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*** For that matter, his unwillingness to stop spending so much of his time with young boys despite advisors' and friends' warnings that it looked bad would lead to his career's ultimate implosion at the [[Turn of the Millennium]].

** Just before his death, ''Q'' magazine published an article questioning whether or not his fragile health could take the strain of another tour.

* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]: As popular as he was in the United States, he was more popular in other countries (including Germany) due to the negative press being not as bad there. In the end, while he had tours for ''Dangerous'' and ''HIStory'' mounted, they did not include stops in the continental U.S.; he was planning for the ''Dangerous'' tour to reach the U.S., but then the first round of abuse allegations arrived. His ''This Is It'' tour was planned to be exclusively held at a single stadium in London.

* [[Glurge]]: He wrote a book called ''Dancing the Dream'' about, as a reviewer summarized: "a fanciful collection of poems, reflections and photographs that champions kids, endangered species, the homeless, AIDS victims and planet Earth." If that isn't Glurge I have no idea what is.

** ''HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I'' is another one. The second disc is pretty solid, with favorites such as "They Don't Care About Us", "Stranger in Moscow", "You Are Not Alone", "Earth Song" and the Janet Jackson collaboration "Scream". Unfortunately, to this day it's only available on CD bundled with a greatest hits album, which makes it significantly more expensive than Jackson's other albums and is probably part of why it didn't sell as well as hoped.

*** The CD was bundled with that greatest hits album with the intent of making it sell ''better'': the producers were targeting newcomers that didn't buy Michael Jackson's precedent albums and they wanted to take all their chances after his reputation was soiled by the child molestation case.

* [[Older Than They Think]]: Many people think Michael invented the moonwalk, but Jazz musicians like [[Cab Calloway]] were doing the move as "The Buzz" as far back as the 1920s.

* [[The Scrappy]]: ''No one'' likes [[Abusive Parents|Joe Jackson]].

* [[Sequel Displacement]]: As noted above, it's usually acknowledged that his solo career starts with ''Off the Wall'', which marks his departure from Motown to Epic Records.

* [[Tough Act to Follow]]: ''Thriller''.

* [[Uncanny Valley]]: Michael's plastic surgeries steadily pushed him into this.

* [[Visual Effects of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Visual Effects of Awesome]]: "Black or White" and "Remember the Time".

* [[Vocal Minority]]: His U.S. fanbase from 1994 onward, best summed up by the throngs that hung out around the courthouse during his 2005 trial and the small, stunned crowd which gathered outside the hospital where he died shortly after it was reported that he was there (and before it was announced he had a heart attack, was in a coma or dead).