Vanity Fair is so BITTER that their decades long campaign to cancel Michael Jackson didn't pan out. It is laughable that they can't contain their misery during this interview. Colman Domingo brought receipts - Maureen Orth of @VanityFair lies, got exposed; much to their chagrin.
@wingheart Since u were so closely associated w/ MJ while Ali was growing up, did that ever affect her experience at school or the way other kids or parents approached her? Did you ever have to navigate people being unusually interested in her/envious etc because of your connection to MJ?
@wingheart I love that she was a world traveler, probably a few times over even before the age of five🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 and she was also around a variety of different people. So important. I’m reflecting on these brighter, themes a lot more these days
From J. Randy Taraborelli's book. Then he spends the book criticizing MJ for his plastic surgeries. 🙄
One day maybe we can have an honest conversation about the hypocrisy of white media and them being a part of the problem.
Other fandoms, when they try to bash MJ and get pushback from his fans who cite streams or sales to support the argument for his cultural relevance, often try to be dismissive of that saying:
"y'all always talk about sales/streams as if it means something". Thing is, when we are talking about long term cultural relevance it DOES actually mean something.
“Jacko” was part of “Wacko Jacko,” which had been used for years by the British tabloid press and had become associated with an entire caricature constructed around Jackson.
Choosing “Jacko” to announce his death does not erase the history that word carries with it.
Jackson himself rejected the name and expressed his displeasure with it. In his 1997 interview with Barbara Walters, he said: “I’m not a ‘Jacko.’ I’m Jackson.”
“Michael Jackson’s death sanitised his career”
Yet, this was the starting point of Michael Jackson’s posthumous period.
“Jacko” — the same reductive tabloid label that had been used for years — appeared in enormous letters above the announcement of his death.
"There was never any real proof that he abused children. But then Oprah and Leaving Neverland convinced her".
If I didn't know any better, I'd think these were the opening lines of a comedy skit.
Everything about 2019 screamed pre-planned media attack, but none of it worked.
Some people make defending him so much more complicated than it even has to be.
Simply liking & reposting posts from other advocates, rating community notes, reporting harmful posts, and dropping links to helpful resources would suffice.
Yet they can't even do that much. Smh
While the conspiracy charge was the weakest among those in the 2005 trial, it is not one that can be explained away to boost the Arvizo family's credibility. In fact, it undermines it.
Truthful people would not make demonstrably false claims amid such a serious situation.
And slowly slowly Hollywood starts taking a u-turn. Mentionning Michael Jackson in series avoiding low blows like in this new series about JFK jr. "Love story". A deliberate choice of a mention of his name. MJs book Moonwalk contained a foreword by Jackie Kennedy Onassis