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Post by Groink on Jun 26, 2009 10:14:15 GMT -5
Speaking of Liz Taylor she's also looking like she's soon to kick it. Her or maybe Diana Ross! That's so morbid! But...heh, we were having the same discussion at lunch and Diana and Liz's names came up.
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Post by Subuatai on Jun 26, 2009 10:31:58 GMT -5
R.I.P.
Great music, great moves. Too bad the media and people's greed proved the stronger in the end of the long fight.
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Post by vic on Jun 26, 2009 11:01:42 GMT -5
R.I.P. King of Pop, Icon, Genius
I hope he`s now found peace he never gained while living...
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Post by Maverick on Jun 26, 2009 12:12:07 GMT -5
Poor guy was obviously a pedophile.. he had all those fake relationships and fake children to cover up something.. his kids are white with blonde hair and blue eyes. So not his. My condolences to his fans.. he really was something great, back when his career was at its height. Do you have any concrete evidence of this? Where are the guilty verdicts? I'm playing devils advocate here....
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Post by rob on Jun 26, 2009 12:58:49 GMT -5
hey guys, Michael Jackson is dead. Spread the word on facebook
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Post by ChickenSoda on Jun 26, 2009 15:08:09 GMT -5
How else are we gonna make it about us?
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Post by Paddy on Jun 26, 2009 15:34:53 GMT -5
I saw him live in Singapore in 1993. It was the very day all the first child abuse allegation came out. He didn't turn up for the show. So we went back the next day. And Liz Taylor rolled into the stadium to show her support. What a night. Great show. What a blazing talent. RIP Heh I was there too, on the first day. I actually bought a t shirt too lol... Speaking of Liz Taylor she's also looking like she's soon to kick it. Her or maybe Diana Ross! Wow, that's cool. First time I've come across someone other than me or my mother who was there. And yeah I have the T-shirt too!! (though I'm usually pretty quiet about that - doesn't get much wear!). That was the first time I saw people with mobile phones. The Singaporeans were all waving their phones around so folks at home could hear the show!
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Post by jenbrook on Jun 26, 2009 16:30:25 GMT -5
Omg, my friend amma was there and she caught the towel he threw into the crowd! She still has it, its a prized posession.
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Post by rob on Jun 26, 2009 21:12:04 GMT -5
Poor guy was obviously a pedophile.. he had all those fake relationships and fake children to cover up something.. his kids are white with blonde hair and blue eyes. So not his. My condolences to his fans.. he really was something great, back when his career was at its height. Do you have any concrete evidence of this? Where are the guilty verdicts? I'm playing devils advocate here.... Have to love how Obama couldn't give MJ his due and had to throw in all the "sad and tragic" personality caveats to stay politically correct and appeal to as many ppl as possible.... this man panders par excellence Geesh - Even if he's a convicted pedo (which he isn't), when you're a f*cking music and cultural monolith, you get artistic license to do sh*t like that (even kill a few ppl).... and I haven't even gotten into the duplicity of US politicians/entertainers who've accomplished nothing in the order of what MJ has, but gotten away with far more and will get squeaky clean obits.
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Post by jenbrook on Jun 26, 2009 21:53:12 GMT -5
Woah, ok.. i've deleted my post. I didnt mean any disrespect by it, i just meant that i felt bad about his sexual orientation and that he had to spend his life in hiding. I repeat, poor guy.
Dont think his career would justify killing people though rob.. haha what kind of role model and cultural monolith would he be then?
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Post by Roam'n on Jun 27, 2009 2:43:11 GMT -5
I think most of us here are grew up pretty well adjusted... but I remember being a really young kid and having a certain amount of self loathing of my philo features (wide nose and tanned color)...
It seems he had the same feelings about his african heritage, but rather then accept and outgrow it, he latched on to it and happened to have the money and power to change it... hence the immense amount of plastic surgeries that masked his african features, and acquiring a very improbable 'skin disease' to lightened his skin color..... all the way down to having children that have a very scant resemblance to being mullato. I don't mean any disrespect from this, but it's all pretty obvious to me.
Then again I can't really judge his development ... since he never had a normal childhood; he was famous for a vast majority of his life... as he's been performing since he was 6 years old. I couldn't imagine what that would be like... it would be like a child-star syndrome times a billion.
I remember in high school when people people were arguing who was better: Prince or Michael Jackson: I didn't think it wasn't a real good comparison because they worked different sides of the spectrum: Prince was a musician first (he knew all the glitz and clothing came after the music), while MJ was a performer first and worked from the other direction. Both of them were very good at what they did. As the years past, Prince stayed grounded with the music (even while his fame rescinded), while MJ seems to have fed off his own ego; his investments and fame assuring him to be surrounded by 'yes' men throughout most of his adult life; hence his debt problems and such later on.
Nonetheless he's likely to be remembered as a figure that had immense appeal yet a tragic personal life that's now capped by an early death (yes 50 is very young in this modern society); very much like Elvis or Marilyn Monroe. He had a life that hardly anybody could even have even a glimpse of living. Sure, anybody can be famous (for a little while). Even more people can be rich. But almost nobody can live a life like Michael Jackson.
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Post by palaver on Jun 27, 2009 9:41:41 GMT -5
Only the bad politicians that get compared to entertainers. Entertainers might be great figures in the public mind, but no causes are lost with dead entertainers. The mourning of MJ's death and the death of other entertainers is like mourning the passage of an era--like the death of an Emperor which resets the calender year. The public goes through this public catharsis because there are few collective events that can arouse people from their own distractions.
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Post by toyomansi on Jun 27, 2009 15:11:41 GMT -5
I had this feeling that he would be the kind of person who would fake his own death and live out his years somewhere hidden.. ^_^'
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Post by ChickenSoda on Jun 27, 2009 21:37:53 GMT -5
My friend had a theory that he faked his own death to promote his upcoming CD. It's funny, because if you watch his interview at the announcement of his upcoming concerts, he says "And when I say this is it, I mean this is it... because um..." and then he starts laughing. In retrospect, that's really interesting in an either fake death/planned suicide kind of way.
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Post by Emily on Jun 27, 2009 23:10:19 GMT -5
^ Hah, my coworker also cooked up her own conspiracy theory. We were at work when news broke out (we have a tv always playing CNN in our waiting room) of his heart attack. She thought he was so deep in financial trouble that he was pretending he was sick and jetting off with all the money he must have made from his concert ticket sales.
As much as I also consider he was a musical genius, I wish the media would just shut up about this already, or at least stop focusing on his death. How many tributes, special shows, coverage can you have about one man dying? The resources and time could be spent otherwise...
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