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  • Aaron Carter clarifies that “inappropriate” statement about Michael Jackson

    Aaron Carter clarifies that “inappropriate” statement about Michael Jackson

    Aaron Carter has made clarifications on his non-committal statement that Michael Jackson had done something “inappropriate” to him when he was younger – and apparently, it wasn’t sexual.

    Aaron Carter is amending his statement that Michael Jackson did something “inappropriate” to him when he was young, reconfirming his stance that Michael was “an amazing guy”.

    Taking to Twitter the singer said,

    “Everyone having my back I appreciate you,” he wrote.

    “My reasoning for even speaking on this subject is to tell my truth, be real and to also have his back based on my experiences with Michael. He was an amazing guy, I stand by that. So I ask u not to turn this into something it isn’t.”

    In response to a question he wrote,  “In my opinion, it WAS a Little inappropriate what’s the problem with that? What I achieved? I’m not trying to achieve anything except telling my story to validate he didn’t f—ing do anything sexual! Are you all this stupid? Honestly?”

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    During an interview in a new show, Marriage Bootcamp, Reality Stars Family Edition Aaron Carter revealed that Michael Jackson did do something inappropriate with him. After the show’s filming, he said that the counselling in the show had helped him work out some of his feelings towards the late, now disgraced singer.

    Aaron said, “Michael was a really good guy, as far as I know, He never did anything that was inappropriate except for one time. There was one thing that he did that was a little bit inappropriate.”

    He continued, “I in no way shape or form accused him of being a child molester,” he added, writing another tweet, “I’m sorry but where in the definition ‘inappropriate’ does it mention sexual misconduct?”

    “My story VALIDATES in MY OPINION that Michael didn’t do anything sexual to others,” the singer continued.

    Aaron finished by writing, “I’m not worried. Just had to set everyone straight and I’m not done either.”

  • Aaron Carter admits that Michael Jackson did do something inappropriate

    Aaron Carter admits that Michael Jackson did do something inappropriate

    In an interview, Aaron Carter admitted that Michael Jackson once did something inappropriate with him.

    During an interview in a new show, Marriage Bootcamp, Reality Stars Family Edition Aaron Carter revealed that Michael Jackson did do something inappropriate with him. After the show’s filming, he said that the counselling in the show had helped him work out some of his feelings towards the late, now disgraced singer.

    Aaron said, “Michael was a really good guy as far as I know,

    “He never did anything that was inappropriate except for one time. There was one thing that he did that was a little bit inappropriate.”

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    Aaron Carter who first met Michael Jackson when he was just 14. He asked the young singer to appear on the charity single, “What More Can I Give”.

    However, the 31-year-old didn’t elaborate further. Whether he’ll continue with his story or if more details will come out after the airing of the show remains to be seen.

    The statement seems at odds with Aaron’s unwavering support of Michael Jackson’s behaviour over the years, particularly over the child abuse revelations from the documentary film, Leaving Neverland.

  • Matt Lucas calls out two tabloids for inaccurate reporting

    Matt Lucas calls out two tabloids for inaccurate reporting

    The comedian took to Twitter to call out two of Britain’s leading tabloid newspapers for false reporting over Finding Neverland Michael Jackson tweet.

    Back in February, Matt Lucas said, that Michael Jackson could “rot” after watching the forthcoming documentary film, Leaving Neverland about the alleged abuse of two boys by the late singer.

    However, since that tweet, Matt has said that a handful of Jackson’s fans have harassed him, saying that he had even received a death threat by one sick person.

    Both The Sun and The Mirror picked up the story, but inserted that Matt Lucas had called Jackson a “paedo”. A word that Matt never actually used in his original tweet.

    Taking to Twitter Matt wrote, “I don’t know why but both The Mirror and The Sun have misquoted me. I did not call Michael Jackson a ‘paedo’ at any point.”

    Leaving Neverland is going to be broadcast in the UK on the 6th and 7th March 2019 on Channel 4. The film, which will be split into two episodes, documents alleged abuse against two boys James Safechuck and Wade Robson.

  • LEAVING NEVERLAND: Filmmaker Dan Reed talks about bringing the stories of the abused to life

    LEAVING NEVERLAND: Filmmaker Dan Reed talks about bringing the stories of the abused to life

    Filmmaker Dan Reed talks about his filmmaking and about how he captured the stories of Wade Robson and James Safechuck and their life with Michael Jackson.

    Q: You are no stranger to controversial subjects in your documentaries, as you have made films about child predators, terrorists, and international politics. How did you approach the subject matter of this film, which takes place in the world of pop culture and celebrity?

