Poll: Who is Queen of Pop? - Page 5

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Originally posted by revel8

I am not shading MJ, why would I? I am a big fan of his. I went to see him in concert. His close friend, Elizabeth Taylor, once calling him 'in her opinion, the King of Pop, Rock and Soul' when introducing him did not result in the widespread media adoption of this moniker for him, I assure you.

MTV execs later spilled the reality of Michael Jackon's demands in a book. Just cos I am a fan of his, I am not going to stick my head in the sand and think all these former MTV VJs are suddenly going to lie about this. The book is quite acclaimed. It spills the tea, atrl would love more of these insider stories coming to light.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Want...deo_Revolution

Relevant part is below
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...%20pop&f=false

Rolling Stone ran a story in 1992 of his demands the media call him the King of Pop
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/fe...9920109?page=3

http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/why...pop#.ptV2ZRVKw
http://www.ew.com/article/2001/10/30...n-not-king-pop

Madonna was subsequently dubbed the Queen of Pop by the media shortly after as a reaction to this.

The timeline of this story doesn't even make since. First off why would he force MTV to call him that and not the other channels it premiered on?And why only television too, why not when announcing him at award shows or to magazines too? When Elizabeth Taylor called him the King Of Pop, that was in 1989 before anything in either of these stories came up. So if the media did run with it it was because Elizabeth Taylor did it first and it had a ring to it, not because he dubbed himself that name. The article from the book you posted stated that he sat down with his publicist and came up with the nickname, why would he have to come up with the name if people were already calling him that? Also if he wanted to start pushing the name why did he wait until 1991, why didn't he do it in 1989 when Liz called him that, he was still the biggest star in the world? Believe the guys that wrote this or not i'm just saying the timeline doesn't make sense.

Also even before that he was already being referred to as the King of Pop during the Thriller era in the early 80s.

http://www.allforloveblog.com/wp-con...ing-of-pop.jpg

Lastly, in your first post you said "The Queen of Pop" is an honorific nickname because it's not a marketing tool. Even if MJ did press the nickname himself, you can see the media obviously didn't refuse. They would be fools to deny that he was infact that "the King of Pop." In the tons of interviews or videos i've seen of him i've never once heard him call himself the king of pop yet everytime you hear about him or read an article on him you hear "King of Pop." You see what happened when Rolling Stone tried to pull that crap a few years back by calling JT the King Of Pop and look what happened. Nobody has tried it with that title since. If anything "Queen of Pop" holds less significance because some new girl is being called the Queen of Pop every two years. Seriously google "Queen of Pop" and see how many different faces pop up vs "King of Pop." Either they are both marketing tools or both honorific titles but you can't have it both ways.