Michael Jackson...genius?

[the.dr]

hi, im a user who has changed my name due to the stick i was getting from other users due to the nature of a few of my questions but anyways...ihope this one wont get banned. right well the other day at work we had michael jacksons album playing in store and a supervisor said to me i hope he didnt do it because i strugggle to believe such a genuis could do what he is accussed of. and i agree find one of his songs that isnt a masterpiece. but he also pointed out to me that if michael goes down you wont hear his music on the radio or on music channels anymore. the owners will quietly give the word not to play it. this would be auch a disgrace to his hardwork and to those who havent yet had the chance to expericne his musical talent. surely its about the music! not about him! but anyway my question is do you agree that his music should be continued to be played in the mainstream and do you in your opinion feel he is innocent or guilty...please answer responsibly as i dont want this question banned. also take a look in Virgin at where his albums are...the bargin bins!! why i wonder! what happened to innocent until proven guilty??? cheers guys

[Maggie-Mae]

I dont know whether Michael Jackson is innocent or guilty of what he is accused of but I think the point about people boycotting his music if he is found guilty is something people are going to have different opinions about. Personally, i would feel the way about him, the same way as I feel when I hear a Gary Glitter song (one of his songs was used in the film "The Full Monty"!!) and think these people are just sick and shouldnt get "air time" for their music.  Presumably when their songs are played on the radio or albums sold in shops, a percentage of profits will go to them and I just think if Michael Jackson is found guilty then he shouldnt be receiving royalty payments from his music because he will be a convicted criminal. Perhaps any monies due to him through the sale/playing of his music should be put in trust for children. Even if he is found innocent, i dont think people will ever see him as the superstar he once was.

[kick3m0n]

I think his music is utter p1sh and couldn't care less if Inever hear anyo of it again.  I'm 33 and never once bought anything he put out.  Whether he's guilty or not - I don't know, I just hope the verdict accurately reflects what actually happened.

[FP]

Have never bought any Michael Jackson stuff either, although 'Thriller' was OK.  If it was someone I really liked and it was proved that they were guilty, I don't think I could listen to their music again.  It would spoil my enjoyment of it.

[flashpig]

Oscar Wilde was a convicted pervert but his plays and books and articles aren't banned. I hope we can just rule out whatever he might or might not have done in his personal/criminal life and appreciate his work like we can Wilde's. I was even made to read Wilde at school, although whether this will happen in music classes with Jacksons work in the future I can't say.

[pamnez]

What Oscar Wilde did was between two consenting adults.  People for Michael Jackson should ask themselves this question.  If it was proved that he did was he is accused of, would you still want him to have airtime if he did the same to your child?  I personally would want to see him off the face of the earth. 

[the.dr]

oscar wilde slept with a 14yr old boy....not and adult and i rather doubt consenting

[the.dr]

andy hughes! great answer my friend

[ursula62]

If you believe the biographers, Mozart was a complete and utter t*sspot / w@nker. It doesn't stop his stuff being played!

[flashpig]

pamnez, no I wouldn't be happy for this person to be about if it was my child, but I do not feel that MJ should have his whole work discredited just bcause of what he might, or might not have, done.

I wouldn't be so fame obsessed as to leave (neglect) my child, vunerable to the desires of a sexpest. He isn't some child-snatching, hang-around-in-parks pervert. But it doesn't matter to me anyway, you cannot just invalidate someones work because you do not approve of their private life.

This is just work, which I for one appreciate, and if it was removed then I feel I would be less happier for it (actually I probably wouldn't notice, more on principle) and as the.dr. says, it will deprive someone of the chance to gt to enjoy what is good, fun music.

What if someone at BT or whatever input your data onto their system and they were a pervert, should your name be removed and your service removed? If he was a doctor that saved my child I wouldn't want BUPA or the NHS to take back the work that he did.

[rod]

Gary Glitters music is no longer played (well I hope not). If M.J he is guilty his music should not be played as he will benefit from the royalties.

[the.dr]

any royalities he recieves wont benefit him...he is in millions and millionsof debt and he dosent recieve royalties from the amount of time his music is played!

[lillylampost]

Each time a record of his is played he gets royalties the same as each time the happy birthday song is sung on TV or radio he gets paid as he owns the copyright.