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Michael Jackson was a paedophile. Why does the local school choose one of his songs for the kids to perform to?

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P0d · 05/07/2025 08:36

I also have a friend whose little boy has learnt all his moves and she puts MJ on for him to dance to.

I don’t understand, hearing his music makes me feel sick.

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Wynter25 · 05/07/2025 09:11

P0d · 05/07/2025 08:39

Well he slept in bed with little boys. I doubt if any of your adult male friends did this that you would say it was fine.

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I trust my male friends

SeaDragon17 · 05/07/2025 09:11

IggleBiggle · 05/07/2025 08:46

I sold my MJ albums and never listen to him now. And I LOVED his music. It was watching that documentary that did it for me.

I would probably not be irate about it, but I think you have a point!

Interesting though that you sold your albums. Why not destroy them if you felt so strongly that there was an ethical reason not to listen?

Ponoka7 · 05/07/2025 09:10

No need, the glitter band own it. Which is why it's still in the film 'four Christmases ' and the Joker.
OP the list is endless, Bowie, the Stones, the Who, then there's the art work and statues. Then there's our royals, which if we can ignore the hypocrisy of them, we can ignore anything.

Internaut · 05/07/2025 09:10

P0d · 05/07/2025 08:39

But that child will grow up and realise mummy was making him dance to paedo songs

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Taking the songs on their own, what exactly is it about them that makes them paedophile?

LlynTegid · 05/07/2025 09:09

You have a valid point OP. Learning a dance to a song does require acceptance of the artist in a way that listening to the song on radio does not.

K0OLA1D · 05/07/2025 09:09

P0d · 05/07/2025 09:06

I honestly cringed watching the kids on stage dancing around to a paedophiles songs. Wouldn’t have let them dance to Lost Prophets or Gary Glitter.

not convicted? Fuck off
95% of rapists don’t get convicted either

This is what I mean. Lost prophets is a band that is NEVER played anywhere now. You'd never go to a rock bar and hear a LP song ever again. And they were huge back in the 00s scene

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P0d · 05/07/2025 09:09

LBFseBrom · 05/07/2025 09:07

We don't know he was a paedophile.

He had books and magazines of naked boys in his room. He slept with children in his bed.

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Boomer55 · 05/07/2025 09:08

A grown man grooming small boys with a playground and then taking them into his bed is a paedophile 🤷‍♀️

Grim.

The fact he didn’t get convicted had more to do with race obsessed juries than anything else.

gattocattivo · 05/07/2025 09:08

P0d · 05/07/2025 08:58

Using drugs is really not comparable ffs

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Ok, clearly children being trafficked, sexually assaulted and murdered (all of which happens as a direct result of production and dealing of illegal drugs) doesn’t bother you.

thanks for clarifying.

gamerchick · 05/07/2025 09:08

P0d · 05/07/2025 08:39

But that child will grow up and realise mummy was making him dance to paedo songs

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I've never been able to make a kid dance.

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P0d · 05/07/2025 09:08

LBFseBrom · 05/07/2025 09:07

We don't know he was a paedophile.

Seriously?

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LBFseBrom · 05/07/2025 09:07

We don't know he was a paedophile.

ColinOfficeTrolley · 05/07/2025 09:07

Lol at calling MJ 'a tad eccentric'. He was a hiding in plain sight peado.

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P0d · 05/07/2025 09:06

I honestly cringed watching the kids on stage dancing around to a paedophiles songs. Wouldn’t have let them dance to Lost Prophets or Gary Glitter.

not convicted? Fuck off
95% of rapists don’t get convicted either

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ThatCyanCat · 05/07/2025 09:06

Roald Dahl was an antisemite.

Dita73 · 05/07/2025 09:05

Maybe I just find it easier to separate the artist from the music. When I hear songs they remind me of certain things which is probably what I like more than the song. A nostalgic thing. Having said that I love Woody Allen’s films and I still watch them. I can’t say the first thing I think of when I watch Annie Hall is “pervert”

Whatafustercluck · 05/07/2025 09:04

He was never convicted. And many still fall for that whole "he was too much of a child himself to do that" facade. There is a hard core of his fans who, even if he had been convicted, would still believe it was a conspiracy.

I personally believe he was one, and I agree that there's enough controversy around him to make it a questionable choice for children to perform one of his songs.

But there are artists (authors, musicians, painters etc) throughout history who were surrounded by controversy, or had questionable morals and we still read, listen to and look at their art.

WonderingWanda · 05/07/2025 09:04

I was a huge fan of MJ growing up but the allegations and his increasingly odd behaviour before he died really soured my opinions and therefore his music. However, I do sometimes hear his music on the radio and sing along and honestly if my kids danced to it it wouldn't matter, he is entirely irrelevant to them.

WhereOnEarthIsMyPlanet · 05/07/2025 09:03

P0d · 05/07/2025 08:57

But nobody doubts that he slept in bed with young boys. If your anyone else did that would you think it was innocent?
I find it so weird that people can’t see it.
why are Saville and Glitter demonised but MJ is still some God. He wasn’t convicted because he was one of the richest and most famous people alive.

I don’t think he was ‘some God’. I think he was a very fucked up man who (probably) did some very fucked up things.
I don’t think any child is going to be harmed by prancing around to a Michael Jackson song though.

RichardOsmanTheSecond · 05/07/2025 09:03

The parents of the kids accepted a pay off which meant that a lot of fans decided they weren't telling the truth. In reality is was probably more that, even if they had a confession from MJ himself, his lawyers would have made it impossible for normal families to pursue legal action so this was the best option for them.

NooNakedJacuzziness · 05/07/2025 09:01

I really wish someone else would record a new version of Rock n Roll part 1(?) as that is an absolute banger of a tune

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P0d · 05/07/2025 09:01

I definitely can’t separate it. Disgusting man

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K0OLA1D · 05/07/2025 08:59

BunfightBetty · 05/07/2025 08:58

It’s just music, isn’t it. And he’s dead, so won’t benefit from the royalties.

We don’t need to make some sort m virtue signal to the world in our choice of music to listen to, or what films we watch, or which novels we read. None of us are that important, anyway!

Separate the art from the artist. Or we’ll be down to about four singers we can listen to.

It really isn't always possible to separate art from artist

BunfightBetty · 05/07/2025 08:58

It’s just music, isn’t it. And he’s dead, so won’t benefit from the royalties.

We don’t need to make some sort m virtue signal to the world in our choice of music to listen to, or what films we watch, or which novels we read. None of us are that important, anyway!

Separate the art from the artist. Or we’ll be down to about four singers we can listen to.

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P0d · 05/07/2025 08:58

gattocattivo · 05/07/2025 08:57

What about all the musicians and performers who have used drugs and therefore contribute to the trafficking/murder/gang warfare/exploitation of children which directly results from production and dealing of illegal drugs?

do you listen to any music OP?

Using drugs is really not comparable ffs

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