MICHAEL JACKSON PT. 1: THE JACKSON 5 (with Emily Lordi)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2024
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
For the first of our four-part series on the King of Pop, writer, professor and critic Emily Lordi joins Pop Pantheon to help us begin to untangle one of the most knotty legacies in pop history: the story of Michael Jackson. Emily and DJ Louie discuss Michael’s extremely strict upbringing, sadistic abuse at the hands of his father Joe, and the creation of The Jackson 5, from playing the Chitlin' Circuit to landing a Motown deal and kicking off one of the greatest single runs in history, beginning with 1969’s “I Want You Back.” Next they dig into The Jackson 5’s prolific Motown output, the marketing of Michael as a child sensation and how Jacksonmania made the Jacksons into a symbol of post-civil rights promise in America. Finally, they work through the band’s rebrand as The Jacksons, their post-Motown work, late '70s comeback and how the group’s monumental success set Michael up for solo superstardom.
Join us next week for Part 2, in which we will be talking about Michael’s early solo work and his breakthrough as a solo star, 1979’s Off The Wall.
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| 1:05.3 | available in the show notes of this episode. And gorgeous, gorgeous, my queer pop party is happening for free as a silent disco |
| 1:12.9 | on July 20th at Lincoln Center as part of Lincoln Center's summer for the city series. |
| 1:18.0 | So show up for that from 7 to 11 and also our normal LA party will be happening at Los |
| 1:23.4 | Globos and Silver Lake on July 26th. And the link to my tickets to that is in the show notes of this |
| 1:28.2 | episode. All right. We're launching a huge series today, maybe the most important one we've |
| 1:33.6 | ever done on this show about the King of Pop himself, Michael Jackson. This will be a four-part |
| 1:38.6 | series. The first episode today will cover the Jackson 5. The second episode will cover Michael |
| 1:43.8 | Jackson's early solo career |
| 1:45.4 | at Motown through his breakout solo effort to 1979s off the wall. The third episode will focus |
| 1:51.2 | exclusively on the blockbuster pop album of all time thriller. And the fourth episode will cover |
| 1:56.5 | bad through the end of his life and discuss obviously the immense complications of Michael Jackson's legacy. |
| 2:02.1 | I understand that this topic is a bit thorny for some people, and I want to say that we have put |
| 2:06.9 | a lot of thought into how we want to address this topic. Obviously, these episodes will dive into |
| 2:13.2 | issues of physical and sexual abuse. So if that's not something you want to listen to, |
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