Michael Jackson RIP

its a shit song

+1

:)

I was around in the 80s and don't recall anything sublime or phenomenal about him. Just another run of the mill popstar.

I never understood his star appeal either (although given his success he was of course not 'just another run-of-the-mill pop star'). Never listened to his music much except when it was unavoidable, always wondered why people bought all this stuff about him being the King of Pop. I for one have never particularly wanted a 'leader' in cultural affairs. I can understand why people were fascinated by his dancing, but that's about it--again, it never interested me much.

There's no question that he was a good entertainer, but he never moved me with his work. It did move me to follow his personal story, though, as I think that was quite tragic, and it goes without saying that sniping and cheap jokes are tasteless and completely wide of the mark.

Like many damaged people, he will have hurt others. There is a lot of outrage that eventually he didn't fit into people's preconceived image of the perfect human being with a lot of talent who is deservedly successful and might have enabled them to see a part of the world through rose-tinted spectacles forever. That the glittering heights which he reached are counterbalanced by his association with one of the worst crimes that we can imagine is a bitter pill to swallow for his fans (some of whom are in complete denial). Those who don't achieve so much that is acclaimed in public may have their seeming lack of achievement balanced by lesser iniquities, and wish that someone could overcome that undesired balance, but life isn't like that.

Who knows, his early death may well be for the best. Seeing how physically fit he must have had to be for his stage shows, with that unimaginable pressure on him to be perfect in every move, the fitness régime required could well have been too much for him. How much might he have disappointed come July 13?

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- The theme from the film Limelight [Charlie Chapli

He was the first icon of the MTV generation, he wrote the rules for pop videos, till this day around the world people are still doing the thriller zombie dance.
And that is just in my life time, he made 15 years of music before i was even born.

Fail for not recognising I was talking about other pop stars.

Eat it and Fat were classics..

Gary Glitter didn't have the benefit of a crack legal team and a highly suspect legal system which bowed to economic/industry pressure. Jacko paid off his accusers. Gary Glitter couldn't afford to.

Both guilty in my eyes.

Mike is going to be melted down and made into Lego so that kids will still get a chance to play around with him...

Right thats it!!! you were warned....you were warned but decided to go ahead with a repost anyway....

Storms off to fire up the EMP machine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPSZWRWa1Sg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMnk7lh9M3o

Today's Evening Standard.

14 pages before there's any real news.

Fuck.

can you get anymore Dail Mail than that?;

maybe the physical transformation took its tole in the end ....

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maybe the physical transformation took its tole in the end ....

You have a very good point, all the surgery and skin bleaching is bound to have shortened his life.

Some sources claim that Jacko hasn't been this stiff since Macaulay Culkin stayed at the neverland ranch.

I grew up with his music too but i also grew up with his outrageous public profile & the jokes were always there.

It's tragic what happened to him in larer life. He was obviously a very confused and strange man, but as all have said, his music will live on forever.

I bet his doctor is shitting bricks tho. And the jokes are ok, it's all part of the process when someone so famous dies.

Fair enough, he was never convicted. And maybe he was so developmentally stunted due to his childhood, or whatever else that was thrown at him, that he could only relate to children. The thing is, if it was anybody else, they'd be on a register or in prison.

The jokes are to be expected and are as extreme as most of the (sickening) outpouring that's been gushing from his fans and the media. But yeah, best thread ever!

best remembered in his thriller days i think when he was top of his game

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Jackson kicking the bucket does a good job of highlighting just how tabloid the BBC really are.
24 hour footage of people crying in Los Angeles and if that didn't do a good enough job of painting a picture of 'just how sad this really is' you have social commentators, Jackson biographers and finance experts all crawling out from the rocks they've been lying dormant under for decades, just waiting for their chance to be put under the spotlight to be seen pulling strings of adjectives out of their arseholes whilst they fumble around and try to remember what they're even talking about.
I understand this man was incredibly iconic but if the BBC really had their priorities even remotely close to what's actually affecting human beings in this world it would be a headline, he's died, the circumstances, very sad, 5 minutes then move on to everything else that is also ACTUALLY happening. It's like if one person hogged the conversation at the dinner table for 24 hours straight you'd tell them to fuck off. You wouldn't just endure it whilst trying to learn something important. I know it would be 'boring' if everyday we were reminded of how many tens of thousands of people had been made refugees, had their homes burnt down, women and children raped and lives completely torn apart each week but personally I find it truely offensive everytime ONE human being gets this much attention. He spent billions of pounds of antiques, toys, zoo animals, theme parks, vanity and self promotion. Sure, he gave loads to charity too but then you have to be seen to or else you can't make any more money. I don't see how people with any sense of perspective can shamelessly go out and buy all this crap for themselves whilst singing about healing the world.

sorry - had to get it off my chest.

@Hauska - no need to apologise for that. Well said.

We live in a highly unjust society, and extremely uneven distribution of goods is the order of the day. Naturally, this also spills over into the attention lavished on different people's deaths. What's new? You could decry the same underlying phenomenon every single day.

indeed.

c*nts.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00k3687/Newswipe_Episode_6/

thought this is big, wait till the hoff dies

hoff lives?

feel gutted...
3 kings
YouTube - Michael Jackson,James Brown,and Prince on stage (1983 )

boom.. what a man!

I just came back from a job interview and in the waiting area Sky News was on, which I was forced to watch. I felt embarrassed on Sky's behalf from just watching it.