were affected by his music and his life. and let s talk about just who he was. i mean, he was beautiful. he was sexy. he was soulful. in the 90s, he released this risque single i want your sex and at the time people don t realize, perhaps millennials, but that was pretty controversial back then. yeah, it was pretty controversial. and there was a sense, you know, there was some element of exactly how subconsciously controversial it was. it was really that heyday of mtv and you know, putting out a song like that and a video like that, it was bound to, you know, raise eyebrows, as you say. and create a ruckus. but yeah, it was a pretty harmless song for the most part. and he went out of his way to kind of, you know, tamp down some of the more kind of extreme responses to it. he was pretty responsible about that. and he also came out in an interview on cnn, this is back in 1998, and i want to play a quick clip of that and talk about that on the other end.
including father figure. i will be your father figure put your tiny hand in mine reporter: one more try. you reporter: and monkey. why can t you set your monkey free reporter: by the 90s, michael became a more serious artist, celebrating his independence from the pop machine. freedom, freedom reporter: refusing to appear in the video freedom 90 which featured cameos from top models lip-synching his lyrics. but the late 90s were rough for the pop icon, he was arrested by an undercover police officer and charged with engaging in a lewd act in a park in beverly hills. leading him to an interview with cnn saying he was gay in 1998. i don t feel any shame and neither do i think i should. reporter: in later years drug-related arrests and a nasty
one singles. including father figure. i will be your father figure put your tiny hand in mine reporter: one more try. you reporter: and monkey. why can t you set your monkey free reporter: by the 90s, michael became a more serious artist, celebrating his independence from the pop machine. freedom, freedom reporter: refusing to appear in the video freedom 90 which featured cameos from top models lip-synching his lyrics. but the late 90s were rough for the pop icon, he was arrested by an undercover police officer and charged with engaging in a lewd act in a park in beverly hills. sp leading him to reveal in a cnn interview that he was gay in 1988. i don t feel any shame and neither do i think i should. reporter: in later years
it was a big you weren t there partying. oh, yeah. late part of the 90s when i moved to new york city. but when you think about now, i can t tell if i like the videos or the songs or both of them equally as much. when you think about the i want your sex which is so controversial. yeah. then. but some radio stations wouldn t even play it. now it s no big deal especially considering what we said on our airwaves within just the last year about grabbing private parts and all those things. this is nothing. it s interesting how the culture evolved but interestingly he did not want to be portrayed as this sex symbol. got in a big legal bat with sony he lost the rights right. and that landed the supermodels in the video. yeah. what a voice. yeah. there you go. yeah. he will be missed. we ll talk about a lot. get me in trouble all right. definitely turning to much more serious news now. turning to politics. israeli prime minister benjamin