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How should we hear Michael Jackson's music after 'Leaving Neverland'?

"You can't touch me 'cause I'm untouchable," Michael Jackson sang on his last real studio album, and for years that appeared to be true.

By the time Jackson released "Invincible" in 2001, he'd spent nearly a decade dodging suspicions of child sexual abuse. Evidence of his questionable behavior seemed to abound; a boy accused him of molestation in 1993 before settling the civil case out of court for a reported $23 million.

Yet in many ways nothing seemed to stick to Jackson, perhaps the biggest pop star the world has ever known. Though "Invincible" didn't achieve the omnipresence of his

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