Dan Reed

But not everyone's watched it.

A lot of people read online, oh, it was debunked or this or, you know, it's all lies or whatever, you know, whatever the Jackson fan base puts up on YouTube.

And so it's easy for people to give themselves permission to enjoy the music.

And the music's stunning.

He's a stunning entertainer.

There's no two ways about it.

And people have grown up listening to his music.

It's been endlessly quoted and sampled.

And so I'm not saying Jackson wasn't a great entertainer.

I'm not saying that.

And I'm not saying that people shouldn't listen to his music.

I'm not into cancelling people, cancelling art.

Because otherwise, there are so many...

artists with terrible personal lives that we'd be canceling half of the European canon, right?

But I'm not a book burner.

So, you know, that belongs in the Middle Ages.

And so, God bless, people can listen to Jackson's music and go and see the movie.

I just think that we also have to bear the truth in mind that he was, as a person, as a human being, he was very, very cruel to children.

And I think, you know, that's terrible.

It hurts a lot of children really badly.