Has everyone forgot this guy cant even sit in a seat at a trial. He cant sing & has always cancelled or made excuses. The dude is lazy, he has no work ethic. This has been a slow slide since the late 1980's of being lazy. It is always easier to release a "jacko stunt" for a quick hit public relations stunt, then actually working. Now that he cant live off the beatles music and needs to actually work. I cant see him doing more then a few vegas concerts, then cancelling a bunch, fake illness,etc.

but actually if you see his latest 101 tricks since his trial is to release a story, let it be talked about for a few days, then say it isn't true. He has done this for a year solid. The difference is not many in the public or in the press cares.

Michael Jackson danced for hours in 2001 when he performed at his 30 years special. While that was 5 years ago, it was fairly recent. I'm sure Michael Jackson can still dance.

As far as the comparisson between Michael Jackson and Prince, I think there are several points that can be agreed on:
-Prince is a much better musician without a doubt.
-Michael Jackson has a better singing voice. Prince has a nice voice, but Jackson has a near perfect voice with a great deal of range.
-While they can both dance, Michael is more well known for his dancing and is arguably a better dancer.[/b[b]]
-Prince is unquestionably a better song writer. While Michael has written some great songs for himself, Prince writes fantastic songs for himself as well as many others. A Prince song is an amazing song, no matter who performs it.

While they are both extremely talented:
-Prince is a better musician and artist.
-Michael is a better entertainer.
There is no other entertainer who has captured attention throughout the world more than Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson is the most famous human on the earth.
Prince makes his own music without reliance on others. He is a musical genius.


Prince and Michael are very different. Prince is like a more genuine musician, while Michael is more like an over-the-top performer.
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First of all, I don't think the vases Michael bought at the Venetian were tasteless--I liked them.

And on a more serious note, I don't think Michael Jackson isn't lazy by any sort of means. Since I was a kid I've watched the man move for 2 hours straight sweating his little body towards exhaustion for a crowd. The man has been working like a slave since he was 5 years old and in the public eye since he was 11. He isn't fake or fucked up or anything to me.
People make mistakes, maybe not on the scale of Michael, but dammit, nobody's perfect. Michael isn't broke and all the other lies that are spewing like shit from an open sewer.
Now all I ask for is a little respect for the man, Michael was the only man who gave Prince any competition in the 80s and now because both are unique artists and you don't see that any more. Everyone is drawing from Michael or Prince or James Brown.

I respect Michael as much as I do Prince. Damn!

Another Prince vs MJ thread...

..it is not that serious ..lol...if he ( MJ) does Vegas and you want to see him, then do..if not then don't ..to each his own..they are both talented in various ways..if it's Prince you want to enjoy..then see him..or heck..if you're into both performers..see em both...

http://www.prince.org/msg/8/212438

FWIW, apparently Bain is denying it...

VenusBlingBling said:

I believe Michael's Grandfather was named Prince

guarinigirl2000 said:

Well, I guess that's a fair opinion, but I do think it was tasteless how he threw his money around, he would look at a vase for like a few seconds and then say "I'll have it. And that one and that one" no thought to the expense, whether he could actually afford it with all his cash-flow problems, and for a guy who bangs on about children starving around the world all the time... well, he hardly lives frugally. It was more about being bored and wanting to appear like a mega-rich megastar than actually wanting or needing the things he was buying.



I've always been a fan of MJs music and peformances, however he has definately gotten lazy in recent years, going from 2 hours of sweating singing live to miming whole concerts. In that sense at least he has become rather fake, and with what he has done to his face, body and with what seems to be a fragile mentality and sense of reality, I think it is very easy to argue he is pretty fucked up. Sad as that is to me. Just wish he'd get back to the music on a raw level.

banks said:

Ok. It's just a quite unusual name so I thought...but I was obviously wrong.

VenusBlingBling said:

Michael's gandfather on his mother's side is Prince Albert Scruse. (When i first heard the boy's name was Prince, I was like, "I thought MJ and P hated each other!" )