Was Michael Jackson really as big in his prime as this documentary portrays?

Why are you still making these threads

For me, it was always Speed Demon.

youtube.com/watch?v=l039y9FaIjc

A shame Louis Theroux never got his documentary with him. Would have been kino.

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Yes. He was bigger than you can imagine. Think of the 5 biggest stars in music today, combine them, and MJ was still bigger than that.

He was loved by all races and all political parties. He transcended every border and barrier and genre.

He made both sexes cry just by his mere presence.

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There were a couple bigger than him, but he was pretty fucking big.

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how many women do you think he banged?

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>Hi! I´m a zoomer and proud of being a fag
He was bigger than your shitty pop start of today like lady gaga or your favorite hip-hop fag.
He was on the same leage of Elvis and The Beatles. Nothing as reach the same level of popularty, not even Sinatra.

Thats just sales. Michael was on TV and radio all the time, so you didn't necessarily have to buy anything to appreciate him.

I had Moonwalker on VHS, it was great.

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Billie Jean even though its overplayed
And this even though it's a remix
m.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Vp7JcBAHw

That list does not reflect MJ's popularity at the time. Remember his peak happened at the start of MTV and he rode that wave all around the world in ways that wasnt available to the Beatles and Elvis. That's one reason why Thriller is the best selling album of all time and there is no close second.

A huge chunk of Beatles sales, btw, happened in the 90s when they had a revival and it was mostly for the music - it wasnt about insane fandom devotion like it was for Michael Jackson.

I unironically liked Invincible.
Sure it was a little too heavy on the features, but it was a very experimental album for such a mainstream name.
Heartbreaker is still a good track.

You have no idea. No other star has come close since

tons that's to be sure
if by women you mean little boys

In the end, both were very popular and big.

youtube.com/watch?v=rHp0s2wKajw

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Billie Jean,Off the Wall,and Dont Stop Till you get Enough are the top 3 and it will stay that way until I die.

shamone

>if by women you mean little boys
You can't just make these sorts of claims without proof

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Prince's last concerts were bigger than any of Michaels

Is this the greatest songstreak of all time?

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>fandom
fuck this word and fuck tumblr
it's FANS, or FAN BASE, or FANBOYS

I’ve been listening to Human Nature recently and They don’t really care about us

Dirty Diana is undeniably his best

I don't think anyone else will ever be as popular. Maybe Lincoln was as famous in the 1800s.

Listening to Rock with you for the first time with my new $70 headset. Holy fuck it's so good.

youtube.com/watch?v=PqwnLDdu11Q

Who is the retard that keeps posting this exact same thread over and over again?

ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM

This is one of the few times I'm seeing this thread, and I'm here every day.

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Michael had a following since the Jackson 5 years. Then he released Thriller and shit went bonkers.

>They don’t really care about us
Who did MJ mean by "they"?

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>since the Jackson 5

For me, it was Can You Feel it.

youtube.com/watch?v=tirBu1pa0EU

Michael could have commanded his fans to overthrow their governments and worship him as the king of the world and the planet would have been overtaken in less than a day.

LISA ITS YOURE BIRTHDAY
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LISA

For me, its smooth criminal.

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All his songs are so boring and repetitive, I seriously don't understand all the hype around him.
Get any generic pop boy band and you will find more complexity in melody and rhythm.

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>Emoji poster
Hi zoomer phaggot

Was Eddie OK?

>zoomer
zoomer zoomer zoomer

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I didn't know Michael Jackson was even a musician as a kid, I just thought he was a weird looking pedophile.

No he wasn't.

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He he

I couldn't imagine being a zoomer. You guys missed everything.

Beat it, Leave me alone, dirty diana

YOU'VE BEEN TOUCHED BY-

YOU'VE BEEN FUCKED BY-

A SMOOTH CRIMINAL

On a serious note I think he did rape dem keeds.

Yes as big as say Garth Brooks is today

When i was a kid I legit thought he was white lol

I thought he wanted to be a woman. I didn't know he was black.

Smooth Criminal is his only song I really liked (seriously that song is badass) but he's also most certainly a pedophile so it kind of ruins it.

weak b8 1/10
try harder

He was bigger than fucking life bro ,

man can you imagine being as big as MJ and all you want to do is diddle little boys? waste of a life if you ask me

I don't know, I was born in 2001

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Underrated.
youtube.com/watch?v=crbFmpezO4A

>The Lady in My Life
>Another Part of Me
>In the Closet

the last 3 songs on Revolver are way better

retardando

Man in the mirror bitch

>Another Part of Me

The intro to that is the most satisfying video game console boot jingle ever made despite having nothing to do with video games

>pretty young thing

Good song.

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For all time
Wanna be starting somethin'

holy fuck what a slut

1. Michael
2. Elvis
3. Beatles

DON'T YOU KNOW NOWWW IS THE PERFECT TIME?

