"There was all these pictures of him, and the nose had fallen off, and the white face, and the ghoulishness.But then I just wanted to say, I see through that. I see through that, he was probably quite a nice guy.”
That's the late great Poly Styrene discussing Michael jackson and her video for "Ghoulish" off her equally great Indigo Generation.
MJ was a deeply disturbed man, though absolutely a pop genius. And he became what he admired: he became the elephant.
I find compassion for him difficult. Even from what we know…. people use doners all the time, but for both parents?
Still, you can understand why Poly would find him appealing in some ways. if you listen to Brooke Shield's eulogy I do think you get a vision of the boy who got stuck between child and mahood.
Here is the video