What made Michael go a different way?

LaToya was weird for awhile as well. I think The Jackson's are considered slightly eccentric but not as much. Plus Michael is the one who got most of the attention while the rest of them have been largely forgotten. But Janet and Randy did not have as much pressure as Michael did even though they started around the same age as him. Michael was essentially the reason they were so successful and he had to keep that up, also there have been a lot of people mentioning that he was sensitive and when he started to grow out of the cute stage and people's responses to him growing up really affected him.

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Nicholaevna already mentioned LaToya. She was really out there back in the day. But there's also Randy, who abused his first wife and spent time at a mental asylum. Jackie, Tito and Jermaine have also done questionable things. Jermaine especially managed to both have a child with another women, while he still was married to Hazel Gordy, AND have a child with Randy's ex-wife. And even Janet has had her scandals. Boobygate, anyone? The only two siblings, who seem to be "normal", are Rebbie and Marlon.

It's just that most of the other Jacksons aren't famous enough on their own to end up in the tabloids. And we must also remember, that Michael was the most sensitive of the brothers, plus that he had the most pressure on him. He was bound to take it the hardest.

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They're both half-siblings and cousins. But since half-sibling is a closer relation than cousin, I guess it's half-sibling. But yes, it seems a bit incestous to me as well.

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Make no mistake, kids with bad childhoods will suffer the consequences regardless of if people realize them or not. They will have severe repercussions from it. It's funn I hear all the time people say, "I grew up in a bad childhood but I never killed anyone" as if that's the only bad thing someone can do. Their are many ways that people act out and release their anger upon others.

The human mind in this society can only take so much pain. It will find ways to release that somehow and unless they go thru years of therapy and reversing what they learned, it's going to a brunt on others one way or another. Whether it's mentally abusing others by yelling at people constantly, or keeping it inside and then drinking regularly. It might be that the treat people like crap all the time. Or they may be physical bullies. One way or another it's coming out. It can't be totally repressed.

I've had friends that said the ole, "I had a bad childhood and I'm alright" while I sit there thinking, yeah your just an a-hole to almost everyone and everything gets you pissed off. An old lady drives slow in front of you and your going road rage acting as if your ready to shoot her. When I drive and someoen makes a mistake, I say hey it's okay no biggie we all make mistakes. No damage done.

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Things never went awry with Michael, they went awry with media coverage of every and anything they could find about Michael. All that negative press is bound to have its effects on soul, as they tried to diminish his image and slander his character before his truly erratic behavior. And he was still making music till the day he died. Obviously there was more pressure on Michael than the other siblings to be a star, because of his immense talent, creativity and ideas. Michael wasn't obsessed with anything except MUSIC, and any other element that you have ever heard of besides THE MUSIC was simply him channeling his own personal space, identity and individuality. Imagine how uncreative his videos and performance would be had he not had the tastes that he did. Besides, Michael is not the first person to ever want a chimp as a pet or have his own amusement park. Michael's insecurity about his nose and other features led to his plastic surgery episodes, much like any person who gets their nose done, boob job, face lift or nip/tuck. Of course those people are not strange to you, only Michael Jackson. The masks were a product of TOO MUCH FAME, much like the celebrities who wear hoods or sunglasses. They are not strange to you either, only Michael. People like yourself will only see the facade of Michael Jackson, judge and call him strange, rather than accept his originality as something that derived out of his creativity.

On another note, you may or may not be malicious in your sentiment, but at least respect the man as an amazing musician and innovative performer before you bring up his 'normalcy' and using dismissive terms like strange.


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He was forever trying to get his father to put him into the group. His father kept on pushing him away saying "You're too little"

Meanwhile he was the only one who had any sort of talent (Marlon couldn't do a turn even if he sold his soul to the devil)

When he was finally put into the group, they became "famous" gradually because of Michael. The more famous they got the more gigs they got. The more gigs they got the more money they got. The more they got, the less time they had to spend on being a child.

The chimps/other animals are a result of him being an adult throughout his childhood so now he has enough money to do whatever he wants, he wants to surround himself with all the things he "thinks" will make him happy.

The plastic surgery... His father was the biggest anti african american person ever. He was always putting the kids down on their looks and their skin tone. You are too black, your nose is too broad... Michael had this really unnatural need to please his father and he, deep down, decided that it was better to be white.

Yeah it was his father's initial fault but his mother did him (or anyone else for that matter) no favors when she wouldn't leave the dickhead. She would yell scream and cry whenever he would be on the warpath the whole time saying "No Maw Joe Jackson!!" But the only way to prove that she wanted no more is to get herself and the kids out of that environment and go to the police.

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Actress Susan Olsen was acquaintances with Michael Jackson. Olsen played Cindy on "The Brady Bunch". She said when she knew Michael back in the '70s and he was very real and down to earth. Michael was friends with the late Freddie Mercery from the band Queen. When asked about drifting apart from Michael, Mercury said Michael became very strange after "Thriller". Michael had been famous since he was a child. But superstardom as an adult solo artist blew that away and must have been a lot to deal with.

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