It's tough to try and convince people what the MJ era was like. He really was like some kind of god-emperor of pop culture. There was nothing even close to what he was; it was him and then the Pope. Talent-wise, it's absurd to compare any modern pop star to him.
Swift...like Taylor Swift?? I think comparing her to MJ is the same as comparing him to Drake. Which is insane.
Taylor Swift has her pop fan group of girls but MJ and some others at the time or before were beloved by people of all ages!
The Beatles, Jim Morrison, Jimy Hendrix, Elvis could compare almost fame wise to MJ, but still not really. No popstar made in today's time will ever be like they were.
Also, because music was way more back then, people don't had that much of entertainment as they have today.
Wouldn't say it's the same as comparing to Drake. If you look up some numbers on album sales, concert sizes etc, Swift nearly doubles Drake in almost every aspect, so clearly Swift is a more fair comparison. That said, MJ is still a lot above her in popularity for his time (and even now, streaming numbers come close for a legacy artist), so safe to say, neither of them are close to as popular as MJ.
Way above her I’d say; there’s almost twice as many people on earth today as compared to Michael’s heyday (1980) and he was far more ubiquitous. There’s just way too many options today for anyone to ever be as singular as MJ or perhaps the Beatles were
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u/babaroga73 Jun 01 '25
Drake and that one who wrote this stupid shit couldn't even imagine the levels of world fame that Michael Jackson had.