PopMatters Music Feature | Manchild Revisited: Race Crusader or Falling Star? Michael "the self proclaimed King of Pop" Jackson has a complaint to make, and when this happens, people listen. Online journals like the Drudge Report can't wait to print Jackson's pronouncements, while rags like the New York Post (one step up from the gutter) can't wait to further discredit the now pathetic megalomaniac singer who won't accept the fact that these days most consider him to be an irrelevant freak show. But our very own modern Howard Hughes still sells in the low millions, still has fans and can't be totally dismissed. We all still wanna know the inside scoop on him, although we think we already know. And with Michael we do want blood because he has been so transparently phony and disingenuous, from his staged marriage to Lisa Marie Presley to his denials of misconduct with young boys. Anyway, today let's all be good citizens and hear what the 'once-great-always-great' music manchild has to say. Whatever Michael is these days, be it a suspected closet gay, or accused recalcitrant pedophile, or a knight in rusted armor out to save the record business, let's analyze his anti-music biz complaint very closely and be fair to him and Sony Music, too, although they deserve very little from me. (More on that later).