Yeah, I remember it happening and have both versions of the album, surely that didn't affect the entire remainder of the HIStory campaign? The TDCAU lyrics were discussed in the Diane Sawyer interview so it was known during Screams release
Critics & the general audience are 2 different things. Mainstream music listeners are who gave Drake 300 or so hits, lol. Critics like Bob Dylan, but Dylan has had very few radio hits.
You forgot to mention Smile and This Time Around. 2 poor singles, one of them could be a real hit (Smile)
America is a strange place. Can’t say bitch on the radio but can buy a gun in a supermarket and kill people and go on with your business.
Earth Song was a monster hit in the UK , the biggest of MJ's career! I can't believe it wasn't released as a single in the US.
To this day I've never heard Earth Song on the radio, and Blood On The Dance Floor only once. Blood was on the Rush It Or Flush It on a local R&B station and more listeners called in to the station to flush it. It never got played again. I remember one of the DJs said he was glad it got flushed because he thought it sounded dated and he wouldn't have to hear it by playing it all the time. I used to see the videos on VH-1 a few times though, the Blood video had the Wyclef remix. The R&B stations played This Time Around as an album track though. Notorious B.I.G. being popular at the time probably had something to do with it. Dallas Austin was one of TLC's producers and they were hot then too
You see a familiar name pop up,
Yeah, just like how in Europe someone can throw acid in a woman's face and just keep walking, nary a care in the world.
It’s the most played song from the HIStory album in Belgium, followed by TDCAU. The others don’t get any spins. Though I heard “ childhood” a couple of times on a very small scale regional radio station.
Same in Belgium, radio presenters were underwhelmed. It didn’t break through and after the fans‘ rush on the single it dropped like a stone.
Just like how you can have kids murdered by Zombies in video games, but women can't wear bikini's or have big breasts for some reason
Don’t forget what happened yesterday. An illegal guy without papers sprayed 2 people on the streets in Belgium with an automatic weapon when he should have been evicted by the country months ago As he was illegal and known by the police.
Tragedies happen everywhere. Bad morals are not an American concept. Meanwhile the average citizen just wants to go about their day everywhere. But that's a whole lotta discussion anyway.
There's not many games where you see a child die. You can show them horror movies in math class though.
Yeah, I was gonna say, it got new legs. Tbh, it could end up going Number 1 one day.
Michael's management team was fucking horrible after Dangerous, Invincible coming during the Y2K with cutting edge music videos using the CGI effects would have broken so many records. History would have done a lot better with better timing etc
I'd say they started being bad as early as Dangerous, it just fell by the way side still. Give in To Me was a huge fumble, and Who Is It could've done way better as well. I blame MJ and Oprah for that actually, kinda.
I never understood why Give Into Me wasn't performed live, i feel like Happy Birthday Lisa being a official singles release on Dangerous after the Simpson's episode would have done a lot to promote the album too. Dangerous is arguably the best song he's ever made, and wasn't a singles release nor did it get a music video.
People's thoughts did change after 93, MJ's name has never managed to break free from the scandal.
I think some of that was Mike's own doing, because some were offended by the statue thing. Even a few years before that, there was the British singer who jumped onstage while Mike was performing on some UK TV program. Some people thought Mike's ego was too big. Just like a lot of people do with Kanye West today. Some people think cancel culture is a new thing with the youngest generation, but it's always been around in some form. It's just that the internet & social media made it more widespread & mainstream.
Because it was fumbled as a single in the US. And he just decided to focus on Who Is It.
Dangerous came out after Stark Raving Dad by several months, they could have easily got rid of Keep the Faith, and replaced it with Happy Birthday Lisa.
For some people, the "scandals" and allegations never registered in their minds. Plenty of people never turned on MJ or have believed him capable of any such gross misconduct. Admittedly they may say they would let their kids stay with him, but that's another topic, not necessarily relevant. MJ did like the parents being there though.
