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

[P0d]

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.

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.

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!

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.

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).

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.

3

Neither was Jimmy Saville…

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.

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.

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

His impact on culture was so profound and so amazing that it is impossible to erase it from our memories, our hearts. The only thing we can do (and I really try) is to separate the artist from the art.

Also, he wasn’t solely responsible for the brilliance of those albums. Quincy Jones produced Off the Wall and was therefore responsible for its iconic sound. I don’t want to erase Quincy Jones.

However I get where you are coming from, Op. And while I might personally enjoy MJ’s work I don’t think I could create a dance to his work to be performed by young people. That would be rank, I feel. No wonder you felt sick.

Pearl clutching is strong this morning!

Gandhi used to sleep with his naked nieces to test his celibacy.

Yeah I thought Pete Townsend but Roger daltrey shouldn't have his name associated by naming the who.
Thanks for replying.

Absolutely not condoning Elvis and all the other famous musicians that slept with young girls
But some of the boys MJ was allegedly abusing were as young as five.

What you say about The Beatles is interesting because people always say that people thought differently about abuse in those days. Your post suggests that isn’t true.

The Gaurdian had a good article on this last year (not just MJ).

If you start judging people based on today's standards then you will quickly find your pool of "acceptable" media is very small indeed...

People saying the Leaving Neverland allegations were 'debunked' can I ask what they mean by this? Not being goady, I'm genuinely curious. I know they didn't win their case in court, but proving allegations of this nature legally is very difficult. To me the men's stories seemed very compelling but I'm open to evidence to the contrary.

I don't think it was ever acceptable to sleep with small children that were not related to you.

I agree OP. Why is “divorcing the artist from the art” only applied in some instances?

The evidence points to extortion rather than paedophilia.

So I didn't believe this could be true

Until I realise I couldn't even remember any Lostprophets songs and they were a big part of me growing up.

But Ian whats-his-name was also convicted and it involved babies which may have had an effect

Doesn’t adidas have some connection to the nazi party?

I think a lot of people here may be playing devil’s advocate. Of course it’s alright to feel discomfort about hearing Michael Jackson’s music played. It’s natural to feel conflicted about it, as you on the one hand enjoy it/it’s redolent of your youth whilst you also know what people have said he was doing in his private time.

I find it really jarring when his songs come on eg Radio 2. It's clear that he was a paedophile. I don't want to hear his music. I turn it off when it comes on. It really surprises me that it is routinely played by the BBC.