{"id":1619498,"date":"2022-08-22T20:17:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T00:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1619498"},"modified":"2022-08-22T20:17:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T00:17:11","slug":"you-didnt-earn-it-michael-jacksons-family-upset-rolling-stone-calling-harry-styles-the-new-king-of-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-didnt-earn-it-michael-jacksons-family-upset-rolling-stone-calling-harry-styles-the-new-king-of-pop\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You Didn\u2019t Earn It\u2019: Michael Jackson\u2019s Family Upset Rolling Stone Calling Harry Styles \u2018The New King Of Pop\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyou-didnt-earn-it-michael-jacksons-family-upset-rolling-stone-calling-harry-styles-the-new-king-of-pop%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1619498&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Late superstar Michael Jackson\u2019s family is making it known they aren\u2019t happy about Rolling Stone magazine\u2019s latest cover featuring Harry Styles, labeling him \u201cthe new King of Pop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The October cover of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/harry-styles-harrys-house-dont-worry-darling-my-policeman-cover-1397290\/\">UK Rolling Stone magazine<\/a> was posted on Twitter Monday, featuring the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/harry-styles\">28-year-old singer<\/a> wearing an ivory-colored coat with shimmering pink sequined shorts. The message on the cover read, \u201cHarry Styles: How the new King of Pop set the music world aflame.\u201d It can be seen <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RollingStoneUK\/status\/1561684956300152833?s=20&amp;t=M_RZthu1BKnstVsJqBzLVw\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no new King of Pop,\u201d the late singer\u2019s nephew Taj Jackson tweeted about the cover featuring the former member of One Direction. \u201cYou don\u2019t own the title [Rolling Stone], and you didn\u2019t earn it, my uncle did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDecades of dedication and sacrifice,\u201d the tweet added. \u201cThe title has been retired. No disrespect to [Harry Styles], he\u2019s mega talented. Give him his own unique title.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There is no new King of Pop. You don\u2019t own the title <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RollingStone?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RollingStone<\/a>, and you didn\u2019t earn it, my uncle did. Decades of dedication and sacrifice. The title has been retired. No disrespect to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Harry_Styles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Harry_Styles<\/a>, he\u2019s mega talented. Give him his own unique title. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/td6SSSVkfX\">https:\/\/t.co\/td6SSSVkfX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Taj Jackson (@tajjackson3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tajjackson3\/status\/1561778102010650626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And he wasn\u2019t the only person who took issue with anointing the \u201cWatermelon Sugar\u201d hitmaker with the title of \u201cKing\u201d of pop music. Styles solo career started with his self-titled debut album in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>One person tweeted, \u201cbeing called the \u2018new king of pop\u2019 while not even being close to what Michael Jackson was is sick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no such thing as the new King of Pop,\u201d another tweeted. \u201cMichael Jackson holds that title forever. This is so embarrasing wtf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One Jackson fan posted a former cover of the Rolling Stone magazine from its 2003 Yearbook calling pop star Justin Timberlake \u201cThe New King of Pop\u201d to get their point across.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">lol, what? Nothing against Harry Styles, but he&#8217;s not the new King of Pop. That title still belongs to Michael Jackson. You lot called Justin Timberlake the same thing &#038; that was also a huge fail. Stop trying to take the crown away from MJ. It&#8217;s not happening. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I6VKBV4ZoJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/I6VKBV4ZoJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1Zrn2UZHJ6\">pic.twitter.com\/1Zrn2UZHJ6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sha Hartley (@shahartley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shahartley\/status\/1561743163219480577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLol, what?\u201d the person wrote. \u201cNothing against Harry Styles, but he\u2019s not the new King of Pop. That title still belongs to Michael Jackson. You lot called Justin Timberlake the same thing &#038; that was also a huge fail. Stop trying to take the crown away from MJ. It\u2019s not happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">a prerequisite to even coming close to being coined the \u201cnew king of pop\u201d is being black. cuz the current king of pop is black. meaning that\u2019s who you\u2019re \u201ccompeting\u201dwith. if you don\u2019t have to shatter racial boundaries, you cannot compete.<\/p>\n<p>cut the shit.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CHIKA \ud83c\udf2a (@oranicuhh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oranicuhh\/status\/1561802861800931328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This title belongs to the black man who worked his ass off since the age of 5, who was a veteran by the age of 15, broke racial barriers and revolutionized the music industry. Michael Jackson is THEE King of Pop of EVERY generation. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3jxtYWCHOa\">https:\/\/t.co\/3jxtYWCHOa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud835\udce5\ud835\udcee\ud835\udcfb\ud835\udcf8\ud835\udcf7\ud835\udcf2\ud835\udcec\ud835\udcea\ud83d\udcab | fan account (@iamveronica777) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iamveronica777\/status\/1561719975051636736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">rolling stone (uk) calling harry styles the king of pop is a very bold move considering the most notable person to hold the king of pop title is michael jackson. how do you put michael jackson and harry styles on the same level with a straight face.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 sk (@kirkxxs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kirkxxs\/status\/1561770478515232770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, the official Michael Jackson Twitter page, followed by millions of followers, shared a photo of the \u201cBeat It\u201d hitmaker gracing the cover of SOUL Newspaper in 1979 at the age of 21.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This week in 1979, \u201cMichael at 21\u201d was the cover story for SOUL Newspaper. Founded in 1966 in Los Angeles, this Black owned publication devoted to Black music, featured Michael on the cover several times, including his first solo appearance in August of 1970. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LVyrBITLG3\">pic.twitter.com\/LVyrBITLG3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Jackson (@michaeljackson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaeljackson\/status\/1561745008499167233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/michael-jackson\">Jackson<\/a> died at the age of 50 in 2009 following nearly four decades of hits as a solo artist starting in 1971.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late superstar Michael Jackson\u2019s family is making it known they aren\u2019t happy about Rolling Stone magazine\u2019s latest cover featuring Harry Styles, labeling him \u201cthe new King of Pop.\u201d The October cover of the UK Rolling Stone magazine was posted on Twitter Monday, featuring the 28-year-old singer wearing an ivory-colored coat with shimmering pink sequined shorts. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":460286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1619498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}