I think it wasn't even on this site that I read it, but rather at the Org.

(Don't ask what I was doing there... I think I was actually searching for info on Dam and thank link showed up. And after reading through the responses to it that you can expect to get over there, I came away from it feeling quite negative.)

That said: I think it IS rather reductive and dismissive to sum up MJ as "an entertainer who chased the pop hit."

Not that MJ was NOT very interested in hits, like most professional recording artists... and not that MJ was NOT an entertainer (Prince is, too).

But in these Prince vs. MJ debates, when people evoke the term "entertainer"... we both know that it's code for a very specific--and inaccurate--notion about MJ that they are trying to express.

Other than that, I don't care whether he likes MJ or not... we've all got the right to our own preferences.