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Posted on 2009-06-26 06:40:09
Bac
Hmmm... surprised I'm the first person to write about this here. I guess some of the world was asleep when he died.

It's an odd feeling to hear this. I haven't been a big fan of him ever except when I was a little kid. But he has been a pop-culture icon for decades now and I can appreciate some of his early work.

I think I was 6 or 7 when Thriller came out. The video scared my little brother half-to-death.

Pretty amazing news... I actually always felt sorry for him sometimes since it seems he never had a "normal" life - a pop star since the age of 9. But he also seemed to have some real mental problems as well.

Sad...
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Posted on 2009-06-26 19:14:34
LORDHUMONGOUS
Bac wrote:
Hmmm... surprised I'm the first person to write about this here. I guess some of the world was asleep when he died.

It's an odd feeling to hear this. I haven't been a big fan of him ever except when I was a little kid. But he has been a pop-culture icon for decades now and I can appreciate some of his early work.

I think I was 6 or 7 when Thriller came out. The video scared my little brother half-to-death.

Pretty amazing news... I actually always felt sorry for him sometimes since it seems he never had a "normal" life - a pop star since the age of 9. But he also seemed to have some real mental problems as well.

Sad...


The news was a surprise, but irrelevant. Yeah, he was an icon back in the 80's. Of late he's been reduced to tabloid fodder. I guess people got tired of the freak show and tuned him out.
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Posted on 2009-06-27 02:30:47
Bac
LORDHUMONGOUS wrote:
Bac wrote:
Hmmm... surprised I'm the first person to write about this here. I guess some of the world was asleep when he died.

It's an odd feeling to hear this. I haven't been a big fan of him ever except when I was a little kid. But he has been a pop-culture icon for decades now and I can appreciate some of his early work.

I think I was 6 or 7 when Thriller came out. The video scared my little brother half-to-death.

Pretty amazing news... I actually always felt sorry for him sometimes since it seems he never had a "normal" life - a pop star since the age of 9. But he also seemed to have some real mental problems as well.

Sad...


The news was a surprise, but irrelevant. Yeah, he was an icon back in the 80's. Of late he's been reduced to tabloid fodder. I guess people got tired of the freak show and tuned him out.


Yeah, but that's not the case right now. It's basically been round-the-clock Michael Jackson (and some Farah Fawcett) on TV here since he died. I guess it shouldn't have been a big surprise because he was in terrible health.
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Posted on 2009-06-27 17:06:56
LORDHUMONGOUS
Bac wrote:
LORDHUMONGOUS wrote:
Bac wrote:
Hmmm... surprised I'm the first person to write about this here. I guess some of the world was asleep when he died.

It's an odd feeling to hear this. I haven't been a big fan of him ever except when I was a little kid. But he has been a pop-culture icon for decades now and I can appreciate some of his early work.

I think I was 6 or 7 when Thriller came out. The video scared my little brother half-to-death.

Pretty amazing news... I actually always felt sorry for him sometimes since it seems he never had a "normal" life - a pop star since the age of 9. But he also seemed to have some real mental problems as well.

Sad...


The news was a surprise, but irrelevant. Yeah, he was an icon back in the 80's. Of late he's been reduced to tabloid fodder. I guess people got tired of the freak show and tuned him out.


Yeah, but that's not the case right now. It's basically been round-the-clock Michael Jackson (and some Farah Fawcett) on TV here since he died. I guess it shouldn't have been a big surprise because he was in terrible health.


I'm already sick of the round the clock MJ coverage. You know it's funny, all these people (including celebrities) are creating all this fuss about him now. Guess they're trying to cash in now. Where were they before? I guess it's ok now since he's not being accused of molestation. There's no backlash now that he's dead.

And the Farah Fawcett thing? What's with that? Who was she? Other than a pretty face back in the 70's-80's. My last memory of her will be her supposed drug induced episodes forever caught on film. We must really love our celebrities.
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Posted on 2009-07-01 12:49:40
Kosinus
that summer had its charm
Mass media hypocrisy all over the place. Sick.
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Posted on 2009-07-10 14:57:36
Mishto
it makes for a good sideshow to distract you from the financial woes.
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Posted on 2009-07-10 20:07:22
Small-Talker
LORDHUMONGOUS wrote:
LORDHUMONGOUS wrote:
The news was a surprise, but irrelevant. Yeah, he was an icon back in the 80's. Of late he's been reduced to tabloid fodder. I guess people got tired of the freak show and tuned him out.


I'm already sick of the round the clock MJ coverage. You know it's funny, all these people (including celebrities) are creating all this fuss about him now. Guess they're trying to cash in now. Where were they before? I guess it's ok now since he's not being accused of molestation. There's no backlash now that he's dead.

And the Farah Fawcett thing? What's with that? Who was she? Other than a pretty face back in the 70's-80's. My last memory of her will be her supposed drug induced episodes forever caught on film. We must really love our celebrities.

