Well first an admission , I felt an unknown and spontaneous feeling of hatred towards him at one point of time. No not because of molestation charges ( well i do not know enough about all case facts and context to form an opinion) , but when he came with his album thriller in 1997.
I went to , one might say, most prestigious quiz in city for school going kids and after successfully navigating through general rounds , we were stumped in audio visual round as all questions were based on English music or movies and only movies in English I had seen till that point of time were Jurassic park or superman and those too in Hindi dubbed version. As far as music was concerned I had no clue at all and they played this song thriller from his new album and asked to identify artist and but naturally i was stumped.
It was only after some years when case against him was in full swing and i had discovered quite a pantheon of English movies and music , that i realized how important his work was. Then i also realised that all those break dancing moves which we saw people doing on school stage or weddings or bdday parties and in movies of mithun da or govinda or prbhau deva were inspired from his work.
we even had a dance class named on him near our home with poster of man with hat in dance move ( it showed only back of the man) obviously modeled on him. Well we never had copyrights in India enforced and at that time I don't think anyone gave a damn about it and but he was like many foreign influences on our daily lives which were there whether you realised it or not, felt it or not. Hate it or love it he was there.
RIP
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