midiscover said:

SherryJackson said:

Stone pervert...

Just like Michael Jackson

C'mon fam.....not like this

bboy87 said:

midiscover said:

Just like Michael Jackson

C'mon fam.....not like this

I have lost most, if not all respect for Quincy Jones after the way he spoke of Michael. I don't care if michael were still living when he said that. he claims to have been such good friends with michael and says tht he loves him so much. FUCKING BULL SHIT! if you love someone, you don't go on national tv and embarass them with lies and make them look like a crazy person, and then not even have their back when they are going through something as horrible as a child molestation trail. fuck him. if i ever saw him, i'd spit in his face.

Chris brown, i was never a fan of his, but obviously, i am even further from that now.

R kelley. once again. i've never been a big fan of his, but i REALLY can't stand him. i think he's absolutely disgusting.

TonyVanDam said:

Timmy84 said:

Whatever he does in his personal life is his business. Still love George.

I don't mind knowing that George Michael like to smoke . I'm only disappointed about that incident of him getting high while driving a car!!!

Don't smoke AND drive, that's all I'm saying.

The problem with GM is not that he likes to smoke, but that he seemed completely dependent on it for several years. He could never have driven sober because... he was never sober! Even in the recording studio he was apparently so high that he had to lay on the floor to sing.

I recall one interview where he stated he was only smoking if someone else would roll the joint, as if that was a way to slow down...but he must have had a lot of enablers because he kept crashing his cars.

jiorjios said:

I did not say that I was expecting GM to stay in his 80s pop self forever. I just say that I wasn't expecting him to mature (musically) so fast. Throughout the 90s his music was sometimes good sometimes not so good but generally boring (to me). I mean compare him with the rest of the '80s megastars: Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince, Janet Jackson, hell even Whitney Houston... did any of them did such a u-turn so early in their career going from some of the best pop ever made to middle-of-the-road AC stuff?

And my criticism of him has nothing to do with my criticism for Mariah. They went on opposite directions yes but for both it looked unnatural. Mariah did something that very few artists have done which is part of the reason it looked (and still looks) so unnatural abd GM did what most artists do eventually but he did it way too abruptly and suddenly which is why it looked so unnatural. In both cases it was off-putting to me

I think part of that is Sony's fault. As we know, Listen Without Prejudice was supposed to be followed up by a pop/dance record but that was scuttled when that argument and lawsuit began. We probably missed a couple transitional albums during the period he was kept from releasing music. By the time he was able to release albums again, he'd moved on to something different.

jtfolden said:

jiorjios said:

I did not say that I was expecting GM to stay in his 80s pop self forever. I just say that I wasn't expecting him to mature (musically) so fast. Throughout the 90s his music was sometimes good sometimes not so good but generally boring (to me). I mean compare him with the rest of the '80s megastars: Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince, Janet Jackson, hell even Whitney Houston... did any of them did such a u-turn so early in their career going from some of the best pop ever made to middle-of-the-road AC stuff?

And my criticism of him has nothing to do with my criticism for Mariah. They went on opposite directions yes but for both it looked unnatural. Mariah did something that very few artists have done which is part of the reason it looked (and still looks) so unnatural abd GM did what most artists do eventually but he did it way too abruptly and suddenly which is why it looked so unnatural. In both cases it was off-putting to me

I think part of that is Sony's fault. As we know, Listen Without Prejudice was supposed to be followed up by a pop/dance record but that was scuttled when that argument and lawsuit began. We probably missed a couple transitional albums during the period he was kept from releasing music. By the time he was able to release albums again, he'd moved on to something different.

Exactly.

jtfolden said:

jiorjios said:

I did not say that I was expecting GM to stay in his 80s pop self forever. I just say that I wasn't expecting him to mature (musically) so fast. Throughout the 90s his music was sometimes good sometimes not so good but generally boring (to me). I mean compare him with the rest of the '80s megastars: Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince, Janet Jackson, hell even Whitney Houston... did any of them did such a u-turn so early in their career going from some of the best pop ever made to middle-of-the-road AC stuff?

And my criticism of him has nothing to do with my criticism for Mariah. They went on opposite directions yes but for both it looked unnatural. Mariah did something that very few artists have done which is part of the reason it looked (and still looks) so unnatural abd GM did what most artists do eventually but he did it way too abruptly and suddenly which is why it looked so unnatural. In both cases it was off-putting to me

I think part of that is Sony's fault. As we know, Listen Without Prejudice was supposed to be followed up by a pop/dance record but that was scuttled when that argument and lawsuit began. We probably missed a couple transitional albums during the period he was kept from releasing music. By the time he was able to release albums again, he'd moved on to something different.

Like Listen Without Prejudice Vol. II