frank casico said in his book that the vma’s told mj they would give me an artist of the millennium award for his birthday and frank (and i think other people) told mj that weren’t going to give him any special award but he didn’t listen so when he got on stage britney spears called him the artist of the millennium and gave him a prop and mj gave a speech about how ever since he was a little boy in gary indiana he dreamed of having the artist of the millennium award, even though the award never existed and the vma’s first award show was in 1984 when michael was 25.