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[anthonyeaston.livejournal.com]

i am in the middle of writing about this, among his other 90 works. three thots, please correct:

a) is the 90s work the last pop stuff that has not been uncovered, and critically discoursed aboot?
b) is this b/c it is both epic and earnest, and people still do not believe in either.
c) it is not nearly as weird/personal/pure as for ex. childhood

(what do we make of childhood, btw)

[koganbot]

It is as weird and personal as anything.

Dangerous was plenty discoursed about (for its relation to new jack swing, among other things), even if subsequent MJ stuff* was unfairly overlooked.

is this b/c it is both epic and earnest, and people still do not believe in either

The peeps like Epic and Earnest, even if rock critics are skeptical about Michael doing it (as opposed to Springsteen doing it). But Michael was doing plenty other stuff in the '90s and '00s too, from stuff that was almost experimental in its spareness to the hard rocking to the lacerating.

*which went into the '00s, I say as one of the two people in the world to have favorably reviewed Invincible

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i'm in the middle of writing an obit tribute to a friend i argued with a LOT back in the day, and have found it turning into an argument with myself about m.jackson: thinking about this (and how much i want to go with it) makes me wonder the degree to which people avoided talking about jackson because they felt that the "show" had metastasized to encompasses every aspect of his life, and they were waiting till the show ended before discussion any specific bits of it (such as this or that LP released at some moment during the "show")