Old heads how did y'all react to MICHAEL JACKSON TURNING WHITE?

[Micky Mikey]

nikka turned into a pawg before our very eyes

 

[GMoney]

This board really skews younger

Anyway, without getting into my own personal feelings or what folks were thinking. The timeline of the color change discussion is like this:

1986 - Grammy Awards - The is the first time most people noticed/remarked on Michael looking lighter. Captain EO gives people a better look later that year

1987 - Bad cover/video - Lighter and awful chin. His appearance looks drastic but before this, there are already stories in the tabloids that Michael is a recluse.

1989 - Aresnio appearance - Michael is no longer the Bad lightskin era and is closer to white.

1991 - Black or White premieres on Fox and Michael is basically the same pale white color he is for the rest of his life minus a few surgeries later.

 

[zayk35]

Word ..Mike is very interesting..imma be doing another thread this time about the fukkery behind the Victory tour.

But Mike didn't even wanna go on the tour nor did he drink Pepsi was pressured into the tour by his mom and then he does this Pepsi commercial and gets his scalp burned starting his painkiller habit

Damn near my whole family attended the Victory tour stop in Dallas in 84. I was six and I was more into Prince, the Dallas Cowboys, and Mr. T. So I was more happy just to be at Texas stadium and while pretty much 60000 ppl had on Jackson gear. I proudly displayed my brand new Mr. T shirt

 

[Pseudonym]

This board really skews younger

Anyway, without getting into my own personal feelings or what folks were thinking. The timeline of the color change discussion is like this:

1986 - Grammy Awards - The first time most people noticed/remarked on Michael looking lighter. Captain EO gives people a better look later that year

1987 - Bad cover/video - Lighter and awful chin. His appearance look drastic but before this there are already stories in the tabloids that Michael is recluse.

1989 - Aresnio appearance - Michael is no longer the Bad lightskin era and is closer to white.

1991 - Black or White premieres on Fox and Michael is basically the same pale white color he is for the rest of his life minus a few surgeries later.

Adding a visual

 

[Raw Lyrics]

It wasn't a drastic Black to White change overnight. It was gradual from about 85 to 1992. I remember it being jarring when he released Black or White.

But it was starting to get really noticeable a few years earlier, during the Bad album.

 

[Azul]

seems that people debate whether mike bleached his skin or if he had vitiligo
why can't it be both?

Chemical-induced Vitiligo
https://www.umassmed.edu/vitiligo/blog/blog-posts1/2014/11/chemicals-can-cause-vitiligo-and-also-make-it-worse/#:~:text=The answer is yes, as,in rubber and other products).

mike was already doing things to achieve a fairer look way before the skin thing
maybe he was trying to look like the debarges (who were dating his sisters)
and things just got out of hand due to misuse of the products

reminds me of a quote from rolling stone back in the day (1992)

this was notably, before the oprah interview...

There are pics with his vitiligo patches from the 70s/early 80s

 

[Azul]

I think it was a big mistake to wait years to discuss it in public

 

[Art Barr]

boycott
dropped the ban bammer.



art barr

 

[null]

never really took much notice until i got older and the comedians started talking about it. then when i got old enough and realized the possible significance i was like . blame that on growing up in a superficially equal part of the UK.

the poorest goat penniless herder in Addis Ababa (a land of free minds), is freer in his mind and more at peace with how he looks than one of the richest, most successful, most worshiped popular performers ever was with how he looked.

that just goes to show the magnitude of what has gone on on this planet .

 

[Greenhornet]

It didnt completely matter because he was still killing it musically

but people kept bringing it up over and over

 

[TEH]

Old heads laughed at him. Don’t get it twisted.

 

[Luke Cage]

Born in 82......Mike was such a superstar...no one cared....if anything it added to his his celebrity as wacko jacko

I remember this being a nickname cacs loved to use for him.

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

The tragic and ironic thing is that two of the three things that made him "look white" were coincidental and out of his control. First the vitiligo and then the Pepsi accident that left him permanently bald/scarred forcing him to wear those wigs. The third thing is the plastic surgery but without the other two he would basically look like the rest of his family with their work done.

Yea Randy had work done after a car accident I believe. Him and Mike looked alot like each other post Off The Wall .

 

[datnigDASTARDLY]

didn’t care

ppl might’ve laughed

I remember a lot of jokes about him wanting to be white

but there was no social media around to gather a pulse on how ppl felt or to make it a matter of “national crisis”

Basically this.

Mike what just that weird incredibly talented dude that wanted to be white. The jokes wrote themselves but that’s as far as it went, you simply couldn’t deny he was the goat.

a meme before memes

 

[lurker emeritus]

There are pics with his vitiligo patches from the 70s/early 80s

1st of all, don't look at me like that
2nd, link?
and not from some crazy, obsessed fansite.

cause i was also told on here that mike used to rock a five o'clock shadow

Spoiler: :mjlol:

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/micheal-jackson-with-a-5-oclock-shadow.793880/

these yet to be seen photos with "spots" could be hot spots, the result of camera glare/flash

according to undoctored photos, mike was dark up until/around the thriller video/AMAs, which was late 83/early 84
of course he had the accident, then he started to look weird during the victory tour on (84)

Anyway, without getting into my own personal feelings or what folks were thinking. The timeline of the color change discussion is like this:

1986 - Grammy Awards - The is the first time most people noticed/remarked on Michael looking lighter. Captain EO gives people a better look later that year

agreed as far as public pronouncements
but the whispers started happening the year before
we are the world (1985)

nelson george was the 1st i saw to speak on his transformation, so to speak