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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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?

I trust my male friends

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

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

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).

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,

@Ponoka7 What have the Who done?

What was the other documentary called? Xx

YANBU

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

Hiding in plain sight

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?

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.

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.

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

#satire

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

@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.

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

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.

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.