Brittany Luce

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Pop Culture Happy Hour · The many narratives of Michael Jackson · 23 Apr 2026 podcast

I like I don't remember having to take all of those steps.

I think I was much more ready to accept that he may have been a predator from the very first offhand mention of like, oh, you know, he was touching them kids.

I was like, oh, damn.

OK.

But maybe it's just accepted by them and a lot of people, really.

as an asterisk, a matter-of-fact piece of his legacy.

There's nothing in Leaving Neverland that I feel like I didn't hear in barbershops or at Thanksgiving when Michael was brought up.

So speaking of Leaving Neverland, it's pretty much all but disappeared, faded into the

The Jackson estate sued HBO for breach of contract on the basis of a non-disparagement clause in a deal to air one of Jackson's concerts in 1992.

Now, there were some reports that a settlement was reached and HBO agreed to permanently remove Leaving Neverland from its platforms in the U.S.

As recently as February 2026, new child abuse allegations surfaced against Jackson, though they've hardly made a dent in the media landscape.

The reality is, after the world finished collectively mourning his shocking death, the diehard fans kept being diehard fans while his music kept existing in the culture.

But many other people just moved on.

A documentary coming nearly a decade after he died may have come too late and felt redundant.

But also, leaving Neverland couldn't withstand the messiness of the internet.

Again, this is Rodney Carmichael.

Also, never underestimate the general public's being desensitized to and dismissive of abuse.

Here's Soraya Nadia McDonald again.

I think part of the reason why we keep seeing this sort of highly curated and aggrandizing memorials of people, whether they be cinematic or otherwise, is because I think we actually live in a very violent country, a country that normalizes abuse to such a large degree that I think confronting that one wound

Because what you see is there are commonalities in the way that we respond to them and rationalize these things.

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