THE MASH-UP OF MICHAEL JACKSON by Michael S. Malone
The death of a major cultural figure is always a time for taking stock.
This is true in part because an entire generation, now aging, helped to create their self-image in the reflection of that figure – and thus that individual represents a powerful source of nostalgia. At the same time, subsequent generations, who may have never seen that figure in his or her prime, still recognize him or her as emblematic of an era now gone, but perhaps better than the present.
So it is with Michael Jackson. Given what we already know about what kind of shape the singer was in when he died – indeed, he may not have even been able to sing anymore – his exit just before what now looks like a catastrophic 50-performance comeback at the O2 Arena outside London – begins to look like what cynics would call “a good career move.”
Now, instead of cancelling shows, or being exposed for lip-synching, or worst of all, looking decrepit on-stage, Jackson is now enjoying his biggest chart-run since “Thriller”. His reputation gets to enjoy the mass mourning of fans still young enough to succumb to hysteria, and, with the record downloads in the last few days of his songs as MP3 files, he also gets a brief toehold in the new world of Internet-based entertainment.
If Jackson’s ghost is watching all of the proceedings taking place, its one solemn prayer must be that the Web also doesn’t become the medium for global distribution of any morgue shots of his emaciated, surgery-scarred, balding corpse – because that would be the ultimate immortality buzz-kill. Michael Jackson can endure forever strange, but not forever old.
Like almost everyone else, Jackson’s death got me thinking about another era in my life in which his music was part of the soundtrack . . .and of the unrelenting passage of time.
I’m old enough to have seen the arrival of the Jackson 5, not as the last great Motown band – which it seems today in retrospect – but initially as a kind of novelty act, a Barry Gordy Hail Mary to try to prop up his musical empire as his established acts (the Temptations, Smokey and the Miracles, the Supremes) grew older, and the most talented acts (Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder) began to rebel under his heavy thumb.
It is also largely forgotten that the Jacksons weren’t alone as pre-adolescent singing prodigies: we’d already had the Cowsills and Partridge ersatz-‘Family’ a few years before, and little Michael Jackson had his squeaky-clean little white counterpart in Donny of the Osmond Brothers, also burning up the charts.
So, in that respect, the Jackson 5 really weren’t anything new. We’d already grown bored of those choreographed moves and matching costumes after a decade of the Temps, Pips, and every other R&B group. Even the songs were straight out of the Motown catalog, already the best in popular music – though the idea of a fourth grader singing about lost love with a carnal twist was a bit creepy.
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Jul 3, 2009 - 11:56 am 2. The Skizzerd of Waz:“Ours is not an age of originality”
Bingo!
Pardon me, but now I’m off to see the modern day remake of Gone With the Wind, set in present day Los Angeles and called Gone With the Santa Ana starring Eminem as Rhett Butler with Borat as Missy Scarlett.
I think the Terminator makes a cameo too?
Jul 3, 2009 - 12:19 pm 3. Sebastian Shaw:Really good article. I was in 6th grade when Michael Jackson hit his zenith with Thriller & it reached a fever pitch by 1984-1985 school year, although Thriller was released 2 years earlier; it was a slow burn to the top with the help of MTV providing Jackson with the venue to reach a wider audience than ever before. My 6th grade teacher was a big Michael Jackson too. Then, I had no awareness of Michael Jackson’s former life as part of the boy group, the Jackson 5. I just knew Michael Jackson the solo artist. A few of my classmates dressed up as Michael Jackson for Halloween. Heck, my younger sister wore a replica of Jackson’s glitter jacket made by mother! Mom still has the jacket in her closet to this day (not because she’s a fan, but the memory of my sister wearing it for Halloween one year).
I remember watching the Motown 25th Anniversary & Michael Jackson’s moonwalk. It was magic.
This type of magic does not last though; it is a fleeting moment in time. Eventually, the rot comes to the surface as Michael tried to relive the Thriller magic afterwards. It was sad. I kept seeing more & more anger coming out of Jackson, yet he had the opposite image. His anger consumed him in drugs until he died last week.
Once I grew up, I found Michael Jackson creepy; he literally wanted to be Peter Pan. I aslo was creeped out with his fascination with young boys. Neverland seemed like bait for innocent children.
Jul 3, 2009 - 1:06 pm 4. Fred Suggs:, the Stones from “Satisfaction” to “Sticky Fingers” and Bob Dylan from “Blowing in the Wind” to the motorcycle crash. Everything after that is, to one degree or another, self-parody and aftermath.
