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"Tabloid Junkie" is a pop song performed by American recording artist Michael Jackson. The song appeared as the eleventh track on Jackson's ninth studio album, entitled ''HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I'', which was released in 1995 as a two-disc set. The song was written, composed, and produced by Michael Jackson, Jimmy Jam (James Harris III) and Terry Lewis. The song received generally positive reviews from music critics. "Tabloid Junkie" is a pop-rock song, with lyrics that pertain to media bias and negative coverage of rumors about Jackson and his personal life, similar to previous songs recorded by Jackson. "Tabloid Junkie" is the seventh song on ''HIStory: Past, Present And Future, Book I'' to be aimed at the media.〔 The track was not released as a single. == Background == Similarly to "Leave Me Alone" (1987) and ''HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I'' album tracks, "They Don't Care About Us", "Scream" and "This Time Around", amongst others, "Tabloid Junkie", co-written by Jackson, shows Jackson's dissatisfaction with the media, particularly the tabloids, because of the bias and negative media coverage of false rumors and the 1993 child sexual abuse accusations made against him.〔 Ever since the late 1980s, Jackson and the press did not have a good relationship. In 1986, the tabloids ran a story claiming that Jackson slept in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber to slow the aging process, with a picture of him lying down in a glass box; Jackson stated that the story was untrue.〔 When Jackson bought a pet chimpanzee Bubbles, the media viewed it as evidence of Jackson's increasing detachment from reality. It was reported that Jackson had offered to buy the bones of Joseph "The Elephant Man" Merrick; Jackson stated that the story was false.〔〔Taraborrelli, p. 355–361〕 These stories inspired the nickname "Wacko Jacko", which Jackson acquired the following year, and would come to despise. Jackson stopped leaking untrue stories to the press, so the media began making up their own.〔Taraborrelli, p. 370–373〕 In 1989, Jackson released the song and music video "Leave Me Alone", a song about his perceived victimization at the hands of the press.〔Taraborrelli, p. 365〕 The video shows Jackson poking fun at both the press and himself.〔 In the video, there are newspapers with bizarre headlines, Jackson dancing with the bones of "The Elephant Man", and an animated nose with a scalpel chasing it across the screen.〔Taraborrelli, p. 413〕 In August 1993, the relationship between Jackson and the press soured entirely when he was accused of child sexual abuse. Although never charged with a crime, Jackson was subject to intense media scrutiny while the criminal investigation took place. Complaints about the coverage included the media using sensational headlines to draw in readers and viewers when the content itself did not support the headline,〔Campbell (1995), p. 42–45〕 accepting leaked material from the police investigation and of Jackson's alleged criminal activity in return for money,〔Campbell (1995), p. 77–80〕 a lack of objectivity〔Taraborrelli, p. 500–507〕 and using headlines that strongly implied Jackson's guilt.〔 At the time, Jackson said of the media coverage, "I will say I am particularly upset by the handling of the matter by the incredible, terrible mass media. At every opportunity, the media has dissected and manipulated these allegations to reach their own conclusions." Jackson began taking painkillers, Valium, Xanax and Ativan to deal with the stress of the allegations made against him.〔Taraborrelli, p. 518–520〕 When he left the United States to go into rehabilitation, the media showed him little sympathy.〔Campbell (1995), p. 104–106〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tabloid Junkie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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