"Pre-vitiligo and post vitiligo"...

WTF

I have known 'black' people who suffered from vitiligo, and they simply just don't turn white entirely in a snap.

Okay, Michael might have had that skin disease... but its a disease that results in several white spots on a 90 percent 'black' body, not an entire white body.

Its obvious MJ bleached his entire body white, Vitiligo or not.

Timmy84 said:

Agreed.

RONNYRON said:

I'd WAY rather go to a New Jack Swing party

Cinnie said:

I New Jack Swing.....why did it have to end????!!!!

whatsgoingon said:

That is just sad.

Cinnie said:

How about techno?

Timmy84 said:

mid-80s techno, hell yeah

Cinnie said:

Me too, and I love disco!

Cinnie said:

Cool.

Last time I checked, be it depigmentation from vitiligo, or albinism, Michael Jackson was born and died a Black man.

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midnightmover said:

I think the point is that far more copies of Bad were sold on cassette and vinyl than CD. Even with Dangerous the majority of copies would have been sold in either one of those formats. Therefore, there should be much more people getting those albums now than there are. He has 9 albums in the Top 40, but neither of those two crucial albums are even in the Top 100. Let me repeat, neither of them are even in the Top 100!

estelle81 said:

We have to part company there. The chorus was decent on WYWTOM, but the verses to me were kind of mediocre. Just my opinion.

graecophilos said:

Okay, I just listened to it again for the first time in years. The chorus is great. Verses not so good, but okay. Overall, it's not great, but much better than "crap".

SUPRMAN said:

Yes! The "Prince" album is a much more enjoyable listen to me than "Off The Wall". And Prince did the whole thing by himself as well!

"When We're Dancing Close And Slow" is awesome! Definitely one of P's most underrated songs.

Riverpoet31 said:

you dumb fuck.
do you want a picture of his cock to satisfy your pathetic urges?
fucking dumb ass.

they showed the pictures on the tv for fucks sake.
the doctor confirmed it himself he had vitiligo.

don't be so stupid.
"riverpoet"?

more like "dumbfuckpoet".

midnightmover said:

If you're talking about the UK, "Bad", "Dangerous" and "Invincible" are not charting there because they are budget albums. Albums that have a lower price listing than £3 from label to retail. Those albums are #1-3 on the Budget chart.
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I think they'll get to his later (White MJ ) work over time. Right now everyone is on a nostalgia trip with his music...they want to hear the stuff they grew up with.

Nikademus said:

Yeah there's no such thing as "white MJ".

A better way is saying:

Do you like pre-Thriller MJ or post-Thriller MJ.

asaint said:

Thank you.

asaint said:

Yeah I figure they were budgeted issues.

Rogue588 said:

Out of pure and utter curiosity this last week, I've been listening to MJ. I wanted to see why folks world wide found him to still be so iconic despite the fact that it's been years since he's released anything worth listening to.

Even the Thais in Bangkok all know about Micheal Jackson, and some still listen to his music. But they're listening to Thriller and Bad--not anything after that.
So there's something that sticks with them about the music.


I listened to everything from off-the-wall to his latest releases (Thriller was my favorite because it was the album that made me a fan during the brief stint in the 80s when I was a fan).

Hearing the music again, and actually paying attention to it made me realize that MJ's music, though completely radical at that time (R&B/Rock/dance combos), is pretty standard fair today. In Off-the-wall and Thriller he croons with the best of them, harmonizing with a very very nice if strangely androgynous voice.

But the songs are meant to be sung along to--not to be studied and dissected like many of Prince's better works (or works by artists I most admire). So, it was very difficult for me to hold interest after playing his stuff for awhile. I found myself wanting desperately to skip tracks on all the albums.

So the only thing I have to go by is this 'sing along' impulse the songs and albums inspire, and Thriller and Off-the-wall outdo all the new material.

So yeah--black MJ, at least to me, is better than white MJ.



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Timmy84 said:

yeah, not I prefer the "High Yella" MJ to the "Black" MJ. God people are retarded .

NastradumasKid said:

Exactly.

Timmy84 said:

God, you guys need to get a sense of humour.

midnightmover said:

Dude, we have a sense a humor it's just beyond your fucking level and if you want to start something then bring it
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Well we have different senses of humor then.

asaint said:

I see. God, you really can't trust charts these days. It's like how they don't include compilations by various artists in the main charts anymore either because it would show up how they're outselling original albums.

So I assume white MJ is getting some love too. I'm still not seeing the posters though.

And funnily enough since I started this thread I've seen black girls on the street singing "Rock With You" and "Beat It", and seen a remix of "Rock With You" on a satellite music channel. The video was just the old one, but with the remix playing. It made me appreciate Michael's performance there for the first time. He looks a lot happier and "normal" then.

NastradumasKid said:

Yeah, but subtle humour obviously goes under you radar completely.

Americans....

Do you think you are making an argument here by namecalling?

As I said, Vitiligo doesnt make the entire skin of a person 'white'. Its a matter of spreaded spots.

I never said he didnt have virtiligo (which i doubt by the way), I only said his totally white face, chest, arms and hands show he has done a lot of bleeching of his skin.

If anyone is pathetic here its you: people like you defending shit like Michael is totally white now, because he has THIS skin disease, or he can't sing live anymore because he has THAT lung-disease. There is ALWAYS an easy (often misplaced) excuse by the likes of you, to keep portraying MJ as some semi-god you have created in your own mind.