    A: Well, the first point is, that this is not a film about Michael Jackson. It’s about two very ordinary families whose paths crossed with Jackson’s, and the incredible aspirations that he represented. The families fell in love with those good things, not understanding the long-lasting impact this relationship would have on their children and families.

    In my storytelling, I don’t choose to criticize Jackson directly or comment on his actions, motives, or reasons why. I’ve left it quite neutral, deliberately. But make no mistake, the story is one of a criminal sexual predator.

    I wanted people to understand that when a child is groomed by a predator, it’s a very complex relationship. The parents are manipulated. It’s all very gentle and often manifested as love to the child. The families still hang onto the mentorship, love and attention that Jackson brought into their lives, and find themselves grappling with the contradictions of their relationship. LEAVING NEVERLAND: MICHAEL JACKSON AND ME is about both what Michael Jackson gave to them, and what he took away.

    The focus of the documentary is deliberately narrow. I did interview former detectives and prosecutors from the two principal investigations into Jackson, but I realized that the families’ telling of the story was so complete already. The changes within the family – mothers and sons, sisters and brothers, husbands and wives – become the echo chamber of the story. You feel like you are inside the family, and I felt that interviews from the public sphere would break that spell and place us back on the outside.

    Q: What did you bring from your previous filmmaking experience that helped you find the focus of this documentary?

    A: I come from a world of war zones and crime and undercover work, places where I must show the hidden drama, the inner workings and the realities of the things that people don’t see in the headlines. These are the kinds of events that fill us with horror but are often portrayed in a very simplistic way by the 24/7 news media. Making the documentaries about terrorist attacks for HBO, for instance, I used extraordinary archival material and many months of exhaustive research to create a detailed account, told through intimate personal stories, of world events that people think they already know about.

    In many of my more recent films, these stories are in the past tense, and this is really about the drama of the interview, the human face and voice, which I treat with great care. You get a kind of intimacy in the account and the testimony, and the relationship with the interviewer, and that’s something I’ve fallen in love with – the power of testifying, the power of speaking out. The ability of a subject being able to say, “I’m not just going to repeat the official version, but my version, with all of the rich complexity of my own experience.”

    Q: It’s also quite an ambitious way to tell the tale – really limited to archival footage and a small number of sit-down interviews with family members, told in two 120-minute parts.

    A: It’s four hours long because it’s a story that takes four hours to tell in a way that makes it fully understandable in all its complexity. We’re involving our audience in the lives of these families and trying to get them to understand all the complicated family dynamics that evolved over years. Why was it the mothers never realized? How could this have gone on for so long? Why didn’t Robson or Safechuck tell anyone? And why have they decided to speak about it now, after denying it for so long? The answer to all of that is made plain in the film, but you need to watch the whole thing. So much of it is in the nuance of individual behaviour, relationships, and of the bonds between people. You must go on the journey of these relationships to see how all this went down in detail. We are asking people to dedicate some time to best understand and process this extraordinary testimony.

    Q: What was it like working with Safechuck and Robson, whose stories are incredibly complex as they sort through their contradictory feelings for Michael Jackson?

    A: I interviewed them in February 2017, before I interviewed anyone else. Prior to interviewing them, I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, but not ready to accept anything at face value. As a journalist and a filmmaker with 30 years’ experience, I approached them with a degree of skepticism, until I knew I could have some confidence, and that what they said was consistent and entirely credible.

    I interviewed Robson first. He’s been on television many times, and he is a very good storyteller – very sharp. We quickly struck up a comfortable relationship speaking very candidly and emotionally about everything. I interviewed him for three days, and my instinct very early was that he was telling the truth. Still, I challenged every aspect and detail of the story, looking for corroboration, interrogating every detail and looking for internal inconsistencies in his account. Then I began to understand what he had been through. I realized – and this was a shock – that from the age of seven he had been very much in love with Jackson, and that this sincere love for his abuser had shaped much of his future behaviour. Wade was very precise, composed and confident. He had already talked about the abuse once in public in an interview with Matt Lauer, but this was the first time he spoke about it in so much detail. And it’s really the detail that opens the way to understanding his story.

    With Safechuck, however, it was the first time he had ever talked to a journalist in his life. His story was completely unheard, and you could really sense him feeling his way through the two days of interviews. You can see from the tone of his testimony that he’s trying to find words, trying to come to terms with the memories, the conflicting feelings of admiration and horror, and it’s a lot more tentative. You can really feel the inner turmoil. The two subjects complement each other very well, and they’re perhaps the most remarkable interviews I’ve ever done because of that.

