bboy87 said:

well shoot... he looks good/normal there too!
wth.
he looks fly!

kash said:

Shes the lady that wants to look like a cat right??

I thought he looked good during the trial too, but as for him widening his eyes-I just don't buy that lol. I've never heard that one before. His eyes have always looked like that ever since he was a child:



If there is one thing about his physical appearence that has remained the same, it's that. I don't think he's had anything done to his eyes.
[Edited 9/23/07 22:22pm]

DANGEROUSx said:

not too sure about a cat.

kash said:

OMG MY EYES ARE BURNING!!!!!1

sammij said:

I've always thought he looked good with the five o'clock shadow...

The new pictures look great. The wig he is wearing in this photo shoot is shorter than he has been wearing, but he still needs to go shorter. In 1995 and some of 96 he had great hair. Think the TDCAU video, the 95 VMA's performance and to some extent the Earth Song video (getting a bit long by this point). It was short, a little messy, it made him look more normal. He kind of brought that hair back for the 30th anniversary concert, but not really. I'd like to see him with hair that short again. It suits him more than this long jet-black straightened BS he's wearing.

kash said:

Um. I take that back.
She doesn't even look like a cat?
I'm sure a cat was her inspiration

EmbattledWarrior said:

Whats the five o` clock shadow?

DarlingDiana said:

ONE LAST TIME.....







There's a difference between a wig and a weave.

Michael has a weave. They're just extensions.

DANGEROUSx said:

the hair growth on his face.

Oh.

Thanks.

ah cool. New expression learned. And yes, he looked HOT in the TV guide shoot.

Michael looks better here than he has done for ages, but quite frankly Michael cross the line during the late Thriller/Bad era. The surgery should have started and stopped with one nose job, during the Off The Wall era and it should have never gone beyond the Thriller era. Once we got into the Bad era, anyone with eyes knew it would be all the way downhill from there.

Everytime a new pic of Michael comes out, it's the same old shit of people saying he shouldn't have surgery or he should've stopped after Thriller. No matter how many new photos of him come out, you are still going to think the same thing, so just get over it already. Accept that that's how he looks now, and move on. He looks different, sure. But he still looks good. I really like how he looks in these photos.

People like to think they don't judge people by appearances, but Michael Jackson is the best example of just how judgemental people still are. Because it's become okay to judge Michael Jackson's appearance, people use him as outlet for all their built up judgemental remarks that they aren't allowed to say to other people without being politically incorrect. It's sad, but it's true. People who have racist thoughts hold it in until they can unleash all their racism on Michael Jackson without it looking bad on them. It's terrible. It just shows that the world is still very discriminatory.

bboy87 said:

I take it back. He still looked alright in 1999. I like what he is wearing in that picture.

DarlingDiana said:

so,if somebody criticizes Michael for his many face-lifts and his many attempts to look "white",they are racists?

SoulAlive said:

Dear God (if there is one):

Please do not let this thread go to hell. It would be nice for at least one Michael Jackson-related thread to end on a good note.

Sincerely,
Rodya24
[Edited 9/24/07 6:42am]

Oh great, Soulalive has arrived.

Let the MJ bashing...BEGIN!

Diana, people say those things because compared to how he used to look, he DOESNT look good now, he looks terrible.

Im a big MJ fan but still get annoyed with Michael for what he has done to himself, although I realise its none of my business.

The lipstick REALLY needs to go though, thats my biggest problem with Michael at the moment, your not a chick Mike.

you mean some of yall didn't know what a 5 o'clock shadow was?

sammij said:

A number of newer Michael Jackson fans are in their preteens or teens -- hence the complete ignorance about what a 5 o'clock shadow is.

EDIT: Some non-native English speakers are also unaware of what a 5 o'clock shadow is.

