- Music
- 25 Jul 16
"I'm sorry for the bad things that his father did to him/But it doesn't add up to building a Willy Wonka trap for kids/And changing the color of your God-given skin"
Mark Kozelek really, really hates Michael Jackson.
In a new song with Jesu, the singer/songwriter known as Sun Kil Moon rips into the late pop musician. The chorus is particularly brutal: "He's bad and he's dead now, I'm glad/He's dead and to me it ain't that fuckin' sad".
'He's Bad' namechecks Jackson's baby-dangling incident, the moonwalk, and the multiple allegations of pedophilia against the deceased singer.
The song comes after reports that child pornography and animal abuse videos were found at Jackson's Neverland Ranch.
The song will reportedly be included on Kozelek's collaborative album with Jesu 30 Seconds to the Decline of Planet Earth, which will be out 1 June 2017. The album will follow the two's 2016 album Jesu/Sun Kil Moon.
The highly prolific Kozelek dropped the covers album Mark Kozelek Sings Favorites earlier this year.
Listen to 'He's Bad' here.