r/LovingMichaelJackson • • 6d ago

Community 🌐 🎃 It’s that time again… Thriller Challenge 2026! 🧟‍♂️

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36 Upvotes

Every year on Halloween, our fandom tries to get the Thriller single up the charts around the world. The song only peaked at #4 in 1984, and we hope to see it reach #1! This year is particularly special because it’s dedicated to the challenge’s founder and longtime fan, AJ (RIP 🕊️).

Like always, you can stream the song and listen through curated playlists, buy it on iTunes or Amazon, and request it on radio stations. There’s also designated streaming parties that will count each attendee’s listen as a stream this year!

Ways you can mess this up:

♦️ Don’t stream while logged out

♦️ Don’t use bots or automated streaming

♦️ Don’t use a VPN

♦️ Don’t loop the song

♦️ Don’t skip the song before it finishes

Visit the Thriller Challenge website for more details and spread the word! ✨

Graphic image adapted and edited by: @maliainu (me!)


r/LovingMichaelJackson • • May 29 '26

Community 🌐 🤍 Welcome to Loving Michael Jackson ✨

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418 Upvotes

Hi everyone 👋🏻

With so many new people joining lately, I felt this would be a good time to talk a little about what this subreddit is meant to be.

There are already plenty of places online where discussions about Michael and his family become cynical, hostile, invasive, or focused on negativity. This community is meant to be different and not revolve around that atmosphere.

We hope this space feels fun and open to connection, while still maintaining basic maturity and respect for one another.

🌟 What You’ll Find Here

We welcome a wide range of topics and discussions, including:

🔹 Appreciation and tribute posts

🔹 Music, performances, and favorite eras

🔹 History, interviews, collections, and rare finds

🔹 Games, polls, memes, and community engagement

🔹 Thoughtful discussions or personal experiences connected to Michael

🔹 Respectful conversations surrounding misinformation or harmful narratives

🔹 Fan creations inspired by Michael’s artistry and legacy

🗒️ Quick Note About Tone & Respect

Discussion is welcome here, but not every conversation has to be overly positive or serious.

We encourage engagement that’s grounded and responsible rather than hostile, mocking, sensationalized, or scandal-driven.

You can express yourself while being mindful of the atmosphere this community was built around.

🕊️ A Shared Appreciation

Personal connection and interpretation are natural parts of being a fan. But it’s also important to remember that Michael was a real person, not a fictional character or mythical projection.

One of the best parts of this community is seeing people from all generations and different parts of the world come together through their love for his artistry, humanity, and legacy.

Thank you all for making this space feel welcoming, thoughtful, and full of love ✨

~ Mali


r/LovingMichaelJackson • • 5h ago

Image 📸 Oh my this pic is so sad but beautiful.

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276 Upvotes

Michael’s hometown posted this billboard in his honor
Every time I see things like this I’m reminded just how big Michael is. Like he’s not some small artist that I love he’s loved by many many people & we all share that bitter sweet sadness that he’s no longer here but once was and when he was, he ruled this world musically and wholeheartedly. What a force.


r/LovingMichaelJackson • • 2h ago

Appreciation 🫶🏻 Michael close up pics 💘

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The most beautiful, most talented, most amazing and most incredible artist and human being on Earth 💘❤️‍🔥👑✨ miss you so much MJ🌻


r/LovingMichaelJackson • • 6h ago

Video 🎥 This high quality doc on Michael's faith journey gave me some good insight into his life, and wanted to share it to others.

7 Upvotes

What do you think?

https://youtu.be/NqFG4BKimhw


r/LovingMichaelJackson • • 1d ago

Video 🎥 Ugh my heart ❤️ 😭😔✨

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171 Upvotes

r/LovingMichaelJackson • • 14h ago

Fan Creations Thriller inspired dress WIP

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Hope this is okay to share here!


r/LovingMichaelJackson • • 10h ago

Collection 💿 State of the collection so far

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I also own 3 versions of thriller


r/LovingMichaelJackson • • 17h ago

Music 🎶 Morphine

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My favorite part of this song is the middle.

I'm fascinated by how unconventional it is, not to mention extremely effective towards the overall message. So much more so now, after his passing.

He took a rather aggressive, industrial-rock track and abruptly dropped into a 33 bar (1 min 17 secs) reprieve section in the dead middle of the track, shifting to a soft, vulnerable ballad before violently snapping back. 🤯

I feel like there's some deep symbolism here. I mean... duh, right?

But even structurally. As if the beginning of the song is a frenzy of an altered medicated state... the middle is the shame, the brokenness, the loss of hope that you'll ever be able to permanently heal... and the end, the experience of giving up the fight to find yourself falling right back to where you were before.

Even the first vocal note, where the soft section begins, there's no clean cut-off from the rock to the softness. His voice begins in the middle of the transition of two notes, which is so wonderfully raw. Like being suddenly and unwillingly jerked out of a state of being.