    Joy and Stephanie, their mothers, were not initially eager to share their story, but they showed a tremendous amount of courage, willing to open up about the mistakes they made. They provide the most essential context for the story of their sons’ sexual relationship with Jackson, of which they were entirely unaware, although it happened right under their noses. Now that they have seen the film, I think they get a sense of how powerful it is to witness someone speaking the truth. They’ve said that they hope their courage can help others speak up, giving permission to other victims and parents who have been fooled by sexual predators.

    Q: Jackson is so ubiquitous as a cultural icon that despite the detail with which the film supports the stories told by James Safechuck and Wade Robson, there are likely to be those who want to overlook, minimize or even ignore the claims of those who have accused Jackson of predatory behavior.

    A: During my research, I spoke to one veteran California investigator who had been involved in more than 4,000 child sexual abuse cases, including the 1993 LAPD investigation into Jackson. He claimed that the star’s MO “fit the true pattern of a paedophile.” Safechuck and Robson describe the classic, step-by-step playbook: you insert yourself into the family so that you can ultimately isolate and separate the child. You charm the parents, usually flattering the mother while keeping the father at a distance until you can substitute yourself – remember, Robson talks about wanting Jackson to be his “real father.” Privately, with the child, you undermine the parents, particularly the mother, which Jackson did to both boys, encouraging them to blame their mothers as their marriages started to fall apart. You become everything to the child: father, brother, mentor, then sexual abuser. The child is overwhelmed and can’t reach out and connect to the things that had previously formed their identity. The veteran detective also pointed out that it’s not unusual for victims to stay silent until many years after the sexual abuse has ended, once emotional and behavioural problems begin to surface.

    Leaving Neverland: Michael Jackson and Me, 6th & 7th March at 9 pm on Channel 4

  • LEAVING NEVERLAND: When is the Michael Jackson film on and what channel?

    LEAVING NEVERLAND: When is the Michael Jackson film on and what channel?

    The controversial documentary film, Leaving Neverland is coming to the UK and you’ll be able to watch for free.

    When is the Michael Jackson film on and what channel?

    Leaving Neverland is going to be broadcast in the UK on the 6th and 7th March 2019 on Channel 4. The film, which will be split into two episodes, documents alleged abuse against two boys James Safechuck and Wade Robson.

    The four-hour film, which will be shown in two, two hour programmes, has already proved controversial with fans of the late Michael Jackson and his family. It is due to broadcast on Channel 4 in the near future. The decision to broadcast the series has proved problematic for the channel after being deluged with messages of disapproval from users on Twitter.

    In the film, both Wade Robson and James Safechuck allege that Michael Jackson began a long-running relationship with them. The Jackson Estate released a statement denoucing the film as”yet another lurid production in an outrageous and pathetic attempt to exploit and cash in on Michael Jackson.”

    Speaking ahead of the documentary, filmmaker Dan Reed said in a statement, “If there’s anything we’ve learned during this time in our history, it’s that sexual abuse is complicated, and survivors’ voices need to be listened to.

    The film was produced by Dan Reed and edited by Jules Cornell.

  • Matt Lucas: “Michael Jackson can rot”

    The Little Britain star has slammed Michael Jackson, saying he “can rot” after watching the brand new documentary film, Leaving Neverland.

    Matt Lucas has slammed Michael Jackson saying that he “can rot” after watching the damning documentary series, Leaving Neverland, which is due to transmit on Channel 4 at some point in the near future. The comedian said that the film was “a very tough watch” but added that the testimonies from Wade Robson and James Safechuck were “brave” and “vital”.

    The four-hour film, which will be shown in two, two hour programmes, has already proved controversial with fans of the late Michael Jackson and his family. It is due to broadcast on Channel 4 in the near future. The decision to broadcast the series has proved problematic for the channel after being deluged with messages of disapproval from users on Twitter.

    In the film, both Wade Robson and James Safechuck allege that Michael Jackson began a long-running relationship with them. The Jackson Estate released a statement denoucing the film as”yet another lurid production in an outrageous and pathetic attempt to exploit and cash in on Michael Jackson.”

    Speaking ahead of the documentary, filmmaker Dan Reed said in a statement, “If there’s anything we’ve learned during this time in our history, it’s that sexual abuse is complicated, and survivors’ voices need to be listened to.

    “It took great courage for these two men to tell their stories and I have no question about their validity.

