When I listen to a song and it hits me today, it just does. That song can be sang for a good artist that can also be a good person worth to admire in both be ways. Years later that artist become a bad person or does wrong shit, my criteria about the artist being a good person changes to an asshole...but that song that stays in my playlists cause my musical likes didn't change though my personal opinion and judgment certainly did.
That's what happens with Jackson, I'm not a fun either and certainly not a phedophilies supporter, but I like a couple of old songs he made and got to me way before the shity issues that came later.