While I have a theory that most great musicians have about three albums that stand above their other work, the Stones and Dylan, like the old blues greats, continued to make great music that could still sometimes reach the heights they reached at the peak of their artistic fecundity.
BTW, the Stones three albums are Beggar’s Banquet, Sticky Fingers and Exile On Main Street.
In Dylan’s case, his output through Blonde On Blonde is astounding, a huge number of great, great songs in less than four years. The eponymously titled Bob Dylan was released in 1962. Between then and 1966, Dylan released Freewheelin’, The Times They Are a-Changin’,
Jul 3, 2009 - 1:17 pm 5. jw:Another Side of Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde on Blonde. Still, Dylan has had a number of ‘comebacks’ in his career. Among his post motorcycle crash works, Nashville Skyline, New Morning, John Wesley Harding, Planet Waves, Blood On The Tracks, Infidels, and Time Out Of Mind are all great albums that pretty much reach the level of his early greatness. In addition, the remaining albums in his discography contain some individually great songs, plus there are unreleased gems (well, originally unreleased) like Blind Willie McTell.
I have never understood Michael Jackson’s popularity and am watching videos on TV to do so. The last one was made of his full dress rehearsal two days before he died, and he seemed to be vigorous, in full health.
Jul 3, 2009 - 1:39 pm 6. Ronnie Schreiber:He had glitzy clothes, jumped around, and sang incomprehensible words in a falsetto. As a singer-dancer, he couldn’t compare with Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly.
Jackson wrote a few catchy songs with completely forgettable lyrics, that is, if you could make them out in the first place. As a performer, I’d say that he was good, but not of the rank of Sammy Davis Jr. He sold a lot of records and nailed his performance of Billie Jean on the Motown 25th show. Other than that, he was mostly fluff. Little of what he did was original – you can find a YouTube video of the moonwalk being done by dancers back to the 1930s, and in terms of musical sounds, Herbie Hancock was considerably more influential. I can’t imagine Off The Wall and Thriller without sounds that originated with Hancock’s work as well as Geo. Clinton’s funk.
You could argue that Jackson was more of a derivative than seminal artist. Usher and Beyonce are talented singers, but somehow it seems to me that Chuck Berry/Roy Orbison/Everly Brothers/Little Richard -> Beatles and Muddy Waters/Little Walter/Slim Harpo -> Rolling Stones seem like more consequential musical legacies.
I was already in high school when the Jackson 5 first hit. They were Motown’s bubblegum teenybopper band, and marketed to young girls. Meanwhile, as the article mentioned, at Motown Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye were making real music, and the FM rock radio scene was exploding as rock really flowered in the late 1960s and early 1970s. ABC and I Want You Back are cute pop tunes but not quite as serious works as Beggar’s Banquet or the Grateful Dead’s Darkstar. So it was easy to dismiss the Jackson’s as serious musicians, particularly with their stagedoor father manager.
As MJ became a huge star, it’s telling that he named himself the king of pop. While some pop music indeed is great, great music, let’s face it, most pop is superficial and lame. Ruling a kingdom of Britney Spearses is not quite on the level of the Algonquin Hotel’s famous roundtable.
When I think about a great pop musician, I think about Paul Simon. He got his start as a Brill Building songwriter and he’s written some absolutely perfect songs, songs that will be remembered as art long after Thriller is simply nostalgia.
Jul 3, 2009 - 1:46 pm 7. Strawman:It’s over already. This is what? PJM MJ thread #4? This horse has been dead for 15 minutes. Long live the…whatever it is that we’re all supposed to be getting exited over now.
Jul 3, 2009 - 2:56 pm 8. Ed Azlant:Hey Michael, very nice retrospective of MJ’s career. Mash-up indeed, what the post-modern folks call ‘pastiche’. Might I add a word of recognition for the R&B boy sopranos who proceeded him, like Frankie Lymon of the Teenagers and Little Anthony of the Imperials, both much better singers than MJ. Once a rock critic…
Jul 3, 2009 - 3:15 pm 9. Morrisminor:Watching “Thriller”, I kept waiting for all posse to come and blast all the zombies’ heads off. It was nothing more than a mash up of horror and teen movie cliches.
Jul 3, 2009 - 5:21 pm 10. msmalone:Ed Azlant:
Hey pal, it’s been many years. You still teaching film at De Anza College?
Mike Malone
Jul 3, 2009 - 5:23 pm 11. Realist:Editor-in-Chief
And was replaced by an ugly middle aged drug addicted paedophilic white woman who BOUGHT three white babies as playthings.
