young michael only answering questions when janet parrots it to him and only looking at janet
2x bc it was long asf.
As far as i can tell he only did this twice in interviews. In 1980 and 1981 with john pidgeon and steve rosen. You can watch the full audio interviews and also john and steve’s retelling of the experience calling it ‘bizarre’ and how confused they were. Steve thought he was being pranked. According to them both janet and michael didn’t look at them ONCE and only at each other. Janet was 14 and 15 in these interviews.
George michael says michael did the same thing after thriller, only speaking to him through his manager during a meeting for a charity proposal he had and felt that michael was very rude. Some type of power play? forced strangeness? We know he did a lot of stuff on purpose for the ‘eccentric’ title but this was before thriller. Or genuine shyness/anxiety and natural weirdness. So unique.