Joseph Mora

Ex–Tower Records artist 🎨✨ Globe-trotter 📸🌍 Disneyland junkie 🏰 MJ & Janet 4 life 🖤 Jurassic Park obsessed 🦖 Men? Bend over. ❤️

[Joseph Mora @PapiNCali]

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[Joseph Mora @PapiNCali]

🎃 Halloween tribute. When in New York City! Had to make a stop at Spook Central, the iconic 55 Central Park West, home of Dana Barrett in the original Ghostbusters.

Standing in front of a little piece of movie history. Who you gonna call? 👻🚫

#Ghostbusters #SpookCentral #NYC #Halloween #MovieHistory

[Joseph Mora @PapiNCali]

🎃 tribute to Halloween, memories from NYC!

A visit to Spook Central, 55 Central Park West, aka Diana’s apartment building in the original Ghostbusters. A little movie magic at one of cinema’s most iconic locations. 👻🎬

#Ghostbusters #SpookCentral #NYC #Halloween

[Joseph Mora @PapiNCali]

I was there and and years after...

The Castro didn’t suddenly become dangerous because people decided to have fun. Halloween in 2001 was already drawing tens of thousands, and large crowds, alcohol and public disorder were part of the reality. More than 50 arrests?

That's worth discussing, but let's not rewrite history to make today's crowds look uniquely problematic.

People who were there remember the energy, the community, the spectacle and, yes, the chaos. You can acknowledge the problems without pretending the solution was to kill one of San Francisco's most iconic Halloween traditions. Nostalgia is wonderful, but selective memory is a hell of a drug.

[RetroBayArea @RetroBayArea]

This is what the Castro in San Francisco looked like on Halloween 2001, exactly 25 years ago today.

🎃👻🦇⚰️

[AlertesInfos @AlertesInfos]

🧟‍♂️🇫🇷 Insolite : des dizaines de personnes se sont rassemblées au pied de la tour Eiffel, à Paris, pour reproduire la célèbre chorégraphie de "Thriller" de Michael Jackson à l’occasion d’Halloween. (via @CLPRESSFR)

[Cris @cris_rys7]

REQUEST THRILLER NOW!!!!!
COPY AND COMMENT THEIR POST⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
@MostRequestLive @OnAirRomeo Please play the original 1982 Michael Jackson’s Thriller!

[Joseph Mora @PapiNCali]

@Abusedjacoochie @PopByNumbers “Janitor” is certainly a creative way to announce that you’ve run out of arguments. When the discussion requires actual chart history, commercial data and cultural impact, apparently the vocabulary takes the day off. 💀

[Joseph Mora @PapiNCali]

Janet’s streaming numbers are being used as a weapon in a comparison that conveniently ignores history. Her catalog wasn’t fully available on streaming platforms from the beginning, so she missed years of algorithmic exposure, playlist placement and streaming accumulation.

You can argue Madonna is commercially bigger without pretending Spotify is an unbiased historical scoreboard. Janet was building her legacy when Spotify didn’t even exist.

If we’re going to compare 20th-century artists, bring actual historical context. Otherwise, this is just cherry-picking numbers to manufacture a victory. 💀

[Joseph Mora @PapiNCali]

Comparing Spotify streams without acknowledging that Janet Jackson entered the streaming era at a historical disadvantage is less music analysis and more statistical theater.

Madonna had a head start in the streaming marketplace. Janet’s catalog wasn’t fully available on streaming platforms in the beginning, meaning years of potential streams, playlist exposure, algorithmic discovery, and younger listeners finding her music were lost.

You’re comparing two careers while pretending they had equal starting conditions. They didn’t.

And Spotify streams aren’t a measurement of musical legacy, cultural impact, influence, or artistry. Janet helped shape the very pop landscape Madonna benefited from. Reducing that history to a 15–0 scoreboard is convenient, but hardly intellectually honest.

Numbers matter. Context matters more.

[Kristi Yamaguccimane @TheWapplehouse]

Happy Anniversary to the insane way Kirstie Alley’s parents were dressed when they died in a car wreck

[Cris @cris_rys7]

THRILLER IS GOING NUMBER ONE ON ALL PLATFORMS TOMORROW!
ARE YOU READY????
#ThrillerChallenge2026

[Jurassic Library @JurassicLibrary]

After all of these years, it has finally been found!

