Will Michael Jackson's Return Be A "Freakshow"?

Will Michael Jackson's comeback performance become a “freak show”?


That's what some worried when the singer announced that he will perform next week at the World Music Awards in London next week.

Jacko has told organizers he is planning to do a live recreation of the graveyard scene from his “Thriller” video to close out the show — his first performance since his messy child abuse case last year.


He was acquitted of those charges, but the trial had dire consequences for his career. He has appeared publicly only one time since the trial, at the MTV Video Music Awards in Tokyo, but has spent most of his time in seclusion in Bahrain and, more recently, in Ireland, where he’s said to be working on his comeback CD.

“He looks dreadful and hasn’t performed for years — I fear it’s going to be a humiliating freak show which he will regret,” a commentator wrote in the London Sun.

Jackson is scheduled to start rehearsals early next week, but some music industry insiders are betting that rehearsals won't go well and Jackson will come down with a case of that old standby — “dehydration."
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Know I have to say about this tidbit? Who will care? Michael Jackson's career has been destroyed. Even if he wasn't guilty of any of the charges the authorities brought against him (and, in his defense,I really think he might be)he will never be cleared by public opinion. You know, the backyard fence mentality thing. There will always be at least doubt. Too bad, because Jacko was a major talent. I wish him luck on the comeback trail.