Music-wise, generally I prefer the music from Dangerous onwards. Looks-wise, pretty much any era. He's always gorgeous. Image-wise, ooh, bit harder, that one. Dangerous stage outfit, total work of art as already established by Hiker and me. However, Bad era stage outfit probably just takes it although it is a photo finish between those two. HWT - already dealt with this over on heresy thread, really don't wanna get into it again, lol.
Hair styles. How can one choose? Seriously, how? 1970's I've dealt with but once that's over with it's all good. OK, I'm going to commit. I'll go for the 1990's. Think about it. How freakin' amazing is that? BOW - beautiful. In The Closet - ooh! Give in to me - sigh! BOTDF - the French plait. OMG, the French plait! OK, he lost it with the short hair (really doesn't work for me) but, even then, it's only really YANA. His hair in TDCAU is gorgeous.
I think that's enough de-railing for today. Plus I now have to go and watch Give in to me. I haven't seen it since yesterday.
Aww well I'm glad that it spoke to you!! haha I was in my feelings this morning about Michael. I am always in my feelings about him, anymore. But I think when language escapes me I'm especially vulnerable to losing my mind over him because I can't properly express the experience I'm having. But I want to respond to some of your points!
I *totally* agree with you about how the style/image of the era can have an impact. First, I do tend to agree with you about the 70s. Though I love the style for what they were doing with it, I find it pretty distracting when I'm trying to watch content from the 70s. I think the style of the clothing, especially, kind of takes over the dancing and singing sometimes. However, I do think Michael was gorgeous during the Off the Wall era. Like, absolutely beautiful. And so so sweet and cute. But that's the thing I think people often forget - Michael pre-Thriller was honestly very young. (I mean, he was young during Thriller too, but you know what I mean). He was a teenager in the 70s. He was a brand new adult during OTW. He is absolutely beautiful and adorable, but so young. It's hard to see him as a sexy man during a time when he was very young, insecure, unsure of himself (despite being a phenom as a performer already)... he was very involved with his family still and kind of tied to a certain image. He hadn't come into himself yet. He
created himself with Thriller in a very intentional and beautiful way. Idk, sometimes I see debates among fans like, if you find him most attractive in Bad, or later in his life, you are somehow rejecting his "natural" appearance, but I don't agree with that at all. In fact, there's about a million ways I could respond to that claim, but I will stick with the relevant one here. If nothing else, Michael was not at his peak even maturity wise. He was still a young man. Too young to really to be regarded in that way for many of us, even if we think he was adorable.
Now when we get to Thriller, my *feelings* start to happen. I find him so so sexy during Thriller. HOWEVER, he was sexy in a "really nice, but also really cool boy in class I am in love with who will never know i"m in love with him and who I will fantasize about loving me back every day until I graduate'" kind of way -- not a "boy I need to immediately have sex with or else I will explode and die in the void" kind of way, which is how I feel about him in Bad lol. SO I guess the point I'm making is, as much as some fans may negatively perceive our attraction to his later days as somehow diminishing his natural beauty, I would say a lot of it, at least for me, is about witnessing his sexual, emotional, romantic maturity blossom before us. Does that make sense?
It's SO funny you mention hairstyles because, as everyone in the world now knows, I'm obsessed with his Bad-era curls. Sometimes I actually try to pinpoint why, on a physical level, I am SO obsessed with the late 80s and it always comes back to those curls. I just....God. I would marry those curls. I would throw myself onto a fire for those curls. I would give away all of my belongings and live destitute somewhere for those curls (thankfully none of this is a requirement for enjoying them/Michael would never allow for such a thing). My point is, I am overwhelmingly sexually attracted to his curls lol. It's like, my sexual orientation is 50% Michael Jackson's curly hair now. It's truly a disaster. But anyway, EVERYTIME I watch the In the Closet video I just desperately wish he had those curls. I'm actually not super crazy about his hair in that video. But I think it's because I can't let go of the curls lol. You see what I'm saying? I'm fixated. But honestly, I'm not sure I'd be alive to type any of this if he DID have those curls in the In the Closet video, as I would have suffocated on my own desire the first time I saw it, and never recovered. Sooo....there's that.
