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Post by russtcb on Dec 16, 2019 18:46:49 GMT
Yes, absolutely!! All MJ fans are welcome. I've said this on here before and I'll say it again, if any MJ fans happen to be near Detroit, you're always welcome to hit me up and stop by  If I’m ever in Detroit I’d love to hang out. Would love to visit the birthplace of Motown Records Hitsville U.S.A, and maybe bump into Sixto Rodriguez aka Sunger Man. And your vinyl collection! Thanks man. 😎😁 Absolutely! I take out of towers to Hitsville all the time. And of course, you're welcome to hang out and listen to records. Just shoot me a PM if you're ever gonna be in the area. I'm just about 20 minutes northwest of downtown, so Hitsville is about 15 minutes from my front door. |
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Post by aazzaabb on Dec 16, 2019 19:18:49 GMT
If I’m ever in Detroit I’d love to hang out. Would love to visit the birthplace of Motown Records Hitsville U.S.A, and maybe bump into Sixto Rodriguez aka Sunger Man. And your vinyl collection! Thanks man. 😎😁 Absolutely! I take out of towers to Hitsville all the time. And of course, you're welcome to hang out and listen to records. Just shoot me a PM if you're ever gonna be in the area. I'm just about 20 minutes northwest of downtown, so Hitsville is about 15 minutes from my front door. Thanks again mate. I’m a 30 minute drive from Blackpool. It’s sort of like Las Vegas. Not😭 |
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Post by ShadowDeeps on Dec 17, 2019 4:13:14 GMT
It seems Queen are the only legacy act in every list that beats him. Only. Not bad for whats gone on And Queen is only beating him since the Bohemian Rhapsody movie. For Queen this has been a year with very positive publicity and for MJ, with the the opposite. Considering that, the difference isn't huge either.
Queen’s YouTube channel still has less views overall than MJ’s (about six billion versus well over seven billion), and less subscribers too (over eleven million versus over fifteen million). To see how “successful” LN has been at “muting” MJ, the official Billie Jean music video (currently on its way to seven hundred and twenty million views in total), for an example, gained an additional two hundred million views between August 30th, 2018 and August 30th, 2019 going by the web archive, and has gained well over a hundred million views since the “documentary” itself was “released”: web.archive.org/web/20180830035447/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_XLOBDo_Yweb.archive.org/web/20190830040153/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_XLOBDo_YThis was well after Leaving Neverland aired, streamed, and flopped. I still see MJ videos on the channel and otherwise (on YT) amassing hundreds of thousands to millions of views within days (with 99.9% of the comments on YT being positive - it certainly wasn’t that way before he died! Not even several years back, for that matter...), and his numbers are still rising favorably on Spotify. His YT channel has gained millions of followers since LN. Nothing was able to stop MJ’s passing from being honored for a tenth time this year, nor his birthday from being celebrated again, or Thriller from being played and what not on Halloween nation wide and world wide. The mute MJ movement has been a complete failure. Leaving Neverland was a complete flop. And that’s saying something, seeing as how it was the most hyped movie regarding sex abuse allegations in the history of film, for six weeks straight, with an unprecedented PR machine afforded to it. They (the mass media, critics, etc) swore up and down, left and right, that it would be the end of MJ, and that it would change how everyone will think of MJ forever. 2 Bad for them (yes, pun intended), MJ still has the public’s support and that’s what counts the most at the end of the day. |
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Post by respect77 on Dec 17, 2019 8:22:17 GMT
Here's a reminder of how hard the media (in this case Billboard) tried to get MJ canceled.
It's obvious that this media campaign was orchestrated by HBO and Kew Media. The media also loves a "fall from grace" story- especially if it is about their favorite whipping boy, MJ. They also love a story they can use to virtue signal and use to write navel gazing BS articles about the tragedy of how "we all looked the other way because we like Billie Jean". If the narrative is dramatic or MeToo-compatible enough, who cares about truth, or even a balance in the reporting, right?
Billboard, Oprah & the rest of the media got ahead of themselves. Instead of waiting for whether there would indeed be a mass "cancellation" of MJ, they tried to lead it on and force it. It blew up in their face. Oprah got more cancelled than MJ. And Billboard is forced to acknowledge that nothing has changed as far as MJ's popularity goes. Two of his albums (Essential and Thriller) are on the year-end Billboard 200. Thriller is the #18 best selling album of the week as we speak. His streams went up, not down. He is in the Top 100 most watched artists on YT once again (the only other legacy act there are Queen). On YT MJ is ahead of the Beatles, Elton John (another one with a positive movie this year), Elvis etc. Not bad from someone who was supposedly "canceled", right? |
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Post by respect77 on Dec 18, 2019 6:07:29 GMT
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Post by respect77 on Dec 18, 2019 12:12:16 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2019 12:15:14 GMT
Christ. Thats fuckin unbelievable. I wouldnt have said this in April. Well done Michael fuckin Jackson |
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Post by respect77 on Dec 18, 2019 16:29:02 GMT
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Post by respect77 on Dec 20, 2019 17:18:18 GMT
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Post by ShadowDeeps on Dec 21, 2019 0:25:06 GMT
I recently attended a Christmas party where the DJ was playing venerable greats, among them being James Brown’s “I Feel Good”, Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance with Somebody Who Loves Me”, “I Will Always Love You”, and Michael Jackson’s “Bad” (the song), “Beat It”, “We Are The World”, and “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town” by The Jackson 5. Guess what? Everybody was especially elated when MJ’s music came on and cheered extra loud when Beat It was playing, joyously yelling “Michael Jackson!”. Not a single mention of that crapumentary or any disparaging remarks about MJ. So much for MJ’s posthumous reputation being “completely shattered” - LOL.
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Post by aazzaabb on Dec 22, 2019 23:16:30 GMT
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Post by Thriller on Dec 23, 2019 19:09:27 GMT
Oh wow, I missed his walk out music. Just skipped to the fight when I watched it. |
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Post by Thriller on Dec 23, 2019 20:34:27 GMT
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Post by russtcb on Dec 24, 2019 14:34:34 GMT
A couple of fun little things to mention: We went out for a friend's birthday last night and we started at a really crowded bar. I used the jukebox app to play The Way You Make Me Feel. It was barely into the bass line when I saw one of the bar tenders look up and run to the jukebox. I'll be honest and say I was worried he was gonna skip it or something. Instead, he played a song but I couldn't see what it was from where we were sitting. Anyway, TWYMMF ended and Who's Loving You started! I was shocked and the bartender yelled out "this is a bad ass Michael Jackson song!" Pretty cool little thing to have happen Second, I was just watching the local news and they went to a national package for the "Year In Entertainment". They covered seemingly everything that happened, including R Kelly but they made absolutely no mention of LN  |
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Post by aazzaabb on Dec 24, 2019 22:57:10 GMT
Oh wow, I missed his walk out music. Just skipped to the fight when I watched it. His walk out music is the best part! 😎👍🏼👑 |
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