You can say anything. I will still let myself imagine regardless.
You are right, we can't know for certain any of this. You are also free to come in and tease us for our outrageous interpretations or far fetchededness (lol @ my word).
Maybe a disclaimer could be added to the front to say that it's not fact in here but our thoughts...but that's probably why it's in Michealmania. I do understand that you are saying, there is a difference between discussing a fictional book and discussing a real person. So I guess we are gossiping? Though it isn't based on gossip or things people have said about him who know him. It's based on the music.
Maybe I could modify my posts for you Poe
They will now say "The person in this story I see from the music Michael sings" instead of "Michael" . Usually I use "MJ" rather than "Michael" when I talk of something I see as maybe a persona the celebrity part of him rather than the non-public part of him.
If it is fun for you to come and tease us, then come tease us ..lol. It's alright. You aren't doing any harm. I'll still be myself.
Do you think he would be embarrassed or upset that his lyrics are being looked at so seriously in relation to him?
I hope he would be flattered that his music has inspired all this. You've read some of it to see what it's inspired. If his music and performances is all an act, then he could be flattered that he is that believable and evokes this inspiration of imagination from people. If it is from his heart and does mean something to him like it seems, and comes from a personal place, then he could be flattered that he was able to express himself so well that we could all feel that in it.
Poe I act in theater so I know how much of a compliment it is when people think that I must be like my character on stage. It means I did a good job. If people want to speculate as to what I am like in person based on that character, they can, and if they are wrong, I can laugh at them being so wrong. If they see something in that character that they could see touched some part of me personally, because I could play it so well, and inferred some type of conclusion about my life based on that, and were correct, I think I would feel understood and in some way it would be healing, because it meant that it also touched another person who must have felt something similar to be able to recognize it in me.
Anyways, I LIKE when you add to the thread. I really like mens opinions EVEN if it so say "you silly girls and your dreams". So please don't feel you have to stay out of it and not respond. Sorry if I made you feel that way. I also do know that romance is something you understand, because I have read your poetry, and there must be some reason you keep coming back in here to read
Maybe you could add your interpretations of the songs without putting his name in it somehow. Just the story you see through the music. Doesn't matter who it's about. You have a story behind your poetry, whether is it about yourself, or about something you imagined or about someone else. If people were to interpret those, would you be offended or would you be interested to see what people got from it?