What was I saying?
The effect Michael has on people cannot just be external beauty. And I agree with the Bad era radiance. He is in late 20s there, still so full of life, so much to look forward to in the world. We have heard from him that he enjoyed being on stage performing (not the touring part, but actual being on stage part) and that shows. Also I think unlike many other celebrities he genuinely liked or appreciated the awards he got, and his fans of course. So when he is smiling, speaking, or thanking fans its heart felt and not fake (or he is a very convincing actor
).
Oh don't worry, we can never get too far from Michael's manhood and sexiness topic here even if we try. Let me add some flavour to this below.
I am totally with you here!
Music-wise, I am digging the Bad ear at the moment, also the unreleased stuff. Vocals are really strong. But this thread is all about looks. So lets get down to the Dangerous outfit first.
Every time I see him in it, I want to run my hands all over the soft gold fabric and his slim dancer's body lines and abs that are so accentuated by the outfit. I die whenever I see Siedah run her hand down his arm in IJCSLY.
Then I want to rip it off
. The HIStory outfit with it tightness and no underpants is obviously sexy, but Dangerous is subtly sexy. Don't know if that's what he was going for!! I know what I don't like about Bad era, its all the metal, its too much though as everything else he makes it work!. Like
@zinniabooklover said, we are talking photo finish here.
@Hiker and
@zinniabooklover I have to tell you both that I saw someone on Reddit a couple of days ago say that the Dangerous tours are "unwatchable" because of that outfit lol. I thought of you, Hiker, immediately because I knew you'd have so much to say to that LOL. I will say, you two have given me a lot to consider with that outfit. As you know, it's not my favorite. I find it kind of distracting in a way I don't love. But seeing you all appreciate it so much helps me to appreciate it. But then, it also might just be an aesthetic preference. I am not someone into buckles and chains in any regard, but on Michael in Bad OMG. I don't find it too much at all. I find it positively mesmerizing. Especially his belts. OMG his belts just emphasize how
rhythmic his thrusting is and that does all kinds of things to me. Ugh, I need to stop thinking about it... lol
Oh! And God yes his external beauty is so overwhelming in Bad. I think his late 20s/early 30s is so stunning in part because he is at that age where he was sort of naturally reaching sexual maturity. But I also think that joy radiating out of him was just.....God, who wouldn't want to be as close to him as possible during that time? He seemed so happy and so free. I don't think that's necessarily an age thing though, but rather this was the first time in his life he was fully independent from his family and fully representing himself, as himself, in the world. I mean, even with Thriller he did the Victory tour, instead of his own tour. This was the first that was all him. He had bought Neverland, he was developing a life completely separate of his family, and *probably* having the freedom to explore relationships more too.
OOOOOhhh and speaking of IJCSLY -- you all -- I swear to god he is *EXCITED* during the entire Wembley performance of that song. Like, the entire time. It is.... everything. I can't even talk about it. Let's move on.
@MacMandy90 I have no idea what you are trying to do to me with these pictures, but it is working. IS his neck the sexiest thing about him?!?! No, absolutely not. But MY GOD that first picture. jesus. I can hardly type...
And the hands....his hands are SO sexy... I stare at them all the time. HOW IS HE REAL?! I will never stop asking that question.
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and haha, my mom has been wanting to watch his videos lately too, and I have a dvd of his videos and I forgot about the beginning of YANA, and on the big screen tv with my mother watching! Haha!! 
I don’t think she noticed though 
Wait till you want Dangerous with us though. Dangerous is more about - I have found my place and I know I own the stage, so I am just going to relax and just be fabulous!! Its a different level of maturity.