  • Freddie Mercury And Michael Jackon To Duet In New Queen Album

    Three previously unreleased Queen tracks featuring late singer Freddie Mercury spearhead an exciting new Queen album, Queen Forever, due November 10th 2014 on the Virgin Records label.

    The tracks include a long anticipated track from Queen and Michael Jackson, There Must Be More to Life Than This, a previously unfinished Mercury-Queen track Let Me In Your Heart Again originating from the band’s The Works album recording sessions, and a scorching new stripped-down ballad version of Mercury’s first solo hit, his Giorgio Moroder collaboration, Love Kills.

    The rest of the package brings together Queen hits, classic tracks, and new takes on well-known songs, matched with band recordings Brian May describes as “things that we have collected together that are representative of our growth rather than the big hits” in a collection immaculately assembled by May and Roger Taylor themselves. The tracks are all linked to represent a definitive collection of Queen’s timeless love songs.

    Queen Forever is available as a 20-track single CD and as an extended 36-track, two-CD set, and celebrates the extraordinary musical path of one of the world’s greatest rock bands.

    Anticipation for these new Mercury tracks has been high since May and Taylor first hinted earlier this year that new tracks featuring Mercury were being explored.

    Speaking at the press conference to launch their North American concert tour with singer Adam Lambert earlier in the year, May said: “There was a little bit more in the can that we had overlooked for a long time, so we have a few songs which we’re working on right now. Freddie sounds as fresh as yesterday.”

    On the subject, Taylor said: “We’ve got some great new tracks that haven’t been heard and there’s an interesting selection of older stuff.”

    The Queen and Michael Jackson duet, There Must Be More to Life Than This, began as a song written by Mercury during sessions for Queen’s 1981 album, Hot Space. The band recorded a backing track, but the song was never completed. Mercury visited Michael Jackson at his home studio in Los Angeles where he recorded Jackson singing the song for an unfinished version. Queen revived the track during sessions for 1984’s The Works, but again it was not finished. A year later, Freddie’s own version of the song surfaced on his debut solo album, 1985’s Mr Bad Guy. This new production of the powerful ballad fuses Queen’s original backing track and Mercury and Jackson’s distinctive vocals, and has been produced and remixed by celebrated Madonna/Robbie Williams producer William Orbit.

    Talking of his involvement, Orbit say: “I had known Roger for many years, now he was on the phone asking if I would get involved in this musical adventure.

    “When I first played it in my studio I opened a trove of delights provided by the greatest of musicians. Hearing Michael Jackson’s vocals was stirring. So vivid, so cool, and poignant, it was like he was in the studio singing live. With Freddie’s vocal solo on the mixing desk, my appreciation for his gift was taken to an even higher level.

    “The musicianship of all four members of Queen is phenomenal. Roger, an extraordinarily multi talented man I’ve always admired. John Deacon’s original bass part with its lyrical fluidity that made it easy for me to know where to put the odd reinforcement. Freddie’s original piano carried most of the song’s musical DNA. Brian, one take for the solo, a blur of fingers, and the spirits of MJ and FM fully present, in the moment, sending shivers down the spine.”

    Perhaps the biggest revelation on Queen Forever is Brian May’s composition, Let Me In Your Heart Again. The song was first recorded by Queen for The Works album, but not completed at the time and has remained overlooked since then. An authentic, live-in-the-studio track from the same golden age as Radio Ga Ga and I Want To Break Free, this never-before-heard Queen track shows off Freddie’s timeless vocals and features newly recorded guitar parts and new backing vocals from Brian and Roger. This thrilling track finally reaches us nearly 30 years after Freddie first laid down his original vocal.

    The third new track, Love Kills, was composed by Freddie Mercury and famed German producer/songwriter Giorgio Moroder for the soundtrack to Moroder’s newly restored and tinted version of Fritz Lang’s 1927 classic silent movie Metropolis in 1984 to which he added a pop soundtrack featuring various music artists. Mercury recorded a high-energy dance version of the song that became his debut solo hit in 1985. However, it is less well known that all four members of Queen played on the original track. Prior to Queen embarking on their recent tour with lead singer Adam Lambert, Brian May proposed performing an acoustic ballad version of Love Kills, which became one of the most memorable moments of the current Queen & Adam Lambert shows. This new Queen-Freddie studio version is shaped in the same ballad style and revives the Queen original with some newly recorded guitars and drums by May and Taylor, becoming a glorious showcase for one of Freddie’s most adrenaline-charged vocal performances.

    Alongside this new material, both the one and two-CD versions of Queen Forever feature songs that spotlight the band’s songwriting prowess, studio experimentation and remarkable development. It’s a timely reminder that, almost uniquely in the world of rock and pop, all four members of Queen were accomplished songwriters and superlatively gifted musicians.

