Michael Jackson' Face

That was his face before death. And after many surgeries.

Didn’t it come out after he died that he did actually have thay discoloring disease? He had brown patches still on some parts of his body.

DL is becoming tiresome thanks to threads like this.

R1, he has depigmented patches of skin.

The condition is called Vitiligo, and causes areas of skin to reduce in amounts of melanocytes, causing areas of skin to appear discolored in comparison to the original skin color held by the person who is afflicted with Vitiligo.

According to court documents released by the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department, a search warrant was served to MJ, where he was required to disrobe, in order to be photographed for the purpose of corroborating statements given by witnesses for the Prosecution, who & which described Jackson’s skin condition.

It was observed that Jackson did indeed, have the appearance of a person who presented Vitiligo, when completely disrobed.

R3 - look up “passive voice” in a grammar book, and then stop doing it.

Go lie down OP.

He still looked better than Donatella Versace.

He looked his best during the "Thriller" period.. then got crazy with the surgeries, looking scarily bizarre.

Wearing the “I’m a whore” red lipstick really makes the look.

R4, how do you active voice on an event that happened decades ago and regarding a dead man?

Passive voice: "It was observed..." Question: By whom? Who did the observing? Try again, please.

It's the face of a black man who desperately wanted to be white, and who went on a many years trek with plastic surgeons and skin bleachings to wipe away as much of his blackness as possible.

In other words, he was a mental case and that is one of the forms his mental illness was displayed.

The face of severe Mental Illness.

His nose was a work of art.

Not everyone can be as beautiful and natural as Valeria Lukyanova.

Lovely Darling

Puts the freak in freak show.

MJ's hair, style, and nose were great during the Bad era. I think that was peak Michael, he was actually rather sexy.

Self-loathing.

Was very likely sexually abused when he was young, then became the abuser, like R. Kelly.

^r19 and Elvis.

R4, thank you for pointing it out. I take no issue with you for bringing passive voice to my attention.

That said, please read the Wikipedia entry below:

Jan Freeman, a columnist for The Boston Globe, said that the passive voice does have its uses, and that "all good writers use the passive voice."[21]

Passive writing is not necessarily slack and indirect. Many famously vigorous passages use the passive voice, as in these examples with the passive verbs italicized:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. (United States Declaration of Independence) Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. (King James Bible, Isaiah 40:4) Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun of York. (Shakespeare's Richard III, I.1, ll. 1–2) For of those to whom much is given, much is required. (John F. Kennedy's quotation of Luke 12:48 in his address to the Massachusetts legislature, 9 January 1961.)[22] Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. (Winston Churchill addressing the House of Commons, 20 August 1940.) While Strunk and White, in The Elements of Style, encourage use of the active voice, they also state that the passive is often useful and sometimes preferable, even necessary, the choice of active or passive depending, for instance, on the topic of the sentence.[23]

Another advisor, Joseph M. Williams, who has written several books on style, states with greater clarity that the passive is often the better choice.[24] According to Williams, the choice between active and passive depends on the answers to three questions:[24]

"Must the reader know who is responsible for the action?" "Would the active or passive verb help your readers move more smoothly from one sentence to the next? "Would the active or passive give readers a more consistent and appropriate point of view?"

I liked Puerto Rican Michael....around the Bad era. As he was transitioning from Black to White.

R10, I referenced who observed and why, in the previous paragraph.

r22 hahah, I'm going to start using that!

I hope she stops with the plastic surgery or else she'll look even MORE like MJ.

R25

Lol!!!