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* [[Ascended Fanon]]: Jackson would often ''confirm'' the more ludicrous (and false) rumors about him. In fact, he ''started'' the rumors about him buying the Elephant Man's bones and sleeping in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber. He would later stop this when he realized just how damaging it was to his image, although it was too late to reverse the damage; also, he would never admit to starting/confirming the stories, choosing to blame it all on the media instead.
** He also approved [[Weird Al]]'s parodies and Alien Ant Farm's cover of "Smooth Criminal", among other things, because he did have a healthy sense of humor about his work. Yankovic and Jackson got along rather well -- not only did he allow Yankovic to parody his songs, but also to use the set for the "Bad" video for "Fat". To return the favor, Yankovic made a cameo in Jackson's "Liberian Girl" music video. This troper read an interview with [[Weird Al]] in the early nineties where Al said that Jackson liked his work and tried to get him to tour with him once (which Al didn't do because he was filming [[UHF (
*** MJ only denied an Al parody once -- "Snack All Night" for "Black Or White" -- and it wasn't a ''full'' refusal, he just asked Al not to put it on an album (he was fine with Al singing it at live shows instead.) as Jackson thought the message of the original song was too important to be parodied.
* [[Author Existence Failure]]: Just as he was about to put on ''[[Harsher in Hindsight|This Is It]]'', a massively hyped series of London concert tours and his first significant concert event in 10 years.
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* [[Executive Meddling]]: Among others, this was the reason:
** ''HIStory'' and ''Blood On The Dance Floor'' were released with other songs from older albums (a much criticized move), against Jackson's wishes.
** Sony cut the ''Invincible'' promotional effort short, although they claimed to have spent $20 million on it by then anyway. Jackson had informed Sony he would quit doing business with them as they meddled too much with his works....just before his album was about to hit the racks. ''Also'', he refused to do an U.S. concert tour to support it, took a long time to record it, and the costs of production totaled about $30 million. He probably assumed that two Madison Square Garden concerts/tributes to himself and a subsequent TV special edited together from them were enough, and they might have been if they hadn't been held on Sep. 7 and 10, 2001 -- just before [[The War
* [[Executive Veto]]:
** When releasing the ''Bad'' album, Michael Jackson wanted it to feature the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBv9me5amX4 "Streetwalker"] song instead of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nouY3gPAwWM "Another Part Of Me"], the latter which is considered by his fans to be much superior. "Streetwalker" was added to a 2003 re-release of ''Bad''.
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* [[Fan Nickname]]: Positive ones are "MJ" and "Bambi"... but the most infamous one is "Wacko Jacko", due to Michael's increasingly bizarre and erratic antics and appearance. Rumors say he ''created'' the name back when he was intentionally pulling odd stunts to get publicity, and gave it to the tabloids to use, but once he was getting in trouble for stuff he hadn't planned, he came to hate it.
* [[Forced Meme]]: "The King of Pop", which Jackson's handlers created for him at the turn of [[The Nineties]]. It was introduced to the public via an awards show speech Elizabeth Taylor gave (the full phrase was "The King of Pop, Rock, and Soul", but was subsequently shortened -- [[Elvis Presley]] has long held the "King of Rock and Roll" title and James Brown "The Godfather of Soul"), and they made it a condition of airing the "Black or White" video that Fox and MTV refer to him as such in promos for it. The 2012 oral history ''I Want My MTV'' confirms the stories that his handlers carefully monitored how often the VJs referred to him as "King of Pop". As the insistent use it in Jackson promotional materials piled up as his career declined, it became common for the media to refer to him as the "self-proclaimed King of Pop". Even Jermaine Jackson's announcement of Michael's death to the press included the meme: "My brother, legendary King of Pop Michael Jackson..." That said, there are fans who insist that Taylor came up with the nickname herself and that it isn't a forced meme.
* [[He Also Did]]: Played the Scarecrow in the 1970s urban ''[[
* [[Name's the Same]]: MJ shares the same as a writer of another song he did, "Blame it on the Boogie;" a rapper whose stage name was [[Oh No]] and various sports players.
** So basically, a ''lot'' of people have the name Michael Jackson!
** One of the writers of the Jackson 5 song shared the name with the actor for [[Barney and Friends
* [[One of Us]]: His [https://web.archive.org/web/20131222155417/http://www.pinsane2.com/pinorama/events/MJ_09/kr/michael_jackson_arcade_entry.html arcade machine collection] is a sight to behold.
** Not to mention the music video for "Scream". There is, in order of appearance: [[Cool Starship]], Anime clips, him and his sister Janet playing Pong...on a spaceship.
* [[So My Kids Can Watch]]: The stalling of his musical career led to what Akon said was a reason for ''This Is It'': Michael's kids had never seen his father performing.
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