However, there will now be an unavoidable uneasiness about enjoying something that has brought me pleasure for the past three and a half decades when I now know and can't un-know. I'd be lying if I said I'm not going to close my eyes and snap my fingers the next time ' Baby Be Mine' comes on The Groove, or that I'm going to press skip instead of chanting 'mama-say-mama-sa-mama-coosa' at the end of ' Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'', because quite simply, I doubt I have the will or the willingness to confer a muted status on art that has personal resonance far beyond the music. The only question left to wrestle with at this point is how to deal with my intimate, lifelong relationship with his catalog - Not to mention the fact that professionally, when I'm called to DJ a party, I'll have to check with the host to see if MJ is on the 'approved-to-play' list and then hope a protest doesn't erupt on the dance floor when I drop ' Working Day and Night.' Once I watch the documentary, Michael's criminal deviance, which I can now not look away from, will be inextricably linked to the music. Nevertheless, the exorcism of The Cosby Show, A Different World, and Fat Albert from my entertainment options was tough. But those were people whose work I only casually encountered through the TV.

Releases have featured on labels such as Compound. Kelly, it was tough to dismiss other icons from my childhood when they revealed themselves to be despicable - Bill Cosby, serial rapist Hulk Hogan, racist. Chrissi is one half of The Anxious and owner of Blackout Audio, with her long-term partner Mark Anxious. The days of reckoning have seemingly come all at once for a celebrity class who, insulated by fame and fortune, have gotten away with God knows what for who knows how long. When it came to Michael I bestowed upon myself a deniability, however implausible, given the utter, ever-increasing weirdness he thrust in our faces with each and every appearance, from showing up at the Grammy's in '84, carrying 13-year-old child actor Emmanuel Lewis as an accessory, to his '05 performance atop an SUV outside the courtroom where he was on trial for criminal sexual abuse, and all of the questionable moments in between.

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