The Double-Dip Mentality

[Occhidiangela]

Made me start wondering about Michael Jackson. He started off as a young black boy with MoTown, and wound up being an old white woman.
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Mr Jackson's pre "Thriller" appearance was no obstacle to his making plenty of dough. :D Fame has its hazards.

I read your characterization of these various "artists" as victims of some conspiracy. (Am I reading something into that?) My take is that some of them are victims of their own egos and greed. That said, agents and star makers, clever people, have been playing talented and naive people like cheap banjos for a very long time. Greed knows no ethnicity, no color line, no nationality. ;-)

What might Public Enemy have said, lyrically, about the damage greed can do? Perhaps something like:

"Fight the Power!
Fight the Power of Greed!"

Occhi