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

I work in dance, every dance teacher I know uses mj songs. They're great songs!

MJ was probably a Paedophile. However, his music wasn't. Quite a few classical musicians were Nazis/ Imperialists. Where do you draw the line. ? I still like MJ's music and classical composers who I wouldn't want to spend time with.Back to MJ, I think it's beyond a doubt that the family was dysfunctional and abusive in many ways. You can't judge the music solely by what the person was like "in real life" . E.G. I loved Prince for ages then realised that he had serious flaws. Still wrote some great songs.

Pete Townshend is a pedophile. He was convicted for having child abuse images and was on the child sex register for five years.
I forgot to put Elvis on the list. If anyone reads about the Beatles they were specifically told to not go near underage girls because it was making other artists less popular. We still listen to Jerry Lee Lewis.

Neither was Jimmy Saville…

I watched both the Neverland,Documentaries and beleive them
But even if he wsent a paedophile he was certainly guilty of emotional abuse
He built those young boys up to beleive they were everything to him than dumped then when they hit puberty.

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I assume the other pp is referring to Pete Townshend's caution, from Operation Ore, whereby he'd accessed child abuse images as "research" into proving British banks profited from porn sites according to wiki/the citation relates to a Telegraph interview. He had nothing on his computer.
Have not read the case files so not sure how credible the defence was but he accepted the caution nonetheless and was on the sex offenders' list for five years (he admitted his credit card was used for a dodgy site).

For the children the music and dancing is just harmless fun.
By the time they're old enough to understand about Michael Jackson they'll either have forgotten it or will just have happy memories of dancing with their friends. Jackson will just be a long dead old man to them.

Well I used to watch Rolf Harris cartoon club...

Separate the music and the person. He was a very talented musician. He was also a weirdo.

Take beef at the parents who LET their kids stay overnight in his bed!

Ah one of them was called ‘Chase the Truth’. I thought it was interesting so good to watch things on balance.

Looks like it was on Amazon and You Tube…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson:_Chase_the_Truth

I like documentaries and found it interesting….given that MJ has died I was looking for some balance based on facts so enjoyed it.

Again though, where do you draw the line? Just musicians? Or artists? Or authors? Or actors? How far back do we go? I'm not entirely sure of the morality of a lot of the Tudors, do we rip their portraits off the walls and burn them? Or does 'it happened a long time ago' somehow mean that it doesn't count?

It's ridiculous. There is almost nobody in the public eye who hasn't done at least one questionable thing in their entire past. I think a degree of separation is necessary, otherwise we are left with nothing and no history either.

I mean where do we draw the line? It’s an established fact that Elvis dated Priscilla when she was 14 and he was 24.

The documentary had the opposite impact on me, after watching it I believed mj was innocent

@PansyPotter84 the allegations didn't stand up to scrutiny?! Have you watched those documentaries where those poor men bare their souls about the abuse that went on in Michael Jackson's bed?

I was a mega-fan - literally worshipped Michael Jackson. No-one with a degree of intelligence and common sense can watch the Finding Neverland stuff and walk away with anything but a complete conviction that the man was a paedophile.

I agree with the OP that it's not appropriate for a school to use his music in a performance. I personally can't derive any pleasure from listening to him any more but I get that some people can separate the art from the artist.

I think Savill case is bit different. Tbh I am surprised BBC is still standing... State and public funded peado fun is quite something...

They contain a hidden wavelength which targets and brainwashes children. Every “OWWW” and “HEE-HEEE” is an activation signal.

#satire

Never proven. Many, including Macauley Kulkin, have refuted the claims.
Personally I think he was a childlike asexual. His childhood was decimated by his parents. He did t have one. They made money from him and his siblings.
The parents of the children who used to go to Neverland wanted to gain from the situation. He just wanted friends.
As I say, never proven. And he was an incredible musician.

Quite if Kev down the road had sleepovers euth young boys and called it beautiful and natural i imagine the reaction would be very different.

I don’t like his music particularly but he was never actually convicted was he?

He was definitely a strange chap, but was anything ever actually proven?

YANBU

I feel the same about Jerry Lee Lewis - married his 13 year old cousin. Sick.

Hiding in plain sight

What was the other documentary called? Xx

@Ponoka7 What have the Who done?

The artist Eric Gill still has his work exhibited at the BBC, he had sex with his sister, daughters and family dog.
Oscar Wild had sex with young teenage boys
Picasso was a domestic abuser as was John Lennon

Abusers sadly are just everywhere,

Totally agree with you OP. I also turn off the radio if one of his songs come on and was horrified that my daughters dance show performed one of his songs, (thankfully not my daughters class).

Don’t be silly, she objects to listening to songs by a paedo but not to making some cash from them!

Neither was Jimmy Saville but I think we can all agree he was a prolific abuser of children and vulnerable adults.