Damn. You need to chill out. The media coverage is hardly Michael Jackson's/Farah Fawcett's fault, so why swipe at them specifically? It's our fault for being so obsessed with celebrities and consuming anything that mentions their name. And in the middle of all this are families who've lost their father/son/brother and wife/mother. It's time for you to stop being so bloody heartless.
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Posted on 2009-07-11 16:42:33
LORDHUMONGOUS
Small-Talker wrote:
LORDHUMONGOUS wrote:
LORDHUMONGOUS wrote:
The news was a surprise, but irrelevant. Yeah, he was an icon back in the 80's. Of late he's been reduced to tabloid fodder. I guess people got tired of the freak show and tuned him out.


I'm already sick of the round the clock MJ coverage. You know it's funny, all these people (including celebrities) are creating all this fuss about him now. Guess they're trying to cash in now. Where were they before? I guess it's ok now since he's not being accused of molestation. There's no backlash now that he's dead.

And the Farah Fawcett thing? What's with that? Who was she? Other than a pretty face back in the 70's-80's. My last memory of her will be her supposed drug induced episodes forever caught on film. We must really love our celebrities.

Damn. You need to chill out. The media coverage is hardly Michael Jackson's/Farah Fawcett's fault, so why swipe at them specifically? It's our fault for being so obsessed with celebrities and consuming anything that mentions their name. And in the middle of all this are families who've lost their father/son/brother and wife/mother. It's time for you to stop being so bloody heartless.


My rant was more aimed at the media coverage. How are these two deaths any different from the deaths that occur everyday? Why, because of Thriller? And you want to talk about families. Wasn't MJ estranged from his family? Now they wanna bury the hatchet when he's gone. And the MJ memorial/concert, was it a tribute or showcase? I don't know. I just found the whole thing a sad spectacle. Or maybe I'm ranting because of my own insecurities.
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Posted on 2009-07-11 20:51:13
Quetzal
i hope that he'll not come back as in the thriller clip... too much soap for me, bamby was certainly a nice guy, comeing from outerspace, or the hell of his child years.
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it seems that was surely completely insane inside, with many identity problem, certainly not too easy around the 80 to be black, when everybody would like you to be white.
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show must go on...
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Posted on 2009-07-28 04:29:21
FeDe.ar
What it really gets me it's that a lot of people say now that they're Michael Jackson's fans or that he was a great artist or things like that all because he is dead. C'mon! the world didn't know who Michael Jackson was until a month ago! Nobody would have said that they liked Michael Jackson music if he wouldn't be dead.
I mean, I know he was an icon, but there are a lot of people who say that they admire and I bet my bottom dollar that if he was alive and you ask those persons for the king of Pop, they wouldn't give a damn for him
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Posted on 2009-07-30 12:39:47
Quetzal
--> fédé, michael jackson was a great disc seller when he was alive, and the informatin aroubd his death help newspaper to sell their information about it, that why there's so much noise around it

we're in "summer" and there's may be nothing else really more "informationnal" than to make a lot of noise around it. it death gonna help many newspaper ant TV-shows to survive during the long silence of hte flat plains of summer... where nothing important ever happened.

mickael jackons is really a fair guy, dying a best moment. it's too kind of him...

and at last, it gonna sell more disc in two month this summer and at the next christmas than ever.. prodigious guy !!
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Posted on 2009-08-16 18:19:15
Vrak
He was a great entertainer, but he was a troubled soul. May he rest in peace.
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Posted on 2009-08-17 23:14:36
Small-Talker
Quetzal wrote:
--> fédé, michael jackson was a great disc seller when he was alive, and the informatin aroubd his death help newspaper to sell their information about it, that why there's so much noise around it

we're in "summer" and there's may be nothing else really more "informationnal" than to make a lot of noise around it. it death gonna help many newspaper ant TV-shows to survive during the long silence of hte flat plains of summer... where nothing important ever happened.

mickael jackons is really a fair guy, dying a best moment. it's too kind of him...

and at last, it gonna sell more disc in two month this summer and at the next christmas than ever.. prodigious guy !!
There's talk of him being confirmed (by the end of the year) as the highest earning deceased entertainer of all time. One of his records (Number 1's) has sold 3+ million in the US alone since he died. And take into account that all his records are in practically every chart the world over - so God only knows how many records that is. There's public demand for it - that explains all the media coverage.

I don't know why people are so hostile about the coverage. In a few months time, you'll never hear from him again. And you've gotta admit - it's been nice hearing Smooth Criminal on the radio, as opposed to Akon or whoever.
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Posted on 2009-08-19 14:52:13
Mishto
In a few months time, you'll never hear from him again



-I would've thought this too until 2Pac died.




or did he!
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Posted on 2009-10-04 04:33:07
FeDe.ar
We'll all forget him. You'll see.
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Posted on 2009-10-09 00:48:28
del25
obviously the night he died it'd have been a huge shock to all his fans but months after it's boring having to hear new stories every week etc ....

i wouldn't say i were a huge fan but i always liked his music,i wrote & recorded my tribute song to him on youtube .... if any of you here are interested in hearing it type in the shock of the news

it's abit like a lenon song
 
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