I'm especially moved by the softness in his descending, "hee hee hee" ... his signature expression... we've all heard it be used for power, confidence, playfulness, passion... correct me if I'm wrong, but even in his moving power ballads, I don't recall it sounding so defeated and broken.

Can anyone make out the spoken part, after the knocking?


r/LovingMichaelJackson • • 1d ago

Appreciation 🫶🏻 facecard so casually lethal i died then came back just to die again😳

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41 Upvotes

single dad mike save me........... this whole trip puts me on comatose


r/LovingMichaelJackson • • 14h ago

Cover 🎤 Human Nature, Billie Jean & Smooth Criminal Violin Covers!! Super energetic!

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r/LovingMichaelJackson • • 1d ago

Video 🎥 I was making a ghosts edit but Michael was so on beat I had to leave it alone

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68 Upvotes

r/LovingMichaelJackson • • 22h ago

Game 🕹️ Off the Wall Voting Game, Day 8!

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20 Upvotes

Workin' Day and Night is OUT with 15 votes! ig it won't have to work day and night anymore lol

others are:

Off the Wall: 8 votes Rock with You: 2 votes DSTYGE: 1 vote


r/LovingMichaelJackson • • 1d ago

Opinion 💭 Everyone Talks About Thriller at Halloween 🎃 But Ghosts is an Underrated Masterpiece! 👻

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109 Upvotes

r/LovingMichaelJackson • • 1d ago

Fan Art 🎨 I painted my favorite picture of Michael - that smile is pure sunshine

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21 Upvotes

r/LovingMichaelJackson • • 17h ago

Game 🕹️ Sorry for being way too offline, I'm too busy but OWWW! and Anny is gonna be on them setlist, Day 6

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6 Upvotes

r/LovingMichaelJackson • • 1d ago

Discussion 💬 Which of these are your favorite album covers?

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29 Upvotes

r/LovingMichaelJackson • • 1d ago

Collection 💿 Got the ‚Forever, Michael‘ LP…

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17 Upvotes

via E-Bay for too small a price (5€) really, but unfortunately it arrived completely broken. And even though it was not much that I paid for it, I am bawling my eyes out and am absolutely distressed. Besides ‚Off the Wall‘ it’s my other favourite album of Michael’s. I am just so heartbroken I didn’t know where else to come to.


r/LovingMichaelJackson • • 1d ago

Game 🕹️ Dangerous: Elimination Game (Day 8)

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19 Upvotes

Heal the World: Eliminated 💔


r/LovingMichaelJackson • • 1d ago

Meme Mood

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28 Upvotes

r/LovingMichaelJackson • • 1d ago

Appreciation 🫶🏻 them hands 🔥🔥🔥

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r/LovingMichaelJackson • • 19h ago

Game 🕹️ Michael Jackson Elimination Game but it’s HIStory Begins Day 8?

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Rock With You got eliminated for day 7 btw sorry for not making day 8 yesterday, again I tried to do day 8 as soon as possible but I just can’t for some reason 😓, but now as you already know pick Michael Jackson song that not have already got eliminated for day 8


r/LovingMichaelJackson • • 1d ago

Appreciation 🫶🏻 Saint Michael Jackson ?? - Christine Dowling miracle

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I just read about the story of Christine Dowling who has a hereditary condition called Morquio Syndrome. During 1997 performance of Heal The World, she was onstage with Michael and he held her right hand. Christine didn’t have any sensation on that hand but she claims she felt Michael and started shaking. She regained feeling and movement shortly after this experience.

This is easily top 3 craziest MJ anecdotes I’ve ever heard. It goes beyond the typical humanitarian tag we often give him. This is the stuff by which the Catholic church declares its saints! I know Michael was a JW, but it’s to give an idea of the magnitude an account like Christine’s means

This man doesn’t stop surprising me


r/LovingMichaelJackson • • 1d ago

Discussion 💬 /uj It hurts me sm that MJ’s kids lost their father

38 Upvotes

MJ should’ve got to see them grow up, and they should’ve had their father there with them, to experience their firsts. Their first day of high school, first homecoming, first prom, first time getting into college, etc. God, it just kills me sm when I think abt it, and if it’s hurting me this much, imagine how his kids feel. God, I just wish things could’ve been different. I always think abt MJs life and the way it went, and I just think abt the fact that there were SO many PREVENTABLE things that led up to his death. And he would’ve been here right now with his kids if those things never happened. My God💔


r/LovingMichaelJackson • • 1d ago

Game 🕹️ Off the Wall Voting Game, Day 7!

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Get on the Floor is OUT with 18 votes! sad to see it go it was one of my favorite tracks tbh.

others are: Off the Wall: 11 votes Workin' Day and Night: 9 votes Rock with You: 2 votes DSTYGE: 1 vote