# If Michael Jackson's singing career is over ...

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 21, 2003, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-michael-jacksons-singing-career-is-over/214457 "2003-11-21T06:24:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satisfying_Andy_Licious)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-michael-jacksons-singing-career-is-over/214457/1 "2003-11-21T06:24:18Z")

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he could always become a priest.

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**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-michael-jacksons-singing-career-is-over/214457/2 "2003-11-21T06:55:07Z")

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That was wrong. But funny.

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**Author:** ![Dutch\_George](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dutch\_George](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dutch_George)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-michael-jacksons-singing-career-is-over/214457/3 "2003-11-21T08:34:39Z")

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I’m confused as to how anyone, child or adult, would want to get too close to the gentleman. His mug-shot came up on the TV news just now and by hell, it scared the bejasus out of me. So I suspect that after any exposure to him “in the flesh” more impressionable minds might never want to turn the lights off as long as they live…

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**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-michael-jacksons-singing-career-is-over/214457/4 "2003-11-21T15:01:14Z")

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His mug-shot was certainly one of the scariest things I’ve ever seen. I’m surprised he didn’t manage to shatter the camera lens.

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-michael-jacksons-singing-career-is-over/214457/5 "2003-11-21T15:46:22Z")

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MJ’s singing career _is_ over. It’s been over for a decade, at least. What you see on the news is simply a member of the Musical Undead, tottering through a ghost world with the rags of his career draped around his crumbling features…

I pity the man.

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**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-michael-jacksons-singing-career-is-over/214457/6 "2003-11-21T15:49:49Z")

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> \*Originally posted by green\_bladder \*  
> \*\*His mug-shot was certainly one of the scariest things I’ve ever seen. I’m surprised he didn’t manage to shatter the camera lens. \*\*

A cameraman had a heart attack and died covering this. I kid you not.  
[http://www.sacbee.com/state\_wire/story/7818103p-8758881c.html](http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/7818103p-8758881c.html)