Black Eyed Peas - the 21st century Michael Jackson?

Their songs are all hits, just like MJ.

Their songs are all hits, just like MJ.

Their songs are all hits, just like MJ.

They have not released anything.

I Gotta Feeling
Where is the Love?
Just Can't Get Enough
Don't Stop the Party
Rock That Body
My Humps
Boom Boom Pow
The Time (Dirty Bit)

Those 8 songs could easily equal any 8 of MJ's songs.

Their songs are all hits, just like MJ.

kanye west is today's MJ

hated the fact that he was black and had unhealthy relationships with children. I'm not saying he was a paedophile, before all your crazy MJ fans attack, but he was a grown man that had sleepovers and slept in the same bed as children, that is in no way normal. If Bob from down the road was found out to be doing that, regardless of the fact that he never touched them sexually, people would be gunning for blood but because MJ did it and he can sing that makes it okay. MJ's legacy is everything that is wrong with today's celebrity culture.

1) hated the fact that he was black.

It should be his freedom to hate whatever he wants about himself.
I have ginger hair. I don't intrinsically hate it although I accept that it can tend to look greater on girls. However, childish gingerism (from supposed adults) against people such as Mick Hucknall makes me sick to my soul (ginger haired people can have souls).

There's nothing intrinsically superior about white pigments than blacker pigments.
And black singers were certainly not unusual in pop/rock.
But those black singers tended to need either exceptional talent, way above that required by most white people, exceptional handsomeness or exceptional support to ever have the confidence to know it would be worth it to put themselves on the public stage rather than sing in their bedroom. Marvin Gaye for instance - legend.
So because of the general unlikeliness of it happening for anyone who was black, MJ will have easily come round to the idea in his own mind that white skin- white soul a la David Bowie - would make him the 'perfect' package to most people. And truth is, he was still very popular and famous with young people through Bad and up to point of releasing Dangerous, after which he was best known for Earth Song, lesser known 'incidental-style music such as Stranger in Moscow and remixes. So having whiter skin did him no harm with younger people and, in fact, I think that it is more racist to deny him the right to choose whatever shade of skin he wanted. 'It don't matter if you're black or white' but he'd still like the choice. Just like people like the choice as to what colour of car to ride or what shape of nose to have if they have cosmetic surgery.
If more people close to him had shown him unconditional love he probably wouldn't have felt the need to think about such things. But the world was literally 'crazy' about him- either for him or against him. Unless he became a total recluse, that craziness HAD to leak in to him. It wasn't his fault - it was the world and its media analysing the motivation s of a sensitive man as if he was just like any other bloke. If he was just like any other bloke he wouldn't have made all those great songs so he needs to be given a break for doing some things differently.

2) unhealthy relationships with children.

Unhealthy for who? Demonstrate how his relationships have had any terrible effects.

Jordy Chandler? Many reports said he lied about certain aspects. He got 10s of millions without any liability accepted.
And, as unfashionable as this view may be, people's puberty hits at 13. That's when nature has decided that people are of sexual or reproductive interest. And it explains why some countries have age of consents of 12 or so. Now, the reason we may have ages of consent of 16 in this country is that we think that 13 year olds can't properly weight up disadvantages to sexual interest- plus probably that it might harm their usefulness to the world of work. But that's just adult bias that has no interest in the preferences of the pubescent who, in fact far earlier than that age, might have had a clear idea of their sexual and intellectual interests in life. If there was no consent at all that would be bad. but of course there would be some form of grooming if it happened - just like there would be in some relationships between older (but not necessarily more 'mature' ) people.

3) 'he was a grown man that had sleepovers and slept in the same bed as children, that is in no way normal'

Not you but to MJ it would not be normal to spend your life like you- not writing great pop songs, not hanging out with people so cool and talented that they get invited to The White House, and instead being preoccupied with hating people who have different interests.

He loved children because of his own innocence. Children could not easily take advantage of him whereas adults could. He was attracted to innocence because was innocent himself. If innocent and innocent have some kind of (non-penetrative) relationship then how could it be anything except innocent?

I accept it's difficult for most people it understand. But once it was difficult for most people to understand why we should not hang people without a trial as well.
Modern day types of witch trials are happening every day. Unfortunately for MJ, he experienced some of that. God bless him.

Agree with Vixen. People need to take the nostalgia glasses off.

Justin Timberlake > MJ

If I told you that I knew a drug addict that had kids round to his house for sleepovers that would not sit comfortable with the majority of people. Yet because he could sing and dance it was okay.