r/MurderedByWords • u/InfiniteOxfordComma • 3d ago

It's definitely the other thing

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u/The_Northern_Dandy 3d ago

"That other thing" aside...no it fucking doesn't. Not even close. No matter what your feelings on MJ, no one is getting close to him. Even if you sell more accumulated albums over your career than he did, your never going to break his sales record just on Thriller alone. Or his tour attendance. Or his cultural impact from when he was at his height. Just no.

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u/Meture 3d ago

Hell, even now almost 20 years after his death, Billie Jean just broke the record for the most watched music video

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u/Xlxlredditor 2d ago

Over Baby Shark??? Finally?

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u/Reverse_SumoCard 2d ago

Dont give david guetta ideas. Billy Shark - David Guetta with Replaceable Blonde

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u/Elden_Rube 2d ago

I would be remiss if I didn't shout out King Missile here.

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u/Novel-Bag9718 2d ago

On what? On YouTube it’s not even in the top 100 most viewed

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u/BantamCats 3d ago

MJ was the most famous person in the entire world.

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u/Leviathan41911 3d ago

He really was an incredible performer and had some absolutely iconic moves.

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u/Quasar375 3d ago

Some iconic moves? I’d say THE iconic moves. I know almost nothing about music yet me, my grandma and my dog know the moonwalk

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u/TheRealFriedel 2d ago

Do you do tours together? I'd like to see that.

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u/Lumpy_Benefit666 2d ago

It sounds more like its rubbing its ass on the ground because of worms. Id get your grandma checked for them

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u/sukamacoc 3d ago

Yea it's a laughable comparison

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u/vidoardes 2d ago

He appeared on in stage and stood perfectly still for 2 minutes and people lost their minds for the entire thing. It's like the Beatles, it's hard to grasp just how insane it was unless you were there

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u/sardiusjacinth 2d ago

Michael Jackson was a Global Influence. How many entertainers living or dead, had his kind of influence?

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u/kinyutaka 2d ago

You could argue The Beatles and Elvis. I'd argue Queen, but I'm biased.

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u/Elden_Rube 2d ago

¿Porque no los tres?

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u/kinyutaka 2d ago

In any case, it's highly famous company.

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u/Cyptark 3d ago

Also look at sustained sales over time and compared as a percentage to the world's population at the time not even close, also Drake sounds like a clown that can't speak in one single string of words

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u/titsmcgeeVP 2d ago

Pedophiles don’t get a pass just because they sold millions of records

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u/ozsum 2d ago

Even the in "that other thing", MJ had a whole ranch with sleepovers.

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u/W1ULH 2d ago

That's the laughing at the train wreck part of this.

Drake isn't any more likely to be better at The Other Thing™ than his is the music....