[Edited 9/24/07 7:22am]
[Edited 9/24/07 9:15am]

Rodya24 said:

awww, so cute (still knew what that was as a teenager but that's just me)

sammij said:

DarlingDiana said:

If Michael didn't want people to judge him by his appearance he shouldn't have changed it so much in the first place. No one went on and on and on and on about his appearance in the 70s the way they do today. That in itself tells you something. Or did he really believe no one would notice an attractive black guy turning into a white woman? b

bboy87 said:

BabyBeMine said:

+

Same here!! I was born October 1988. I knew the man from the Rock With you video dressed as a disco ball was the same man in the Billie Jean video lighting up the sidewalk, who was the same man screaming his head off in a train station. I knew all these men were once a little boy from a group with his brothers the Jackson 5. Its funny how I never questioned his appearance. Of course then it wasn't as drastic, but it tickles me when you're that young you don't pay attention to things. Like when me and my sister/auntie were watching the premieres of 'Black or White' and 'Remember the Time' for example, I never thought why -- it actually never even crossed my mind -- why he was paler then ever before. I knew it was still Michael Jackson.

I wonder, if only I was older at the time, how it must of felt to see this sort of thing going on. (Especially when the internet was pretty much a non entity to yap about). I can only imagine...

"Er...does Michael look...lighter to you?"

Like someone said, I'm still trying to figure out what happened from 97 to 2001. His cheeks are sunken in, the cleft looks horrible as ever, his eyes are ..interesting, so on and so forth. My only guess is, once you have that much plastic surgery in your youth, it catches up to you as you age. But if theres any I'm concerned more about than his appearance is his health. Lets face it, its getting hard to breath through that nose. He's been sounding nasally every time he makes a speech (BET 03 James Brown LTA, James Brown funeral, World Music Awards).

Rodya, when you said 60s and 70s, why'd you leave out 80s? 80s Michael was just 70s Michael with a jheri curl.

Nvncible1 said:

LOL thats cool. When did Dave Chappelle say that?

InsatiableCream said:

Please don't ever post that most hideous horrific picture of Michael Joseph Jackson to ever exist.

Rodya24 said:

Lmao, you know Michael.

Zink said:

Yea, I have no idea how that happened. The last time he looked decent was 1996-97 ish. After that, he went so completely M.I.A. it was ridiculous. We never saw nothing. He was gone. All of a sudden he comes back in 2001 and he looks like one of the Whoo people from Dr. Suess' "Why the Grinch stole Christmas". During that whole era he looked dead. He was slow walking, his hair was a mess; looked like her never put a comb through it. He looked like he had a cold/flu all the time, etc. It was like what Jamie Foxx said "..its like all of a sudden he got old. Did you see him on MTV? Barely can moonwalk, what was there gum on the floor? That ain't Michael man, that has to be some puppet or something," Eddie Griffin was saying the same thing in his stand up. I honestly don't think MJ was ready to come back in 2001. Everything was half assed. And if the You Rock My World video wasn't a rehash recycled MJ video if I ever did see one...to say a disappointment would be an understatement.

BabyBeMine said:

Sorry to say, but if he had his pony tail slicked back again, he will not look like he did in 1992. Just look at the Remember the Time video. He had more or less the same hairstyle that hes rocking now (sans lacefront) and he was by far much better looking then (thats a given).

BabyBeMine said:

May I remind the "BRING BACK THE CURLS!" people that half is head is burned, so I don't think that'll be too easy a task...

Fuck the curls. Bring back the afro! Grow it nappy Michael. Drive the media crazy.

VonMarie said:

Same here. I was born in '1961 and have nothing but fond memories of the J5, practicing their moves, dancing to their music at kiddie parties, reading about them in Right On! magazine every month. And all the dudes were rocking their J5 'fro. As another Orger pointed out, Michael was Soul Brother #2 behind the Godfather.

Sadly that Michael is lone gone. The brother went nuts and totally f-d himself up.

floetcist said:

From that pic, I just realized how much Chris Tucker looks like MJ (even tho he has nothing to do w/ this particular picture )