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I think Michael is an extremely talented artist. When I first was a DJ at The Mudd Club (1980) I featured Michael Jackson. Believe it or not it was a scandal at the time. The Mudd Club was the trendy "Punk" club and Michael Jackson definately did NOT fit the mold. Playing Disco music (read: black music) at the time was not cool at "Punk" venues like CBGB's, Max's Kansas City, or The Mudd. It was both too "Ghetto" and too "Studio 54". But I LOVED Michael's music and stuck by my guns and played him fiercly. I always saw him as more than just a pop star, I saw him as an "artist" (as in Museum of Modern Art). Even then I thought he was special and tuned into some artistic wavelength that we couldn't see yet. I went to bat for him countless times in all-night "art" discussions that people actually had back then. I even had a bottle thrown at me once for playing his music. I was sort of "the Michael Jackson guy". Of course I was right and a few years later Michael became the staple of EVERY East Village DJ.
(I told you so!)
I still think he is out there as an artist paving the way. He is doing the same thing Amanda Lepore is. The body modification thing. He just gets slack for it because he is still so entrenched in the "Walt Disney American Kiddie World" that Amanda has nothing to do with. I also think he is Totally insane and will end up a tragic figure. I don't see any way around that. After reading every book on Michael (including Latoya's brilliant autobiography) I now see that Michael never had a chance. His parents are THE SICKEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD!! Especially the father. When Michael was a little kid, for example, and on the road he used to try and sleep with his head in a pillow while his brothers and father fucked women in the same bed as him. And the mother, a Jehova Whitness, would tell him how they were all going to hell etc. The poor kid never had a chance. I really feel sorry for his kids. They also don't have a chance in the world.
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