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That is true. The mainstream news of their era didn't really get into celebrity gossip anyway like modern news, it was more serious. I doubt Walter Cronkite would have been talking about the Kardashian family if they had been around during his day. They wouldn't have become famous in the first place.
Bowie, I've learned, is not that guilty. The accusations were flighty. You are still right though, that they never get brought up.
Your earlier comment implied that Billboard is more legit than RS, when it's not much different. It does not matter if it is true or not. Billboard is not just read in the USA, the online version can be read anywhere. But most of the current charts can't be seen unless you pay to read it though. The public do not have to read Billboard or Rolling Stone at all. I've seen the Eagles thing reported on the TV show Entertainment Tonight, and also many regular news reports when Glenn Frey passed away. But it is also not true that Thriller has sold 104 million which was put on a hype sticker on a reissue of it. That was put out by Sony.Michael Jackson's iconic 'Thriller' is 36 today — and it's still the world's best-selling album
Michael Jackson released the iconic "Thriller" album on November 30, 1982. It's sold at least 66 million copies worldwide.
And they were wrong the whole time. But only from a certain point of view. In the limited world view of "America" as the whole world. Your point though?
It's confirmed 66 million worldwide, at least 51.2 have been certified as of late.
And no it did not. I said I read billboard more. Don't read into me. I'll read literally anything other than rolling stones if I bother with a music site at all. The only other thing I said was that billboard has a revolving door of biases while RS is consistently biased for the same oldies, mostly Bob Dylan and the "righteous" 60s.
Public coverage is absolutely the reason why those artists aren’t held to a similar standard. Therein lies my issue.
MJ coverage is majority of the time negative
It is because it involves children, it is an extra sensitive topic. The press is negative but at the same time there is often praise for him as well despite the allegations. I can’t think of anyone else who is still talked about in a positive light by millions of people after such allegations. This is of course because there was never any proof he did something wrong, people are on the fence so they speak in double tongue. They like his music but at the same feel worried about the allegations so you always get these double feelings. It is hard to deal with.
I think it's more that the allegations involve (white) male teens. Again, not many people cared about R. Kelly (at least until Me Too came along), probably because it was (black) teen girls. I've never seen it, but I know people who have watched that video when it was leaked and said it was Kelly and still continued to buy his CDs and he was still played a lot on the radio. A lot of artists continued to work with him. It's the same with the rock guys with young groupies, it was generally straight sex, not homosexual sex. Remember, in the USA at least, few if any males in the past were publicly "out" and that was usually in disco & dance music. It was likely no accident that rock fans in the 1970s called their anti-disco campaign "disco sucks". Elton John was married to a woman, Queen (the band) career in the USA pretty much ended when they did that music video in drag. Even Boy George claimed to be bisexual, until he later got a paternity suit.
So you just confirmed that they only care about crimes against white people, they only value music "made" by Caucasians, and they hated a "minority" genre and also anything even inherently gay.
There is also the fact that Michael Jackson had already been dead when the 'Leaving Neverland' documentary aired.
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Well, look at the Superbowl. Janet was blacklisted by Les Moonves, but nothing happened to Justin Timberlake. Justin became even more popular. Tevin Campbell & George Michael stopped getting airplay for their new music (in the USA) after their restroom arrests. If they were trying to pick up women instead of men, I doubt that would have happened, like Hugh Grant with a (black) female prostitute. All Hugh did was make an apology to the public on Jay Leno and it was all good. Comedians made jokes about it, but Hugh's career continued. Rick James was able to resurrect his career after getting out of prison, but George Michael couldn't after only getting arrested (in the USA). Although in George's case it didn't help that he spent years fighting Sony well before the restroom incident. Sony (Tommy Mattola) kinda sabotaged his career in the USA.
I don’t get the distinction. But what do I care! To hell with Rolling Stone Magazine.
Don't wanna talk about this topic too much, for obvious reasons, but that's not really how consent works. Ever heard of "statutory rape"? Point is that under a certain age, which depends on the jurisdiction, an individual legally cannot consent to sex.
Originality, influence, the depth of their catalog and musical legacy.......
It’s just so ridiculous that you cannot help but laugh
