Micheal Jackson’s Dead, So What?
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I never liked the man or his music.
I realise I’m on very shaky ground here, saying you don’t like ‘Wacko Jacko’ is akin to making an anti Islamic remark, I might have to go into hiding if the word gets out.
I’ve been listening to pop music nearly all my 62 years, starting out with rock’n'roll in the ’50s, right through to Dance and House music; I like classical music, jazz and prog rock as well. But I’ve never liked The Jackson 5 or Micheal Jackson’s solo work; I liked the backing on ‘Thriller’, as well as Vincent Price’s contribution, and the backing on ‘Billie Jean’ and that’s it. I think that Micheal Jackson is vastly overrated, like ‘The emporor’s new clothes,’ if you can’t see them you’re a fool. Well this is one glad fool, I’ve never sullied my musical integrity by owning a Micheal Jackson record. Come to that I wouldn’t want anything by Elton John, Celine Dion, or Madonna in my collection.
Mr Jackson was due to perform for 50 ‘farewell’ concerts in London next month, but it’s my humble opinion that if those concerts (now cancelled I assume unless a Jacko tribute outfit steps into the breach) would have gone well, then Mr Jackson might have seen it as an opportunity to make a comeback; thankfully we’ll never know. How does that expression go? ‘You can fool all of the people some of the time, some of the people (Micheal Jackson fans) all of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.’
I would like to sum up my appraisal of Micheal Jackson by saying that he was the ‘king’ of a really bad taste in music, and the master of ugly self indulgence in his personal tastes. There’s another famous expression (two actually), ‘Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad,’ and ‘All power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.’ Maybe I’m a megalomaniac on an ego trip, and if it had been an anti Islamic statement I probably wouldn’t have made it for fear of getting my head chopped off by Islamofascists.
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I don’t care that he’s dead either, but learn to spell “Michael”.
Well said. I agree, though I have to shamefully admit that when I was in 7th grade I owned a copy of the 45; I’ll Be There. You gotta forgive me that, though, as I hadn’t been steeped in enough real music to have good taste then. He and I being within a few months of the same age, I thought it was cool back then, that someone my age was recorded and playing on the radio.
Could never understand the hype around him with the Quincy Jones music, arrangements and production though. Jacko didn\’t write the music, or play the music, or produce the music that he sang and twitched to. If anyone deserved recognition for groundbreaking music that Jackson sang to, it was Quincy, not Jacko.
Oh my goodness! Such freedom to come out of the closet as a non-MichaelJackson fan. Was thinking I was the only one.