    Queen Forever reaches back as far as 1974 with fan favourite Nevermore, a Freddie Mercury song originally included on Queen II, the album that first saw Queen use the recording studio as an instrument in its own right. From the same year comes the dramatic power ballad In The Lap Of The Gods… Revisited, once the grand finale of any Queen show, and since revived by Queen & lead singer Adam Lambert on their 2014 tour. Meanwhile, the upbeat single, You’re My Best Friend, written by bass guitarist John Deacon, showcased Queen’s poppier side and was released as the follow-up to 1975’s Bohemian Rhapsody, becoming a Top 10 UK and Top 20 US hit in the same year and gave John Deacon his first Queen hit single.

    Elsewhere, 1977’s Long Away remains the only Queen single to feature Brian May on lead vocals; and the same year’s B-side Drowse includes a rare Queen performance from Roger Taylor on guitar. Queen saw out the decade with a run of hits that included the gospel-flavoured Somebody To Love, memorably performed by Queen and George Michael at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992, and finished on a high with ‘79’s US Number 1 hit, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, an exuberant rockabilly pop song composed by Freddie Mercury in the bath in Munich.

    By touching on prog rock, gospel, acoustic balladry, Elvis-style rock’n’roll and more, these songs alone encapsulate Queen’s diversity in the 1970s. However, the band threw out the rulebook completely in the decades that followed, embracing funk, hard rock, soul and pure pop, but always sounding unmistakably Queen. The band used synthesizers for the first time on 1980’s Play The Game single; Freddie sang some of his vocals in Spanish on the 1982 hit Las Palabras De Amor, and 1986’s One Year Of Love featuring unusually a saxophone. The album is completed by latter-day Queen hits, including ’91’s no. 1 These Are The Days Of Our Lives and ‘95’s Too Much Love Will Kill You, together with the poignant A Winter’s Tale, recorded during Freddie Mercury’s final Queen recording sessions in Montreux in 1991.

    Queen Forever is both a showcase for these exclusive new recordings, but also an enduring tribute to the extraordinary musical achievements of John Deacon, Brian May, Roger Taylor and the late, great Freddie Mercury whose singular talent we can again get to marvel at with the arrival of these previously unheard tracks.

    Queen Forever. Forever? Who can tell? But for now we can be certain that this highly rewarding collection of Queen new, rare, and at their most accomplished, more than serves to uphold the band’s indisputable place in music history and is certain to earn a prized place in music collections for a long time to come.

    Queen certainly rates in the top among Britain’s favourite bands. The UK’s Official Charts Company earlier this year confirmed Queen’s 1981 Greatest Hits album as Britain’s best-selling album of all time all after surpassing the 6 million sales milestone. A staggering one in three British households now own a copy of the iconic act’s original best-of collection.

    And if 6 million sales isn’t enough for the band, Queen’s follow-up, Greatest Hits II, which was released in October 1991 also rides high at Number 10 in the all-time Official Albums Chart, having notched up a further 3.9 million UK sales to date.

  • Amusing Site Of The Day Love Gods Way Gay Bands

    Sometimes when trawling through the internet I take a detour into the rather pathetic minds of the bigots out in the world… That’s why I’ve decided to create Amusing Site Of The Day.

    Today’s Funny Site Of The Day award goes to:

    http://lovegodsway.org/GayBands

    This hilarious site, (no actually it’s hilarious) warns parents about the dangers of listening to GAY music from artists such as:

    P!NK

    COLDPLAY

    MICHAEL JACKSON

    JASON MRAZ

    QUEEN

    and BOY GEORGE

    They recommend that you burn your kids CDs if they have any of the music on the “gay list” otherwise “the next thing you know you have a homosexual for a child”

    Dammit gays! Stop making our children gay through your MUSIC. Which is very strange because most of the list aren’t even gay, lesbian, bi or trans. There is, however, an explanation for this:

    “There are multiple levels of Gay Music. Some bands are what we like to call GATEWAY BANDS…”

    No, wait it gets better….

    “They lure children in with Pop Grooves and Salacious Melodies leaving them wanting more…”

    This is actual science. You can’t argue with these kinds of facts… You can’t make this kind of thing up.

    Congratulations http://lovegodsway.org/GayBands for create a amusing site.

    If you’re afraid that music might be turning you gay – feel free to email them:

    lovegodsway.org@gmail.com tell them the TheGayUK sends love and gayness.