He was huge.

my grandma knew of him, i'd say he was more popular than Elvis Presley

if he lived toda- nah, forget it. Without him many artists today wouldn't exist, there's a reason he's the King of Pop

youtube.com/watch?v=TrFNsN2LWqQ

>me in high school
>this song plays in the background
youtube.com/watch?v=x1TsfShR5ZY
>somebody in class asks who’s singing
>another guy says “Michael Jackson”
>years go by thinking it’s an MJ song until recently

Are you fucking retarded? That's a marketing tagline. Yeah he was huge, but regurgitating that shit just shows how easy it is for the media to brainwash people.

I'm researching the Jackson mythos cycle. After cross referencing the Sumerian tablets with the Egyptian hieroglyphs I have a question regarding the lore.
Is this accurate...?
>"EO is the embodiment of SHAMONE who used the OW to cleanse the spirit of the AYUWOKI during the year OOH-HOO thus defeating the BEEDIT alliance of WOO at the battle of HOOZBAHD which led to the end of the reign of HEE HEE and the beginning of the era of AAAAAAUUUUGHHH."

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>you will never watch the world premier of the Thriller music video on prime time television

Lol MJ had such charisma and mystery around him that he commanded complete awe.
It was however a thing of the time, I remember just someone saying Michael Jackson or his video playing caused total magnetic attention pull.

Plastic operations, pedophilia, skin color change, mokeys, neverland, his kids, his marriage...theres so much about MJ that was discussed over time by every strata of all societies around the world. pretty crazy for a pop star

Bigger.

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lol

I wonder why shit like this is impossible now. Closest thing in recent memory is Bieber I'd say and he never even remotely approached Jackson

>Bieber
You never leave the house huh?
Drake in '16 and '18 was the most inescapable vortex I've ever seen from a mainstream musician

>You never leave the house huh?
>Drake in '16 and '18 was the most inescapable vortex
I know Drake is all over the place but it's not the same imo. Bieber's net worth is twice his btw.

>Don't stop till you get Enough for sure

>the post that saved Yea Forums
There is a god.

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Thriller

>t. anti-fandom fangay

based

Not that guy, but you're retarded if you think there was no truth to the label. He was easily the best selling pop artist in the world and sold more concert tickets than fucking anyone.

kek

>marketing tagline
you're either dumb, underage, or both.

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greatest homosexual pedophile to ever moonwalk

The Star Wars OT and prequels are actually based on real-life. Not about the Bush administration, but the life of Ayuwoki Moonwalker (called Anakin Skywalker)

Beat It, Rock my World and Jam

Human nature, You rock my world, Billie Jean.

Who’s the millennials’ MJ? Justin Timberlake is not quite up to par even though he had like a dozen bangers too.

Yes. Unequivocally. There really hasn't been anyone like him since him so it's easy to see how it's hard to believe. A Michael Jackson stage performance was as big as the Super Bowl.

>Madonna
How the hell was someone with almost no good songs so popular?

He was a gay chemically castrated pedo, so probably zero.

It was the image, 80's party girl.

>millenials' MJ

That would be MJ, considering millenials are max like 38 years old. Old enough to see MJ in his prime.

He is overall the greatest entertainer there ever was. He had a huge number of fans in every single country.

The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success. The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worthy of being saved

Jesus Christ. Am I old as fuck or is OP a baby?

Go to sleep, grandpa.

I was born 97 MJ was more known for all the pedo allegations when I was a kid then he was for the music. I still remember how big his death was though, the coverage was insane.

If it makes you feel any younger, I was born in '84.

What about Annie?

Wow, at least I'm not that old. Fuck off granpa.

based

BASED
good choice with "Leave Me Alone"

>come from a bumfuck village of eastern europe where the commies didn't allow imperialist media.
Everyone here knows MJ. Only Freddie Mercury from Queen, David Bowie and Elton John can compare to his fame, but he is the most famous black man.

Wow, at least I know how to spell 'grandpa'. Fuck off, zoomer.

>Stranger in moscow
>Scream
>In the Closet

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He was one of the biggest musical stars of the past century. Yes he was that big.

This.

Mercury and Bowie can't at all fucking compare to MJ, even though they were both admittedly pretty huge.

The only ones reaching the ballpark of MJ are Elvis and the Beatles, but I don't really know how to compare them because technology and distribution were so different in the 80s than the 50s/60s.

Yes, yes he was OP right up until he released the album “Bad” and everyone realised he’d turned into a freak, he peaked in 1987 and his career and life dramatically fell away afterwards.

Eeeeh, I'd say Elvis was bigger because of his movie career, even though he never really left the US.

The only low test fellow here is you my friend, M.J earned that title.

Yes. He was known for his music and him trying to change his race.

What's the best MJ video?
youtube.com/watch?v=Xh9Cp4rd7mI

early/mid 1980's MJ was insanely popular. there is no comparison to anything today. there was also this crazy overlap period in the mid 1980's with Madonna.

MTV made them huge beyond belief.

youtube.com/watch?v=XZGiVzIr8Qg