Brittany Luce
speaker
7,920 appearances
259 recordings
13 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 7 Jul
Brittany Luce’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A couple weeks earlier, he declared his innocence in a satellite video from Neverland Ranch.
And there he described being humiliated by the investigation into the claims.
But that was a statement meant for the world.
His speech at the NAACP Awards was something way more specific.
It was MJ code-switching, preaching directly to the Black Choir, as it were.
So at this point, the crowd erupted into huge applause before he could even finish the sentence.
And then... Everyone is presumed to be innocent and totally innocent until they are charged with a crime and then convicted by a jury of their peers.
He was telling this audience, my struggle is our struggle.
Or put another way, I'm still Black.
This moment crystallized what Jackson had been working towards for much of the late 1980s and into the early 90s.
It took five years for his follow-up to Thriller, and by the time Bad came out in 1987, the music landscape had shifted.
Hip-hop and New Jack Swing were emerging as dominant expressions of Black culture.
That's Carvel Wallace, a culture critic.
Now, Carvel witnessed much of Jackson's ascension in real time and understood why his attempts to stay relevant continued to work, in spite of everything that was going on with him personally.
By the late 80s, Jackson's look had shifted too.
The cherubic brown kid that the world had first fallen in love with now resembled his dear friend and idol Elizabeth Taylor.
His nose looked a bit slimmer than it had on the thriller cover, his chin more chiseled, and his complexion was now completely white.
However, he always maintained that this was the result of having developed hyperpigmentation caused by the skin disorder vitiligo.
So he got there through bad, which was his attempt to remind the public that he was still down.
The title track has an 18-minute-long short film that's directed by Martin Scorsese, and Jackson plays Daryl, a student at an elite, predominantly white boarding school who returns home to the rough streets of New York City.
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