Art & Creativity Quote by Michael Jackson

A pop megastar’s complaint becomes a miniature business memo: negativity isn’t just a mood, it’s a market strategy. Jackson frames “negative things” as a deliberate choice made by “people” (read: tabloids, gossip columns, opportunistic critics) who assume outrage and scandal are the most reliable currency. The slightly blunt grammar adds to the effect: it sounds like something said offstage, in a defensive burst, not polished for quotation books. That rawness matters. It positions him less as a pop emperor and more as a person cornered by an economy that treats his private life as public inventory.

The twist is the sarcastic sting of “Good news to them.” It flips the usual moralizing about “bad media” into something sharper: a taunt. If negativity is supposedly the only thing that sells, then the purveyors of it deserve the trap they’ve built. “Good news… doesn’t sell” is both resignation and indictment, a bleak acknowledgment that positive stories struggle to compete with sensationalism. He’s not naively asking for kinder coverage; he’s pointing at incentives and shrugging at the outcome.

Context makes the line hit harder. Jackson’s career lived alongside an industrial-strength tabloid machine that fed on spectacle, rumor, and later, legal controversy. For an artist whose brand was wonder and uplift, the quote is a defensive thesis: the culture claims to want joy, but pays most reliably for damage.