Jul 3, 2009 - 7:33 pm 12. kenny komodo:Please, enough about Jackson already. He’s dead and soon to be buried unless his dad thinks he can milk a few more millions out of his “fans” by creating a living memorial with the preserved body on view for all to see for all time. I’m sure his family has already though of this and are even now counting the money that they might see if they do something like this.
Jul 3, 2009 - 11:15 pm 13. Berlet98:In Response to Michael Jackson Article
The following was submitted as a comment on my July 2nd piece, “Jacko Wacko Bites the Bullet, Re-locates to a Toasty Neverland,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1092. It is followed by my rebuttal and a brief dissenting point of view.
“In your article you repeatedly bash, berate and then label as idolaters those who hold the musical accomplishments of Michael Jackson in high esteem when for many nothing could be further from the truth.
I take offense to your generalizations and am amazed at how many of your assertions, not just those concerning the fans who you perceive have given themselves over to idolatry, are based on your feelings, personal preferences and tastes and not on fact.
It is apparent that your knowledge of music and music history is lacking, but you, instead of giving ear and some credence to the opinions of others more learned in this area of knowledge, choose to instead to throw the proverbial baby out with the bathwater and refuse to attribute any talent to the man and castigate others who don’t feel as you do.
Perhaps you’d do well to receive education on the matter of how Michael Jackson’s talent indeed played a great roll in the evolution of pop music. Your personal tastes in the arts may not be in line with what he has to offer, but that doesn’t negate the fact that he has talent. I do not like the German composer Richard Wagner’s anti-Semitic and Nazi-leanings, but I can appreciate his immense skill and ability and cannot deny that he influenced the development of European classical music.
There are actors in Hollywood who may possess a lifestyle which some fans may find abhorrent yet regardless the admirer cannot deny the veracity of the actor’s skill and that some actors have even impacted society.
Concerning the above, we can choose not to listen to the music or watch the films which display these artists whose lifestyle and political opinions we detest — we can even seek to sway others to boycott their expressions of their craft as it’s a free country, but to deny their abilities is just plain ignorant.
Don’t get me wrong, people who hold Michael in high esteem in his musicality doesn’t mean they necessarily approve of his lifestyle, choices, and yes, of course horrific acts on children (of which he was found not guilty). These are issues open for individual decisions. You cannot generalize about the group of supportive fans, as you have done. However, you must appreciate that many believe he was one solid hunk of talent, fans or no.
Please be not so quick to cast dispersions upon the masses who find that Michael’s life, for better or for worse, did greatly affect the history of music. His title The King of Pop, though perhaps disregarded by you and even by some his supporters, seems to me to be a designation which consolidates and acknowledges all that he has offered pop culture.
Some fans extract the musical contribution of Michael, while others accept the entirety of who Michael Jackson is. You can’t paint the many shadings of Jackson fans with one brush or deny the bedrock fact that Michael’s small frame housed one big talent.”
Rebuttal: I never intended in my article to detract from the talent that was Michael Jackson nor did I offer myself as a pop-music expert nor a judge of his talent which I concede was remarkable. So, too, has his influence and popularity been remarkable, comparable to Sinatra with his bobby-soxers and to Elvis with his fans of my generation and beyond.
Instead, my focus was on Jacko’s far less than admirable qualities and issues and referenced his father as quite possibly responsible for some, not all, of them. I pointedly referred to Jackson’s talent a number of times and conceded my gross lack of qualification to evaluate Jackson the Performer.
However, I still have to stick with my contention that most, not all, but too many of his devotees can fairly be described as idolators. How else do we explain their easy dismissal of such things as payoffs to victims of his pedophilia in favor of their unfailing support for him and his music?
How else do we explain their acceptance . . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)
Jul 3, 2009 - 11:47 pm 14. baluc/ka:Just as Michael peaked in 1984, in came hip hop’s rise with Run DMC (remember “Walk this Way” with Aerosmith in 1986?), and its eponymous “sampling” of other artists’ music.
I think had Michael had gotten ahead of the curve on that genre instead of simply retreading his music with “Bad”, “Dangerous” who knows what the state of hip hop music would be today. (much in the same fashion how MJ got ahead of the moonwalk dance. I was already seeing done by breakdancers before his Motown appearance)
Right now hip hop has been usurped by ganster rap with its homophobic, misogynistic and nihilistic themes. Tupac and Biggie came on the scene in the early 90’s and its style has stayed that way ever since.
