Kimi, You are so cynical

 

Kimiko, you and I seldom see eye to eye but on this subject I must agree with you. He will be forgotten in a year or two except for his foolish admirers.

 

please do :excited:

 

I agree that he cannot be compared to Mozart but I disagree that he will be forgotten by the main stream in 2 years.

MJ is the main stream personified. Have we forgotten the Beetles? or Johnny Cash or Frank Sinatra?

 

I just saw him in a Chippie with Elvis

 

Apparantly they don't know whether to blame it on the sunshine, the moonlight or just to blame it on the boogie

 

Reports of Michael Jackson having a heartattack are incorrect. He's been found in the children's ward having a stroke

 

Michael Jackson has been asked to be buried at sea - preferrably tied to 2 bouys

 

As Michael Jackson is 99% plastic he will not be cremated, he will be melted into lego blocks so that kids can play with him

 

Michael Jackson Doctor -- MIAPosted Jun 26th 2009 10:00AM by TMZ Staff
*not_secure_link*www.blogcdn.com/www.tmz.com/media/2009/06/0625_michael_jackson_ex3.jpgWe've learned law enforcement is looking for a doctor who lived at Michael Jackson's home -- and the doctor is nowhere to be found.

Law enforcement sources tell us a BMW belonging to the doctor was towed from Jackson's home last night.

Cops are looking to interview the doc.

A law enforcement source says the doctor gave Jackson an injection before he died.

Jackson reportedly may have OD'd on Demerol. As we first reported, family members were concerned that Jackson was taking too

*not_secure_link*www.tmz.com/2009/06/26/michael-jackson-doctor-morphene-demerol-lapd-overdose/

 

Since none of the artists you mentioned are played on mainstream radio or much of any radio for that matter, I would say they are pretty much forgotten by most of the music listening world and since few songs who these performers recorded were written by them, they are little more than talking heads.

 

LOL keep it up Bigbird, I love MJ jokes...though many ring of truth.

 

Gary Glitter to adopt Michael Jackson's kids. Says he can fill the hole left by their father.

 

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Original paintings by Michael Jackson (top) and Macaulay Culkin (bottom). I WOULD NOT JOKE ABOUT THIS.

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See here.... *not_secure_link*slog.thestranger.c...odbye-brain-sorry-i-accidentally-exploded-you

 

that's your point of view. Last time I checked you weren't the spokesman for ''most of the music listening world''


and about the OD on Demerol and the missing doc? not good. not good at all.

 

Michael Jackson is the only reason I listen to what little music I do, and the first artist I ever owned anything by.... and still the artist whose music I listen to most. Second place goes to Metallica, third is tied between Janet Jackson and Nirvana. Anyway, I will miss him. *not_secure_link*www.uglysob.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

 

Michael Jackson was born a poor black boy, but he died a rich white woman.

 

I know he had a multitude of fans and many will mourn him, but I never particularly liked him. In my opinion, he had two decent albums, Off The Wall and Thriller; the rest were more hype than substance and the quality got noticeably worse over the past 20 years. He was also a creep.

On the other hand, I am sorry he died so young.

 

Well, he wasn't Mozart but, critically, he was one of the most profound and influential artists of the 20th century. He basically molded the "pop" genre into what it is today. I was listening to Morning Edition on the way home from work and I heard the Pulitzer Prize winning critic Margo Jefferson saying that MJ was ultimately a master of syncretism. She was exactly right. Even from his early days with the Jackson 5, MJ's music could not be discretely placed into a single category. It contained traces of various styles, Afro-pop, Soul, R&B, Funk, Rock, Latin, Rap & Hip-hop--and yet he took all those styles and made the combination distinctly his own.

Al Sharpton said:
“Michael Jackson made culture accept a person of color, way before Tiger Woods, way before Oprah Winfrey, way before Barack Obama. Michael did with music what they later did in sports and in politics, and in television. And no controversy will erase the historic impact,"

This is so true. All kinds of people of every race knew of and adored Michael Jackson. He was the first black artist to be universally accepted by whites in the United States. Like a prince of peace, he sang and performed with pure innocence with his tender, angelic voice and boyish energy--diffusing, culturally, the racial tension and violence that epitomized the decades before his time. And so he grew up to be a troubled hermit who was ugly, despised, and alone--but I refuse to remember him that way. To me, this would always be the real Michael Jackson.

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