Jun.25.2009 at 10:25 pm | joshua
nobody was better
listen. i am not a doofus, there are plenty of shady things that surrounded michael jackson, but i know this much… i have zero idea, none whatsoever, of what it was like to be him. to grow up in the environment he did, to never know life not in the spotlight… there was no blueprint on how to live with as much fame and scrutiny as he did. all that said, i am a firm believer in love and forgiveness, and regardless of what he’s done i love what he done for music. someone on twitter said earlier (sorry, i honestly can’t remember who) that michael jackson was the first person to introduce him to art in all it’s forms, and i’d say that’s probably pretty true for a lot of us, including myself.
lets be realistic here. his importance on popular music cannot ever be understated. he was the best. period. there will never be another musician as famous as he was, or as influential as he was. i have so many memories wrapped up in his music, i could write a book. and i know i’m not the only one. it’s truly a sad day.
here is a video of one of my favorite all-time michael jackson songs…
nicely written!!! cheers… to the king of pop!
thanks, and i'm raising my can of cherry coke zero now ;-)
well said. regardless of the baggage, there was seriously no one like him… an amazing talent… a phenomenon. no one can take that away.
amen to that…
i was surprised by how instantly emotional i got when the news was finally… actually… factually official. i cried. and i'm gonna lie… i'll probably cry again. wait – yep.
i was surprised by how instantly emotional i got when the news was finally… actually… factually official. i cried. and i'm not gonna lie… i'll probably cry again. wait – yep.
yeah as i'm sitting here listening to the giant playlist i made on grooveshark, it's amazing the wave of emotions i'm going through. both because of just how good the music is, how great he was, and all the memories that come with these songs.
As this has all happened at the beginning of our day here, amongst a really busy day at that, I don't think I've been able to really let it sink in. Especially when our news was concentrating on the Goldblum hoax thing since it was in the neighbouring country.
I've often wondered what it would be like to be someone like that, and I can't fathom it. Phenomenon really seems to undersell what he was to the world, and I even decided to look up that word…I like these…
" an exceptional, unusual, or abnormal person, thing, or occurrence "
" an object or aspect known through the senses rather than by thought or intuition "
And I'll be honest, I have mourned for Michael for years. It's a very long time since his creativity was great, and it coincided with his life getting even more public and bizarre. I think when I woke up this morning and heard he'd gone, it was more relief, though I ache for his eternity as I fear he never found what we know he was looking for.
well said david, and for his sake i hope you are wrong.
yeah, me too. I really do.
Hey, have you seen this news article?
New details about Michael Jackson’s Death Emerge
I was wondering if you were going to blog about this…
link didn't work.