He fashioned himself the “King of Pop”, but he dressed like a soldier/general. I wish his attire was more monarch like-with crown, cape, scepter with some African variation on the theme. He liked to cover his face, but he could have done one better by being carried as they do in some Asian culture where a couple of men carry the royal in a covered box.
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Jul 4, 2009 - 9:26 am 16. Ed Azlant:Mike, you have an excellent memory. I’m retired from teaching. Will look for you at Starbucks. Ed
Jul 4, 2009 - 1:37 pm 17. Jason S:Al Sharpton’s appearance immediately after MJ’s death made me think:
Here is a man who has tried every day of his life to divide people along racial lines mourning the death (by showing a picture of himself with MJ – it has to always be at least somewhat about Al) of a man who brought people together regardless of race without even trying.
How fitting that in the same week the Supreme Court acknowledged the different form of discrimination that has arisen out of affirmative action relics of a different and bygone era.
We should really be saying RIP to Al Sharpton (figuratively of course) and affirmative action (hopefully quite literally). But I have a feeling the race pimps will not go quietly into the night.
Jul 5, 2009 - 6:32 am 18. NCBob:Jackson’s death is a golden opportunity for all the scammers and con-men in the country. Some one has already squatted on a bunch of Jackson related domain names and is selling them on eBay.
Jul 5, 2009 - 9:34 am 19. Berlet98:All over the country, there are guys printing and selling counterfeit tickets to Jackson’s memorial service.
I’ll sit this one out.
Wacko Jacko, the Saga Continues with a New Video
As the faithful flock to California from far and wide to join in the obsequies for the King of Pop by getting a free ticket to the Staples Center, L.A. prepares for chaos.
The raffle registration for the “Michael Jackson Memorial Service” on Tuesday has already ended. The 11,000 seats at Staples, 6,500 at the Nokia Theater, have already been awarded to the lucky lottery winners and the unfortunate millions of losers will be forced to watch the spectacular on the boob tube.
Popes and presidents are more easily and less visibly buried.
Two thousand five hundred of the freebies were allotted to Jacko’s family to be distributed at their discretion. Whether Daddy Joe Jackson will be invited is still up in the air.
Grieve not, losers. Word is you wouldn’t be able to catch a final glimpse of the King since his corpse will probably not be available for public viewing anyway: http://abcnews.go.com/US/MichaelJackson/story?id=7995129&page=1.
I anticipate a circus atmosphere at the event, if not chaos and rioting by those denied access. If the planners had thought about it, the more proper venue would have been the far more spacious Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, home to the USC Trojans. There, however, a rainout would have produced even worse chaos.
For some reason, I’m not privy to the details of Jackson’s funeral, although I would assume film clips will be incorporated in the extravaganza.
Certain clips and videos will all but certainly not be considered for inclusion: the Bashir interview (see http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1092), and one recently outed in the UK showing Jacko squirming and evading in a 1996 chat that delved into his “nasty” sex life: . . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)
Jul 5, 2009 - 9:44 am 20. Rick:Michael Jackson died??!!!
When did that happen?!
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Jul 6, 2009 - 12:13 pm 23. Freedom is Just Another Word:I grew up as a Jehovah’s Witness. I left the religion at about 17, to attend college which the religion didn’t endorse. I have a different perspective on the Jackson family than most of you, and I’d like to share it.
Like so many Jehovah’s Witnesses, my family life was less than desirable. My childhood was filled with books and daily talks of Armeghedon imminent threats. That everyone on earth, even the “good” worldly people, were going to die a terrible death. Only those JWs that were super good would live on a Paradise Earth and a further 144,000 of these special people would assent to heaven. To say that we did everything in our power to “be good” is an understatement. Not only did we work to please God, we worked extra hard to be good in the elder’s eyes.
Unfortunately, my father did not have to be super good. Although a JW, the religion gave a nod to fathers who beat their children and wives. It was a private matter that the church would not intervene. The father, even a worldly father like Michael’s dad, had the lead role to do everything in his power. Wives are told that they must submit to their husbands, and even if beaten to a pulp, are told to remain humble. The reason is to show the husband love, so he will change. It is also common practice to beat one’s child to “sit still” at the two hour long meetings. Children are taken to the “spanking room” until they submit.
