erm...most of the songs i listed WERE about the media....just because he doesn't use the WORD media or tabloid....they are about the media (aka...nosey people gettin in his business and making his life crap) i think the only song i mentioned that isn't MEDIA ..is D.S. ..
-Money (media doing anything for his money)
-They don't care about us...all the people that's attacked him...including the media!
..blah...i'm tired and crabby ... so i'm not gonna finish the list lol... anywho.. i'm sure you get my point...
as far as there not being any such thing as an 'old mike'....tell that to 99% of my friends who ONLY LIKE OLD MIKE! (hehe that rhymed!...and granted most of them that say that dont' even know his later stuff lol) .. but um..there definitely is a difference between off the wall and dangerous...i'm sorry..but there is! hence why we each have our own favorite album.... hence how michael has managed to flow with the times and hence how he's gotten so big and versitile..... Little Susie is nothing like Beat It...again, i'm sorry..but it just isn't...not to mention OLLLDD mike..as in ABC and 2-4-6-8 and I'll Be There.... you can't tell me that those songs sound the same as Scream or Morphine.
George Strait, a good ol' country singer, has a few songs about "making love"...such as this song called "Oh, What a Perfect Day"...which simply, and modestly gives the IDEA of "making love"...
then you get a rap artist talking about "bending you over, touch your toes, smack that" and other very colorful crap......
now...if people look at these songs..they'd realise the lyrics talk about the same thing, and they both have the theme of sex,...one just has a more up tempo toon....i know this is a dramatic analogy...but my point is.... THE SONGS ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!! ...just like michael's songs (though they could all still be dark and edgy..which even that i disagree with) ARE STILL TOTALLY DIFFERENT....so there IS such thing as old michael and new michael
Actually, no. Most of the songs you listed COULD be related to the media, or anyone else who has made Michael suffer, which includes numerous individuals who have no actual relation to the media. "Money", since you used it as an example, could be about the people that have extorted Michael using false claims, it could be about his family even. "This Time Around", that could be about the same thing. "They Don't Care About Us", that's related to several things, including society in general. You only
assume those songs are directed at the media. It's up to interpritation. It's the same as people who complain about Michael talking too much about his childhood when he's only written one song on the subject.
And yes, Michael is the same person. If you ever actually listen to his music, he often writes about being angry, or frustrated, or feeling used or alone, all the way back to when he actually started writing his own music. His songs from when he was a child don't count, he simply sang what he was told to. He's the same person inside. Those 99% of the people you talk to only
percieve Michael to be different, probably based on their shallow focus on his physical appearance. Just because they don't know about his later work doesn't mean he's a different person. How the heck does that even relate? They changed, he didn't. He's always written about his life experiences, from "Billie Jean", "WBSS" to "Dirty Diana" or "Leave Me Alone" to "Who Is It", "Will You Be There", "Heal The World", etc... It's always been a reflection of his life, whether litteral or figuritave or simply a reflection of his ideals and values.
Michael is the same person he was when he was in his 20s and earlier, he's just been through a whole heap of sometimes really tragic stuff. And of course that's given him things to write about, and like any true artist should, he's allowed his work to grow. But there is no "old Mike"/"New Mike". He's the same person inside, just with a lot more experiences. He's never been some goody-two-shoes and thank God, he isn't afraid to do what he want's and just repeat "OTW" over and over again. And anyone who views him as a different person is simply stuck on their own image of what they always wanted him to be, not who he is. It's nothing but their dream. And it's a ridiculous thing to say.
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