I said it would take something major to get me back to posting again, and this one shocked me to the core.
My childhood icon, my first ever superstar, Michael Jackson, died after a cardiac arrest at the age of 50. I'm still crying as I type this. I'm really upset about this! :(
I'm opening up the comments again, if you want to share your thoughts.
Rest in peace, Michael!
Update (cause how can I have a Michael Jackson post without Michael Jackson's music?)
9 comments:
Thriller was my first ever album I've ever bought with my own money. It was my 14th birthday present. Controversy or not, Michael Jackson will be missed and remembered.
*consoling hug*
For you, ABW.
Thanks, Huey.
I am saddened. My 1st concert was The Jackson Five. No one has been able to touch is musical abilities in todays' world. No matter what other problems he may have had, he will be missed. His children are young may they find peace; his family strength; his fans constructive waysto grieve and the media a way to respect privacy, and report with a minute amount of sensitivity.
remember the whiz?
I'm still somewhat in shock.
I am crying all the time.
Does anyone else think MJ is the most American Black celebrity? The America he grew up in protected white existence (and, it must be said, saw and censored the psychic paradox of a certain black man). MJ understood this intuitively, completely. He was a Black man, but as he went through and beyond puberty, he failed to gain the friendship of grown up white men. He changed his voice and face to get past the radar, in vain. Multiple white women befriended and protected him.
He dated/mated with exclusively white women and tried to have white children to approximate a normal existence or perhaps to gain early, direct access to the kind of child who would grow up to refuse "him" the normalcy that is almost denied even Nicole Ritchie.
Tiger Woods is the new solution and is celebrated because he openly denies being black, knowing or being related to black women any more than a South Carolina country-clubber does or is , but Michael was just too musical, so un-Anglo-Saxon. He wanted to be able to dance like a Mandingo magician and then retire and socialize with a socially accepted woman.
Lola, that's a very interesting theory about Michael's acceptance and popularity.
I however wonder about the "rejection" that came later because, it seemed to me, the whiter appearing he got, the more mainstream media sought to vilify him.
Yes, the face is only a symptom.
MJ tried to offer the media the white face that apparently leads to acceptance in their book, but if you are the type of white American who excludes fully Black people from your cuddly feelings -- while incarnating full citizenship and its benefits--you can't see that MJ was looking to be allowed access to them and ended up looking like an alien wreck. Have you seen what Lil' Kim looks like lately? She's inwardly black too, but clearly needs a hug.
Interesting blog.
Thriller was the first album I bought (Purple Rain my second).
R.I.P. Michael
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