Fans of Jurassic Park, I humbly present to you, the animated Pitch Trailers for the canceled Jurassic Park Animated Show!

More info coming soon!

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

An ad for ‘GODZILLA MINUS ZERO’ spotted in Times Square.

[Pop Core @TheePopCore]

Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” has climbed to No. 1 on U.S. Apple Music ahead of Halloween.

[World Music Awards @WORLDMUSICAWARD]

#MichaelJackson’s “Thriller” shoots to a new peak at #2 (+8) on US Spotify with 1.361 MILLION streams, and rockets back into the Top 10 of Global Spotify at #8 (+39) with 3.094M streams, after peaking at #5 last Halloween! It has now over 1,103 BILLION streams! 💪🐐👑❤️‍🔥

STREAM: https://t.co/u5kylyqHin

#Thriller
#KingofPop
#MichaelJackson
@Michaeljackson

[Kalshi Music @Kalshi_Music]

Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” is the first music video ever selected for the US National Film Registry.

The Library of Congress added it in 2009, the year he died.

[Joseph Mora @PapiNCali]

At the end of the day, the uncomfortable truth is that Rocco, at 15, wanted to live with his father, Guy Ritchie, rather than continue living with Madonna. She took the matter to court, but even a judge couldn’t force the situation into the outcome she wanted.

Madonna could walk away from her marriage with an estimated £50–60 million settlement, but she couldn’t negotiate her son’s willingness to live with her.

That’s what makes this story so personal. You can win a divorce settlement, but you can’t win a custody battle by treating your child’s feelings like another legal dispute.

[Joseph Mora @PapiNCali]

At the end of the day, the uncomfortable truth is that Rocco, at 15, wanted to live with his father, Guy Ritchie, rather than continue living with Madonna. She took the matter to court, but even a judge couldn’t force the situation into the outcome she wanted.

Madonna could walk away from her marriage with an estimated £50–60 million settlement, but she couldn’t negotiate her son’s willingness to live with her.

That’s what makes this story so personal. You can win a divorce settlement, but you can’t win a custody battle by treating your child’s feelings like another legal dispute.

[Brooks @evanbrooksq]

Madonna settled her 2008 divorce from Guy Ritchie for at least £50 million, and in 2016 she went to court to get their son back from him.

"I'd assume it's one of the largest payouts ever in a divorce settlement," her spokeswoman said, and the pub in west London stayed with him.

They married at a castle in Scotland in December 2000, and by October 2008 the split was public. The settlement was put at £50 million to £60 million and included Ashcombe House, their English country estate, out of a fortune of about $525 million that was mostly hers.

In December 2015, their son Rocco, then 15, left her tour and moved to London to live with Ritchie.

Madonna asked a New York court to bring him back, and Judge Deborah Kaplan ordered Rocco to return. When he did not, she declined to issue a warrant and urged the parents to settle out of court.

"I was on tour at the time, so I had to go on stage every night. I would just be lying on the floor of my dressing room sobbing," Madonna said.

"I really thought it was the end of the world," she said.

In September 2016, the case settled just before the parents were due in court. Ritchie's attorney said Rocco "can continue to live with his father in London."

Years later, Madonna said: "I'm really good friends with my son." Asked whether the lesson was acceptance, she said: "It took me a long time, actually. Several years."

The money took about 2 months to settle in 2008, the fight over Rocco took 9 months in 2016, and accepting it took her "several years," she said.

[Joseph Mora @PapiNCali]

At the end of the day, the uncomfortable truth is that Rocco, at 15, wanted to live with his father, Guy Ritchie, rather than continue living with Madonna. She took the matter to court, but even a judge couldn’t force the situation into the outcome she wanted.

Madonna could walk away from her marriage with an estimated £50–60 million settlement, but she couldn’t negotiate her son’s willingness to live with her.

That’s what makes this story so personal. You can win a divorce settlement, but you can’t win a custody battle by treating your child’s feelings like another legal dispute.

[Golden Tunes ✨ @Hoint1967]

That is freaking awesome!🫶🫶