The singer’s estate has denied the allegations and strongly condemned Reed’s film, Leaving Neverland; it has also filed a US$100-mil lawsuit against HBO.
“You can’t touch me ‘cause I’m untouchable,” Michael Jackson sang on his last real studio album, and for years that appeared to be true.in 2001, he’d spent nearly a decade dodging suspicions of child sexual abuse.
, whose influence can still be heard today – the album topped the Billboard 200 and was certified for double-platinum sales. The singer’s estate has denied the allegations and strongly condemned Reed’s film; it has also filed a US$100-mil lawsuit against HBO, which the estate accuses of violating a nondisparagement agreement.
But who can’t relate to the idea of being dazzled by Jackson’s talent? As a singer and a dancer and a songwriter, he synthesised the sounds and attitudes of soul and pop to create a new American music that even now, 40 years after Off The Wall, feels revolutionary.
But for Jackson, the question is also an aesthetic one: How do we hear his music outside the framework of his untouchability?
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