AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! deep breath... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

December 13, 2000 1:26 PM

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! deep breath... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
posted by thirteen (35 comments total)

Unfortunately, you can't really see his hair in that photo. He was recently on some awards show and his hairdoo was more frightening than the rest of him.

posted by gluechunk at 1:28 PM on December 13, 2000

Very well said.
posted by quirked at 1:38 PM on December 13, 2000

The chancrous clown-lip is somewhat frightening as well.
posted by lileks at 1:41 PM on December 13, 2000

Thanks, thirteen! I'm sleeping with the light on! Why, I've been driven cheerfully mad! My eyes! My eyes! They buuuurrrrn!
posted by Skot at 1:49 PM on December 13, 2000

omg...it's sad that mj was so obsessed with his physical appearance that this resulted....then again, maybe it's just a really really really bad photo.
posted by physics at 1:50 PM on December 13, 2000

maybe it's just a really really really bad photo.

Nope.
posted by rcade at 1:55 PM on December 13, 2000

Dear God.

Can someone help me find my eyes? Watch your step (because I can't).
posted by pnevares at 1:57 PM on December 13, 2000

omg, that is scary and the subtle only makes it worse.
posted by riffola at 1:57 PM on December 13, 2000

Btw, why does he look that way? Wasn't there something about him getting like 20 mil worth of plastic surgery and skin bleaching? It's like... AGH!? I mean, can he even move? or?
posted by tiaka at 2:06 PM on December 13, 2000

Btw, why does he look that way? Wasn't there something about him getting like 20 mil worth of plastic surgery and skin bleaching? It's like... AGH!? I mean, can he even move? or?
posted by tiaka at 2:06 PM on December 13, 2000

[The reader looks at the link and thinks]:Hmm. That's not a very literary post. Not very indicative of the potential content of the page in question either. Tut. Tut.
[The reader clicks on the link anyway in the spirit of hopeful, if jaded, curiosity]: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! deep breath... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
posted by davidgentle at 2:13 PM on December 13, 2000

Haven't we all agreed to warn before posting obscenities on MeFi? Some of us are surfing from work you know! :-)
posted by cCranium at 2:15 PM on December 13, 2000

Kinda reminds me of Prince... Yeah, I know: ew.
posted by silusGROK at 2:18 PM on December 13, 2000

Remember, same person here-

1960's
1970's
1980's
1990's

And, ofcourse, now.
posted by tiaka at 2:19 PM on December 13, 2000

I wonder if he would look this bad had he NOT had plastic surgery?

The pics thru the past defintly made the pic all that much better....
posted by webboy2119 at 2:27 PM on December 13, 2000

Don't you think it's kind of hard for someone to pull off the "gruff manly beard" look when you wear makeup and have your cheeks tucked?It'd be interesting apply to MJ some of that special software they use to produce up to date computer generated photos of criminals when they only photo they have of the person is too old.
posted by tomorama at 2:34 PM on December 13, 2000

Yeek! What's up with the blue eyebrows?!?
posted by Mr. skullhead at 2:39 PM on December 13, 2000

posted by lagado at 2:39 PM on December 13, 2000

Oog, I was eating when I looked at that. I think I'm gonna be sick...


posted by black8 at 2:51 PM on December 13, 2000

His NOSE! What the hell is with his deformed, mangled NOSE!!!

He did this WILLINGLY!!!
posted by solistrato at 2:53 PM on December 13, 2000

He should host a TV series on Fox: When Plastic Surgeries Go Bad.
posted by mathowie at 2:57 PM on December 13, 2000

oh my, i can't remember the last time i've even thought about Michael Jackson. i'm gonna have nightmares for a month now.
posted by jbelshaw at 3:07 PM on December 13, 2000

He supposedly got vitiligo [pigmentation disorder] for awhile and it thoroughly bleached his skin. I wouldn't believe that if I hadn't watched it happen over the course of a year to a good friend of mine who ended up being treated--but not before refusing to leave the house for six months due to embarassment. If that's the case with Michael, it's sad to think so many people accuse him of 'wanting to be white', etc.
posted by chartres at 3:28 PM on December 13, 2000

After reading today about people who desperately want to cut off their limbs I think I have more sympathy for MJ -- basically he just sees his face as wrong. No amount of surgery or money will ever change that psychological fact ... but each new surgery is an action which (at least momentarily) relieves the acute pain of his body-image disorder.
posted by MattD at 3:29 PM on December 13, 2000

What really gets me about the caption on the photo was the line, "Jackson is among one of the all-male group of artists being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for 2001."

That don't look like no dude to me?
posted by 120degrees at 3:36 PM on December 13, 2000

He really was a good-looking guy before all of the surgery, too. Or even at the time of Thriller -- he'd already had some surgery then, but he still looked good. I remember girls at my high school going on about how cute he was.
posted by litlnemo at 3:38 PM on December 13, 2000

Wow.
posted by th3ph17 at 4:51 PM on December 13, 2000

All previous complaints by members of MetaFilter have been superceded. Please post nothing except political links form this point forward.
posted by donkeymon at 5:13 PM on December 13, 2000

Order of thoughts once I viewed said photo.

1. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
2. He's a clown!
3. He's Diana Ross's twin!
4. His name isn't Prince, and he isn't funky!
5. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
posted by hijinx at 5:19 PM on December 13, 2000

He supposedly got vitiligo [pigmentation disorder] for awhile and it thoroughly bleached his skin

I had a friend in elementary school who went through the same thing, and it wasn't a good experience for him, either, but during the interview with Oprah (? I think it was her, around the time his album with Black or White came out) which was when I found out about it, he also said that he used makeup to cover it up, to even out his skin tone.

For that I can feel sympathy for him, but for absolutely mangling his face - to be frank I'm surprised he's still actually able to grow facial hair at all - I don't feel sympathy. He did that to himself.
posted by cCranium at 6:09 PM on December 13, 2000

I keep thinking about the scene from the Three Kings, "What happened to Micheal Jackson?"
posted by john at 6:16 PM on December 13, 2000

Oh well, at least Queen's in too. Finally.
posted by fvw at 1:46 AM on December 14, 2000

hey, MJ, shave.
posted by jamescblack at 8:38 AM on December 14, 2000

*shrieks* OMG!!!! I'm seriously going to pee my pants here guys!!!!! LOLOLOL!
posted by FAB4GIRL at 6:15 PM on December 14, 2000

(It's quiet in the infamous Michael Jackson MetaFilter thread for over ten days. Zach comes across the link to MJs face by pure accident.)

"..wha? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! deep breath... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! deep breath... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! deep breath... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

(passes out)
posted by ZachsMind at 10:11 PM on December 24, 2000