WI: Michael Jackson without the scandals

my guess late 60's to his early 70's his health problems will catch up to him sooner or later
so 2025-2030 mostly? wonder if enough time for a final comeback

wonder how much this was motivated because scandals
 
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A lot of Black comedians like Steve Harvey and Bernie Mac warned him of the Neverland ranch and how it was a dumb idea. So maybe he listens to them and avoids drug addiction due to not getting hurt from the pyrotechnics incident.

Michael Jackson probably was gonna get hired on as a judge for the so you think you dance show. They were gonna pay Mj a million an episode. So I think he'll be good finance wise
 
It's been said before, but the crucial turning point is the Pepsi Commercial accident - no accident, and you eliminate the need for plastic surgery & painkillers. I'm not saying he wouldn't still use them (insecurity does strange things), but without the accident the initial clinical need isn't there.
 
It's been said before, but the crucial turning point is the Pepsi Commercial accident - no accident, and you eliminate the need for plastic surgery & painkillers. I'm not saying he wouldn't still use them (insecurity does strange things), but without the accident the initial clinical need isn't there.
Maybe not Vitiglio too
 
Of course, there's also the other possibility that he gets caught up in the backlash to 80s pop culture and then the best case scenario is that he's on the level of Lionel Richie or Cyndi Lauper. Still releasing music, moderately succesful with an older demographic, but nowhere near as big as he was in the 80s.
 
Maybe MJ should run Neverland Ranch as a family-oriented theme park in this timeline and live somewhere private.

Michael actually intended to leave Neverland for the children of the world and find another home, especially since he was hardly there in the '90s and the final years, but this was prevented by circumstances.
 
Let’s assume the child stuff does not happen for one reason or another. The vitiligo thing would probably not be a punch line or if was, one that would cease to be funny if MJ decided to show the side effects of the skin necrosis that could’ve happened.

Alongside the Neverland theme park thing and avoiding his accident, he could definitely have gotten involved with more stuff.

For some reason, I could see him channeling his drive to recapture his childhood when the 80d nostalgia hits along with how millennials and others clung onto their youth which could help resurrect him into modern times and perhaps he’d be more experimental with the new music and do stuff with modern video games.
 
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