Pedophilia is also rampant. NBC Nightly News and Nightline have done stories on it. The Watchtower Society even has a form to report such abuse as it’s called into headquarters. The WTS has told families to not report sexual abuse to the police, as it brings reproach on Jehovah and is against the scriptural commandment that no crime is committed unless 2 people witness the abuse. Because claims innocence, there is not enough proof to go to the police. The WTS does “report” to the police where state law dictates, but they do so as an anonymous phone call placed from a phone booth.
Most of all, JWs must obey every edict of the religion. Just saying that you disagree with a dogma, means excommunication and shunning. Also, talking to an excommunicated person is also grounds to get oneself excommunicated.
It is not surprising that Latoya Jackson’s book claims that Michael tried very hard to be a good JW, to go to every church meeting even when on tour, to go “door-to-door”, to keep the elders happy, swirls of pedophilia surround him, pure goodness facade used when needed, childhood abuse by both parents, etc. Latoya reports that Michael left the religion when the elders told him he could not talk to Janet (excommunicated).
Latoya’s incredulous story is highly credible to me. It’s a tale that those “in the world” think is kooky. I read the books of other ex-JWs, and we all tell the same tale. This high control religion exacts the same experiences on all who come to the Kingdom Hall. I only hope that his kids are not raised this way. Please, Diana Ross, take them into your arms.
Jul 6, 2009 - 2:43 pm 24. Freedom is Just Another Word:I’d like to add on to my above post.
The music of Michael Jackson changed as his spiritual side did. The early songs are innocent. Thriller, and its video, were very anti-Jehovah Witness.
Jehovah’s Witnesses DO NOT do anything that would remotely worship the afterlife, the devil, demons, etc. They are very wary of anything that could be demonic. Halloween is not celebrated at all. Jehovah’s Witnesses do not go to garage sales, because they are afraid that demons may have infiltrated the furniture and items inhabited in worldly people’s hoes. So when Michael produced Thriller, it was the antithesis of his not being in the same mindset as the Jehovah’s Witnesses. It was his rebellion to the elders who wanted Michael to stop his performances because the world was making him into an idol.
Regardless, I find it interesting that his parents are making him have a Jehovah’s Witness funeral. He had converted to Islam, afterall. The reason the parents are doing this funeral is for their own satisfaction. In the JW religion, almost all who die before Armegheddon will likely be ressurected into the Paradise and given a second chance. Only those who were formally “disfellowshipped” by the elders from the Watchtower Society will not be resurrected. Since Michael was not formally disfellowshipped, he is still somewhat “in” the ressurrection group. Especially, if he’s given a Jehovah’s Witness funeral, it gives the mother hope that she will see Michael in Paradise.
The Jehovah’s Witness religion gives parent the job to make sure their children grow up to become JWs. Their books show that the children of those not in the ark were killed, and puts the blame on the parents. Mrs. Jackson carries alot of guilt, especially after her son converted to Islam. Giving him a JW funeral is an attempt to show the other JWs that she believed Michael to be a Jehovah’s Witness (and to absolve her own guilt).
Jul 7, 2009 - 5:15 am 25. Freedom is Just Another Word:In an interview, Michael said his favorite song of his was “Childhood”. He said that the lyrics had the meaning of his life in it.
The lyrics of this song are about him NOT having a childhood and him trying to make up for this in his adult life.
In his childhood, he was a Jehovah’s Witness. In his older childhood and teenage years he was also a rising star. What about that life caused him to not have a childhood?
Certainly, some childhood stars claim that they missed their childhood.
But, did you also know that Jehovah’s Witness children claim that they also missed out on their childhood, required to act like “disciples of Jehovah” and to be little adults?
Did you know that courts, looking after the best interest of the child, take into account the impact of the Watchtower Society’s mandates in divorce hearings? It goes beyond no holidays, no Christmas, no birthdays, no mother’s/father’s day, no organized sports, no cheerleeding, no dating until ready for marriage, no dancing to worldly music, no college, …. nada. The JW child is encouraged to “turn against” a non-JW parent. Shunning the non-JW parent is lauded. Only Kingdom work, suits & dresses, door-to-door, etc. are supported. See http://www.jwchildcustody.com
In the past two weeks, the Canadian Supreme Court decided that a 13 year old Jehovah’s Witness girl could not make the life-death decision to refuse a blood transfusion. Four of the Seven justices cited the closed Jehovah’s Witness environment that is fraught with coercion and admonishes its followers to avoid “independent thinking.”
Cult psychologist Steve Hassan (on major news networks) details the destructive nature of cults on children, and includes JWs as a cult. The reason include members are not allowed to question the religion, extreme “us” versus “world” mentality, extreme life sanctions for leaving, high innacuracies in literature, and a long laundry list of failed predictions.
