Yesterday's news
Jun. 26th, 2009 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wendyzskiGods I hope that somewhere up there, Farrah just bitchslapped MJ for stealing her newsday!
I confess, I stopped thinking of Michael Jackson (and pretty much his whole screwed-up family) as an actual person long ago. I remember the Jackson 5, and even the Saturday morning cartoons! And I was in High School and College in the glory days of MTV. I remember watching the "special premiere" extended Thriller video and how groundbreaking it was at the time. I appreciated the work he did with LiveAid and he made a lot of great music.
But I have to admit that at a certain point I really wished he'd just go away. By the 90s it seemed that every story was creepier, more mesed up, and more disturbing than the last one. Whatever prompted it - the usual issues of an aging child star, early abuse, the fact that fame and money allowed him to utterly retreat from the real world for so long - the truth is that he was a really messed-up guy. When he went to Dubai during that last round of legal troubles, I remember thinking "great - maybe we won't have to hear about him for a good long while".
All the OMG WE LOVED HIMMM!!! tribute stories on the news are really getting to me. True, he did some great things but also some profoundly disturbing ones. I hope he's at pease now because he sure as hell wasn't while he was here.
I confess, I stopped thinking of Michael Jackson (and pretty much his whole screwed-up family) as an actual person long ago. I remember the Jackson 5, and even the Saturday morning cartoons! And I was in High School and College in the glory days of MTV. I remember watching the "special premiere" extended Thriller video and how groundbreaking it was at the time. I appreciated the work he did with LiveAid and he made a lot of great music.
But I have to admit that at a certain point I really wished he'd just go away. By the 90s it seemed that every story was creepier, more mesed up, and more disturbing than the last one. Whatever prompted it - the usual issues of an aging child star, early abuse, the fact that fame and money allowed him to utterly retreat from the real world for so long - the truth is that he was a really messed-up guy. When he went to Dubai during that last round of legal troubles, I remember thinking "great - maybe we won't have to hear about him for a good long while".
All the OMG WE LOVED HIMMM!!! tribute stories on the news are really getting to me. True, he did some great things but also some profoundly disturbing ones. I hope he's at pease now because he sure as hell wasn't while he was here.
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Date: 2009-06-26 05:33 pm (UTC)With MJ - I can still enjoy some of his music as long as I don't even consider his life choices. I think that his life was the tragic result of that "child star" mentality. He was massively in debt and with children that will not inherit a penny in addition to losing their father. I actually feel rather sad for them, because I don't think that they'll ever escape the MJ legacy.