RE: Not My Lover
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There's probably more good musicians and sports people (and probably other celebrities too and probably even famous) who had perfectly normal backstories that didn't involve beatings and being driven into the ground XP they're much less "interesting" from a storytelling standpoint though as they also tend to be a bit more balanced/grounded/at least somewhere in the realm of "normal".
And while far away from music, I've noticed kind of the opposite in the sport I'm in where difficult childhoods just put up more and more and more barriers for entry. There's a literal handful that I know of that moved to other gyms because they were really good and getting hounded by the state gyms/and/or wanted to be more srs bsns, and a lot more kids that were very talented and would have done really well that dropped out because of lack of money or inability to reliably get there or whatever.
I remember listening to a bit of MJ growing up, we had some best of album (or something, there were 4 cds in it from memory) that got played a lot. When this movie came out some songs appeared on Youngest's playlist including one where I recognised his voice but not the song (because I'm not a dedicated fan I haven't heard every single song). I'd say we haven't seen it yet but I don't know if we will given that we almost never go to the cinema XD I only ever go when sibling dearest is up on holiday and drags me because she enjoys her movie experiences (and the tub of popcorn as big as her head).
Glad you enjoyed it, sounds like there were a lot of people there that would have been happily nostalgic :)
Maybe, but often even the people I know personally who are great at something, had an "above average" amount of hardship in their early lives. The extremes get the attention of course, but I think there is something to it.
For sure. This is what happened to me as a kid with hockey, where I couldn't reliably get there. However, perhaps if I was going to be great, I would have found a way?
"Best of" pretty crazy, eh?
I get those sideways looks because I eat all the popcorn. But last night, I didn't have any candy!
Yeah, It seemed like people felt good after the film, which is interesting considering we mostly know what happened for the next twenty years after it ended.