Yes, I wholeheartedly agree. Michael Jackson had NO childhood. Jehovah’s Witness upbringing + childhood celebrity = one adult with alot of baggage.
Jul 7, 2009 - 7:21 am 26. PUK:Comments about Jehovah’s Witnesses in comment #23 & 24 are just rediculious. I’ve been a JW for 30 years and I’ve never been told to “not report child abuse” or “not to report anything illeagal” ! The Watchtower Society posted a comment years ago stating that Michael Jackson was ‘not’ a Jehovah’s Witness. Period. The poster of those comments admits that he ‘left’ the religion at the age of 17 so it’s obvious that he does not know the doctrine. Going to college is definately a ‘personal’ deicsion, not doctrinal, as is ‘Garage Sales’, as I have always worked the garage sales to raise a large family, etc. I am amazed at the bologna posted by non-active and X-witnesses, their emagination out-shines their lies.
Jul 7, 2009 - 9:37 pm 27. zion:I am a JW here in Southern CA, I left for eight years & now I returned and is very happy,The world is a waste of time. I hope to see Micheal Jackson along with my family in paradise,But the Most High Jehovah will decide that for everyone. I was very sadden to here of him go He had a heart full of love..It seemed Micheal he tried to live that way here on this earth as like in the soon paradise earth to come..I just saw the News with Micheal spiritual adviser Firpo Carr, who is a JW said that Micheal took him in a room and told him he wanted the children to be with his mother & for Him the spiritual adviser to study the bible with them so that they become come JW like Micheal was raised..I saw him say this last night on cnn & fox new..
Jul 8, 2009 - 2:04 am 28. michael jackson s ultimate cost for greatness:It’s also on YouTube…
As for the video Thriller Micheal was not going to released it but all the investors told him he had to because to much money was invested, He wrote the brothers and was sorry I read his letter it was really nice..
I will pray for his Family I love his Mother.
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Jul 26, 2009 - 5:26 am 29. Rosana:Michael Jakson of- stage was humanitarien,
Aug 3, 2009 - 2:58 pm 30. Doreen:softly spoken, very kind person, on the stage he become one with the One, he was a pure Cousciuosness of Love/ Energy.
Michael Jakson with his divine voice is like an ancient divine singer Orpheus ( Plato times), who was able to cast formless matter into form, Michael was also able to transform invisible Cousciuosness of Love to visible Energy of Love. MJ is like a Cry of light ( Egypt times), a singing Sun which created the world with the Though of the heart and Sound of the tounge.
Unfortunately the dark forces wanted to destroy MJ and they ironicaly used as a tool a child accuser to damage Michael in his most vulnerable part, that is the genuine universal love for childhood and children. Does this really not tell us anything?
Consequently Michael was badly tortured by mass media and police, and he started taking pain- mind control pills , becouse his heart was bleading to much.
In the end his heart stopped and he suddenly left us, his sudden death shoked the world , which might help for world to heal and the diseased collective ammnesia of humanity will hopefuly get cured and we will wake up and realise who we really are and what we have done to thouse who already knew who they were.
Michale Jakson, eternal thanks from all mine heart for all your unconditional Love and Light you gave us. Hope to meet you again- one day in some other place or time. And for the time being thank you, becouse your imprint of Love in our hearts will remain for always, regardless where you- we are.
You sound like a very bitter and unhappy person. A person who does not know how to give praise to anyone. You probably are insecure and don’t know how to see the good in anyone or anything. You only look for the bad or the negative. This in turn makes you feel good. What a shame, please seek out help ASAP. Music and dance brings happiness to people and MJ did that for people all around the world. You talk about MJ being a copy cat, just look at how the world has evolved. Everything is a copy. Generic foods, generic drugs, movies Part 1,2,3, etc., automobile copies, designer clothing copies, furniture copies and I can go on and on. Michael honored anyone he copied and learned from. Contemporary artists never honor anyone. Now that MJ has passed, we hear entertainer’s thanking MJ for what they have learned from him and that’s why they are where they are today.This country did MJ an injustice all in the name of $$$. The greed for $$$ is what will bring this country to its knees if people don’t start to change their ways. Michael wanted the people of this country and all around the world to love one another, help one another and to be kind to one another. Simple, love and kindness is what the world needs now. Let’s celebrate MJ’s life and the beautiful music, his dance and the kindness that he gave to the world.
Sep 5, 2009 - 6:23 pm