Let it die - he is dead....
I wonder where the moniker 'King of Pop' ever came from?
Butch
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I think he called himself that didn't he?
I'll Google it and find out......
WikiAnswers says:
"Michael Jackson was given the nickname by Elizabeth Taylor when she presented him with an award at the American Music Awards. She referred to him as the "King of Rock, Pop, and Soul." Later on, fans started calling him the "King of Pop," after which the media picked up on that as well."
King of Poop maybe.
Always hated his music...even Thriller doesn't do much for me.
I love The Eagles.
As for his lasting influence and how he changed music and all, let's see what I always hear on the radio. 25-40 years after these artists' apex on the charts, I still hear, quite often in the rotation: Beatles, Led Zep, Springsteen, U2, Mellencamp, even the occasional Elvis and Ole Blue Eyes. Same for jukebox music. I even hear gimmick songs like Big Butts and Whomp There It Is or Wild Thang more often than any MJ song. Which song would make a roomful of people chime in to sing along with - Thriller, or Pink Houses?
I'm not going to say he was nothing by any means. Old Jackson 5 stuff is amazing: the way that kid punched out a song was magic. His best singing went away when he started to shave, but he was an amazing dancer and showman long afterward. His pop music was like McCartney's - so-so, and the guy was living off the echo of his earlier fame, when he did capture lightning in a bottle. I'll give him his due, but stop far before deification.
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