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Celeb News: Top 10 Pop Culture Icons of the Past 50 years
Member Since: 3/15/2010
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Originally posted by £100
I think the majority of people (not just teens, 20, and 30 year olds) would rank the Beatles above Michael.
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def. agree
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Originally posted by Alexz
The Queen  |
No, the Princess. >.<
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Originally posted by Lazos
michael is only famous for one album in the early 80s
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Granted, Thriller is by far his most treasured album, I can't help but feel like you are speaking about a subject you clearly haven't studied. Michael's biggest hits are pretty evenly dispersed between every album he released from 1979 to the early 1990s. Albums like Off the Wall, Bad and Dangerous, spawned numerous #1 and top ten songs that have easily become some of Michael's most remembered work. Music aside, Michael's flair, his style and his personal life basically epitomize popular culture from the 1980s through the mid-90s.
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Member Since: 11/6/2009
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Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, The Beatles 
Andy Warhol, Bob Marley, John Lennon, James Dean, and Jim Morrison are deserving Top 10 candidates too.
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Member Since: 6/30/2009
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Originally posted by Lazos
michael is only famous for one album in the early 80s, MADONNA has been making albums and being an icon constantly since the early 80s. she should be number 1
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Michael Jackson is famous for being the King of Pop, and as Sir Bob Geldof put it, "creating some of the most glorious music in the pop canon". 
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Originally posted by Red
But this isn't the last ten or even twenty years. It's the last fifty. Your generation (hell, my generation) aren't as familiar with him, but I can guarantee you the people from the other thirty years are very familiar with Paul Newman. If it was the last twenty years, then a LOT of these names wouldn't be in the top ten.
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That's true, but my point was more that the other oldies here--The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali, Elvis--are universally known. They are talked about continuously and you'd have to be living under a rock not to know who they are today. The same can't be said for Paul Newman.
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Member Since: 4/22/2009
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Originally posted by MissTina
You Britney stans(beatfreak/starstruck52) are crazy..  |
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Originally posted by MissTina
They'd know better than to put her on that list without her permission.. She's too exclusive for this ****.  |
Irony.
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Member Since: 8/22/2009
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Originally posted by sahn
The list should be:
1 - Michael
2 - Madonna
3 - Elvis
4 - The Beatles
5 - Marilyn Monroe
6 - Frank Sinatra
7 - Princess Diana
8 - Muhammad Ali
9 - Paul Newman
10 - Oprah Winfrey
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1. Micheal Jackson
2. Oprah Winfrey
3. The Beatles
4. Marilyn Monroe
5. Elvis Presley
6. Frank Sinatra
7. Madonna
8. Muhammad Ali
9. Paul Newman
10. Princess Diana
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Member Since: 8/22/2009
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Originally posted by Anthony Kerty
Oprah Winfrey shouldn't be ahead of ANY of those others listed.  |
You ****ing tried... OPRAH is one of the most influential icons EVER! She came from dirt and became the richest black woman ever.... dont downplay her because she isnt in music because thats not what this is about at all. When will anyone else on this be a billionaire?
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Member Since: 8/22/2009
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Originally posted by Red
..."who the hell is Paul Newman"? Are you kidding me? Wow, we live in a world where people don't know who Paul Newman was. That...is super depressing.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000056/ < There's your first primer on Paul Newman. Go from there.
Honestly, I'm not even sure if Elvis should be #1. You can make a strong argument for The Beatles, as well as MJ. |
Paul Newman is alright, but IMO he isnt a bigger Icon than Marlon Brando since Marlon has reached our generation, and as you can see most kids dont even know Paul.
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Member Since: 8/22/2009
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Originally posted by eli's_rhythm
Madonna & Marilyn > Muhammad and Oprah.
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The cruel irony behind that sign.
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Member Since: 8/22/2009
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Originally posted by DX7
Are they talking about WORLDWIDE icons? Because if true, Oprah doesn't deserve to be on that list.
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You tried. Oprah is known in more countries than you can count on your fingers and toes..... 
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Member Since: 8/22/2009
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Originally posted by Lazos
michael is only famous for one album in the early 80s, MADONNA has been making albums and being an icon constantly since the early 80s. she should be number 1
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Madonna has never and will never have anything on Michael so find a seat.
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Originally posted by Satellites
Paul Newman is alright, but IMO he isnt a bigger Icon than Marlon Brando since Marlon has reached our generation, and as you can see most kids dont even know Paul.
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There's a good argument, actually. They were, basically, cut from the same cloth, but Brando was the better actor.
I don't know. I'd have to think about it.
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I cant at Elvis being #1 and him and Madonna being higher than Michael  What a fail of a list
Elvis did a lot but people overrate him and I notice most lists always seem to put him higher than Michael even though Michael who did way more in terms of achievements and impact on music.
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Originally posted by HoneyBee.
Elvis did a lot but people overrate him especially compared to Michael who did way more in terms of achievements and impact.
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I tend to agree that people overrate Elvis, but it's impossible to overstate his impact on the music industry. Hell, I'd make the argument that, without Elvis (and artists similar to Elvis), there would be no Beatles.
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Member Since: 8/22/2009
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Well too bad, cause I could certainly live without the majorly overrated Beatles.
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Originally posted by Satellites
Well too bad, cause I could certainly live without the majorly overrated Beatles.
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Don't. Just don't.
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Member Since: 3/13/2010
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Originally posted by Red
I tend to agree that people overrate Elvis, but it's impossible to overstate his impact on the music industry. Hell, I'd make the argument that, without Elvis (and artists similar to Elvis), there would be no Beatles.
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Not saying Elvis didnt have impact but compared to Michael's, he definitely isnt on that level yet people always put him higher than Michael on these types of lists.
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Member Since: 9/28/2009
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Originally posted by Satellites
Well too bad, cause I could certainly live without the majorly overrated Beatles.
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And without the Beatles there is no modern pop music as we know it. 
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