. ...i did hear remarks like that. it would be like wow 50 dates, but then say ''oh but its overseas, he's big there''. that annoyed me to pieces. can't they see how big he is everywhere???? it made me want Mike to tour here to shut them up. they don't care unless its in America.
he never said whycan someone tell me?
ppl mention this but ive never seen any evidence of it. no dates were ever announced no tickets went on sale unlike the austrailian leg which should have happened around the same timeThe Dangerous Tour was planned to come to the states in 1994, But the rest of the tour was canceled due to the 1993 mess.
I'm pretty sure he would have toured the states in 94 if nothing had went down in 93. Everything was canceled before any dates were set or tickets went on sale. Even though the tour ended in Nov 93, MJ probably had in mind to cancel the tour shortly after the 93 allegations surfaced. He completed (Most of ) the dates and simply didn't add anymore.
From what I have heard was the plan was release Dangerous as a single in the winter, and to film the Dangerous short film for a late winter release. The U.S. Leg would have been in spring-summer 94. So if this was the case, no evidence of dates or locations exists because everything was canceled long before they were announced. I see no reason why MJ wouldn't have toured the US with Dangerous if the 93 mess didn't come up. There was a reason he was saving Dangerous as the last single, it was the only radio ready dance track left. It would have given a nice boost to sales.
Then again, if all this went down, we probably wouldn't have had HIStory in 1995. Well not in the form we got at least. It probably would have been a hits package with 2 or 3 new songs, like the shelved decade project of 1990. If the 93 thing never happened, then half of the material on HIStory probably wouldn't exists. (In lyric form at least)
Because it was still home. His mother and sibllings were here and his children were born here.
Despite all the ridiculous crap he was put through in the states, it is still very difficult to forever leave your homeland.
ETA: especially for someone like Michael in which acceptance had always been important to him.
Had that doctor not f-ed everything up he would have came back to the US, probably the first place after London that he would have toured here. This is what made me really angry, because if that was the case, I would've had an opportunity to go see Michael Jackson in concert for the first time in my life.
I don't remember the last time he toured Canada either... I think it may have been back during the Victory tour...I believe he came to Toronto, but I was 2 years old...lol....Why did he never come to Canada?? Anyone know??