When did Michael Jackson really become a freak?

I'm more interested in WTF happened to his nose?

It was October 14, 1987. I still cannot talk about it.

Looks like it was 1997:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/samir/unbelievable-photos-of-michael-jackson-over-the-ye

SDSU Aztec wrote:

Looks like it was 1997:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/samir/unbelievable-photos-of-michael-jackson-over-the-ye

From that link it looks like it started in 1980. In 79 he looked like he did in previous years. Than it looked like a change in 80 and it got progressivly worse.

From that link wrote:

SDSU Aztec wrote:

Looks like it was 1997:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/samir/unbelievable-photos-of-michael-jackson-over-the-ye

From that link it looks like it started in 1980. In 79 he looked like he did in previous years. Than it looked like a change in 80 and it got progressivly worse.

Definitely started having some stuff done around 1980, but the jump to looking alien was 97.

From the mid-1980s onward Jackson metamorphosed into whatever alien being he became. Until then he looked like a normal black guy who had a couple nose jobs but nothing else really noticeable.

No, it wasn't the 80s. He was still god in the 80s, even with his increasingly pale skin and increasingly narrow nose.

Bad ruled the 1980s as much as anything. Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan, and Mike Tyson.

"Jackson's 1987 album Bad produced the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles "I Just Can't Stop Loving You", "Bad", "The Way You Make Me Feel", "Man in the Mirror", and "Dirty Diana", becoming the first album to have five number-one singles in the nation."

The first real damage his image faced was 1993 with the first child sex abuse allegations, and Michael Jackson was so popular that the public mostly convinced themselves that the kid/kids were lying and Michael was the victim.

This song was 1995, and he was still on top of the world for the most part

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNJL6nfu__Q

2002 was when Michael jumped the shark, public image wise, when he dangled his child over a balcony. That's when everybody finally realized something was very wrong with this guy. But you'd be surprised, even today tens of millions of fans still swear that Michael Jackson never diddled kids, and that he was a nice guy.

In reality he was definitely a child molester, and his high pitched speaking voice was a sociopathic charm offensive for the public.

From what I understand his eccentricity was

a result of trauma from his father. Michael

Jackson definitely one of the icons of the

20th century, placed on the mantle with Sinatra.

That accumulation resulted in his fixation

with marriage to Lisa Marie Presley (Elvis's only daughter),

Elizabeth Taylor and Diana Ross ( who he considered more

of a mother figure), in effect he wanted to look like

them? Hence his nose. As far as the lighter skin was

a result of a common disorder, Vitiligo.

Michael Jackson a freak? No just a victim of circumstances.

Whoaa

It is not him becoming a freak. It is him becoming a serial homosexual pedophile. That is the most disturbing part. He paid one family $20 million after he molested their kid. Michael Jackson is about as bad as John Wayne Gacy was. Gacy murdered his victims. Michael just repeatedly molested them. Not sure which was worse.

Yeah I'm not sure why everyone seems to forget the guy was a pedophile. Louis CK is an animal for groping himself in front of women but Michael Jackson isn't for molesting multiple children? Weird effing world we live in.

This is the best Michael.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X-Mrc2l1d0

Scouts wrote:

Bad ruled the 1980s as much as anything. Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan, and Mike Tyson.

"Jackson's 1987 album Bad produced the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles "I Just Can't Stop Loving You", "Bad", "The Way You Make Me Feel", "Man in the Mirror", and "Dirty Diana", becoming the first album to have five number-one singles in the nation."

That album sold singles because of who Jackson was, not because the songs were any good. Only "Bad" has stood the test of time, and only on the coattails of Weird Al's parody. It's a good example of the MTV effect, where expensive videos could make garbage music popular.

When he got the chimpanzee?

Who knows?

Bad Wigins wrote:

That album sold singles because of who Jackson was, not because the songs were any good. Only "Bad" has stood the test of time, and only on the coattails of Weird Al's parody. It's a good example of the MTV effect, where expensive videos could make garbage music popular.

"The Way You Make Me Feel" is the best song on the album and certainly has stood the test of time.

Rod Temperton wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

That album sold singles because of who Jackson was, not because the songs were any good. Only "Bad" has stood the test of time, and only on the coattails of Weird Al's parody. It's a good example of the MTV effect, where expensive videos could make garbage music popular.

"The Way You Make Me Feel" is the best song on the album and certainly has stood the test of time.

The Tall Kenyan Theory moron is wrong again. Nice work, Gladwell.

Rod Temperton wrote:

"The Way You Make Me Feel" is the best song on the album and certainly has stood the test of time.

There aren't any good songs on the album, and no, it hasn't. When people think of 80's Jackson, they think of Thriller, Billie Jean, Beat it, and maybe We are the World.

When the classic rock radio plays Def Leppard, it's nearly always Rock of Ages or Photograph. Nothing else makes the cut. Hysteria sold more copies and had more hits than Pyromania, but they all sucked. It was all MTV marketing, just like "Bad."

Bad Wigins wrote:and only on the coattails of Weird Al's parody.

Nice shoutout to Weird Al. Let us all take a moment to appreciate him and his career, which has extended far above and beyond almost all of the people he has parodied.