by beauzeau » Sat Jun 27, 2009 8:40 pm
I grew up listening to his music, I watched the show as a kid, etc, etc, etc. Michael Jackson was indeed talented. It wasn't until 93 or so, when I saw The Jacksons, an American Dream that I realized that his talent was FORCED upon him. Here was a kid who just wanted to go outside and play, but his father drove him like a sled dog to be great. It's obvious that HE has no talent of his own to share with others. I say we get a van full together, go out to Vegas, kidnap him, teach him to tapdance, and put him on display 5 nights a week. Yeah Joe, we know you just wanna go take a nap, but we're really in need of some good geriatric entertainment.
Since I saw that TV special, most of MJs songs always ring bittersweet to me. The kid grew up with a very skewed sense of reality, and if he did turn into a molestor, then it's something that Joe should blame on himself, if he's not too busy patting himself on the back for "creating a musical genius".
Personally, I don't think MJ molested anyone. I think he was probably just a lonely guy who needed to have a family of his own. No one would have thought it odd for him to sleep with his own kids (that's SLEEP, not molest). I still get the boot from my own daughter sometimes in the middle of the night. Of course, the whole point is to scootch with mom and dad, but dad quickly finds another bed.
But that's your OWN kids, and that's where the line between normal and weird occurs. And the people who let their kids stay at Neverland ranch AFTER MJ had already been accused in the past, should be ashamed of themselves! To me, this REEKS of "hey, let's let our kid stay with him, and maybe MJ will molest him and then we can sue. Ah the hell with it, we'll sue either way". I'd have been AFRAID to stay at MJs house when I was a kid! "What the hell is that? AGGGHHHH!"
Honestly, I was saddened to hear he had died. And not just because we won't be able to make Michael Jackson jokes anymore. He WAS an icon, plain and simple. And when an icon dies, it tends to make people reflect on their own lives in sync with that of the icon.
I took out a paragraph here where I talked about some celebs that were blogging about their grief, because I didn't want to offend any of the many celebs who truly are mourning. Suffice it to say, if you had nothing nice to say about the man while he was alive, then you shouldn't be shouting nice things about him from a pedestal now that he's dead. Enough said.
While it's true that Michael Jackson will get no peace from the press, even in death, Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett's family have been blessed with some relatively quiet time to mourn her death.
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beauzeau on Sun Jun 28, 2009 2:22 am, edited 1 time in total.
"I think the problem might have been, that there was a stonehenge monument on stage in danger of being crushed, by a dwarf". "I really think you're making a big thing out of this". "Making a big thing out of it would have been a good idea".
