I find myself struggling to say something about LEAVING NEVERLAND beyond the obvious: It's a strange documentary about an even stranger world, it's incredibly hard not to believe the two men at the heart of the story (and I do), it's a painful and heartbreaking four hours of television, and it may or may not help bring an end to MICHAEL JACKSON's half-century-long pop music reign—if that's even possible. Like LIFETIME's SURVIVING R. KELLY, it moves a horrifying story, many of whose details you already knew, from your brain to your heart simply by putting it on television. It's one thing to read newspaper stories or books about Michael Jackson's legal cases; it's quite another to hear two men stare into a camera for four hours and tell you, in graphic detail, what Michael Jackson allegedly did to them when they were children. One of them, WADE ROBSON, was 5 when he met Jackson and 7 when he says the abuse started. Seven. Years. Old. There were toys, candy, popcorn, a cardboard cutout of PETER PAN and other such amenities in the numerous rooms at Neverland and elsewhere where Robson and JAMES SAFECHUCK say Jackson repeatedly molested them. You will not be able to shake that image anytime you hear—or don't hear—"ABC" or "LEAVE ME ALONE" for the rest of your life. Nor should you be able to shake that image. But it's also hard not to shake off the fact that director DAN REED chose to film a four-hour prosecution with no defense and little context. No one speaks on Jackson's behalf, and his estate's denial of Robson's and Safechuck's stories are never mentioned. (The estate is suing HBO, and counterprogrammed against the documentary Sunday night by posting a two-hour Jackson concert film to YOUTUBE.) Also left untouched by the filmmaker is the same-sex nature of the allegations, and the racial overtones. Writer, musician and cultural theorist GREG TATE notes that "many Blackfolk learned to compartmentalise Jackson the moment they saw the cover of THRILLER," and goes on to ask: "Would the brown-skinned, big-lipped, wide-nosed MJ who appears on the cover of OFF THE WALL have been allowed by white parents to have as much unsupervised time with their pre-tweens? Would he have been trusted to disappear into his mansion for hours days and nights with them?" And so, perhaps, the question isn't simply what does—and doesn't—Reed's explosive documentary say about the King of Pop, but also what does—and doesn't—it say about us? And could we cancel Michael Jackson's music even if we wanted to? MusicSET: "Leaving Michael Jackson"?... In other cancellation news: RYAN ADAMS' UK tour... How would EBAY selling STUBHUB work? Does a bot buy it on eBay and then mark it up and resell it on StubHub? Does StubHub take a cut out of both ends of the transaction? What is eBay's seller's rating?... The ACLU is asking COACHELLA to make its bathrooms accessible to transgender festivalgoers... GLASTONBURY is saying no to single-use plastic bottles... RIP TOM GOODKIND, STEPHAN ELLIS, JANICE FREEMAN and ED BICKERT.