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Wit & Attitude Quote by Michael Jackson

"Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her"

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It lands less like a casual compliment and more like a small act of myth-making: Michael Jackson taking Elizabeth Taylor and polishing her into an eternal object. “Gorgeous, beautiful” isn’t original language; that’s the point. He’s not chasing nuance, he’s stacking superlatives the way pop stacks hooks - repetition as insistence, adoration as a refrain. The tell is “and she still is today.” Jackson isn’t only praising Taylor’s looks; he’s resisting the cultural script that women age out of icon status. In a celebrity ecosystem obsessed with expiration dates, he frames her beauty as enduring, almost untouchable.

The subtext is also autobiographical. Jackson, whose public image was relentlessly policed and who lived under a microscope that turned bodies into headlines, gravitates toward Taylor as a figure of glamorous survival: someone who had been both worshipped and shredded by tabloids and still emerged as royalty. “I’m crazy about her” reads like fan language, but it’s also strategic humility. Here’s the biggest pop star on earth choosing to be the admirer, not the idol, telegraphing loyalty and intimacy rather than dominance.

Context matters: Jackson and Taylor were genuinely close, and she defended him when others kept their distance. So this isn’t just star-to-star flattery; it’s a public signal of allegiance. He’s borrowing her old-Hollywood legitimacy and, in return, giving her a new kind of pop-era reverence - a cross-generational endorsement that says: some legends don’t fade, they fossilize into culture.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Jackson, Michael. (2026, January 18). Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/elizabeth-taylor-is-gorgeous-beautiful-and-she-847/

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Jackson, Michael. "Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/elizabeth-taylor-is-gorgeous-beautiful-and-she-847/.

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"Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/elizabeth-taylor-is-gorgeous-beautiful-and-she-847/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Michael Jackson (August 29, 1958 - June 25, 2009) was a Musician from USA.

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