# Can you still enjoy Michael Jackson’s music? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [July 2, 2024, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-still-enjoy-michael-jackson-s-music/1003638 "2024-07-02T15:49:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 87
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-still-enjoy-michael-jackson-s-music/1003638/87 "2024-07-04T16:47:29Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > A cover band or musician is only smart to learn some pop. There’s whole generations who love it. I don’t fucking care. They can love it, I don’t have to. Yes, you can make money in a cover band. I prefer not to, and fortunately I have enough other marketable skills that I don’t have to. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zoYo3sUMUn8/maxresdefault.jpg "Thelonious Monster - Joke Song") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoYo3sUMUn8) > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > It might make the paychecks come more often. I’d have to be in an _amazingly_ successful cover band to match my current paycheck. So, no. > [@Stoid](#): > > That’s a silly statement. If it was all due to marketing you could market anybody and make a bazillion dollars marketing anything and you cannot do that. A huge number of people wish you could. It’s not a silly statement. The guy was marketed like no one else. He was basically marketed from birth, and was actually good at participating in his own marketing. A huge number of people wish they had the money and time to market themselves the way Jackson was. Jackson produced generic pop songs. The only thing that makes that record actually stand out is the marketing, such as the videos. > [@Stoid](#): > > If marketing was all it took to make something successful, there would be no such thing as box office bombs costing tens of millions of dollars in marketing. Yep, if the record was absolute crap, it would have bombed no matter how much they put into the marketing. This was an average record that had a person who was very skilled at marketing participating in it’s creation and media push. Besides, I’m not talking about profit. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-still-enjoy-michael-jackson-s-music/1003638)._