It's so hard to think of him that way, what with the freakshow elements being so recent. It probably wouldn't have been as bad either if he'd died ten years ago, but it feels like he's been a bizarre weirdo for a long-ass time now. It's going to take quite a lot of time to wash away fifteen years of late-night monologue jokes.
But yeah, in the long-run, you're probably right. In twenty years, you'll barely remember the fifteen nosejobs, but you'll still hear Beat It every now and then.
What we may see is a split in the way people view him, likethe way Elvis is regarded between Young Elvis and Old Elvis. Though in Michael's case he would probally be tri-sected between young Michael, 80's Michael and the last one.
He pretty much made MTV, and also popularized the music video too. Only a few other artists can be have said to have done so. His music will live on, though I suspect it will be from his 80's range. However, there is also a lot of media evidence of his entire career, so the creepy image may still stick. We really have not seen an Entetainer of this magnitude pass away in the Digital Age before this.
Yeah, he really brought this whole army of production to the music business, didn't he? It becomes real obvious when you think about how *little* music he put out in the 80s, which were supposedly HIS decade. Basically 2 albums!
For me, that kind of stuff is easy to overlook -- I'm real oriented toward singles, radio play, and albums. Videos? Concerts? TV shows? Doesn't register for me so much. But I'm an oddity that way.
I mean, heck, I was 9 years old when Thriller came out, which practically made me the target audience. I dug a lot of those singles. But when Bad came out 5 years later? I was like, man, why is this guy getting all this radio play? Who care about Michael Jackson now? But yeah, there was this huge multi-media machine backing him up which I wasn't tuned into at all.
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But yeah, in the long-run, you're probably right. In twenty years, you'll barely remember the fifteen nosejobs, but you'll still hear Beat It every now and then.
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He pretty much made MTV, and also popularized the music video too. Only a few other artists can be have said to have done so. His music will live on, though I suspect it will be from his 80's range. However, there is also a lot of media evidence of his entire career, so the creepy image may still stick. We really have not seen an Entetainer of this magnitude pass away in the Digital Age before this.
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For me, that kind of stuff is easy to overlook -- I'm real oriented toward singles, radio play, and albums. Videos? Concerts? TV shows? Doesn't register for me so much. But I'm an oddity that way.
I mean, heck, I was 9 years old when Thriller came out, which practically made me the target audience. I dug a lot of those singles. But when Bad came out 5 years later? I was like, man, why is this guy getting all this radio play? Who care about Michael Jackson now? But yeah, there was this huge multi-media machine backing him up which I wasn't tuned into at all.
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