Remembering Michael Jackson
So, you know by now that Michael Jackson died today after cardiac arrest (just a few hours after the death of Farrah Fawcett).
His adult life was marred by lurid molestation charges, endless displays of bizarre behavior with his three children, plastic surgery horrors, and financial mayhem.
But he was a musical genius in his early days before he succumbed to Hollyweird and that’s what I’ll choose to remember. So sad — the corruption of innocence, the talent squandered, the celebrity gone wild. So sad:
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He had so much talent; so much promise. Something happened along the way, and we will never get to know what it was probably. RIP, Michael Jackson, and may God bless your children with some normalcy that you never had.
What a horrible day of loss for all! 2 great performers gone. Best to all of their families!
May God rest his soul.
One of the biggest mysteries in the world is what caused Michael Jackson to become such a bizzare individual. I feel sorry for the guy, he was such an extaordinary talent.
(PS: Whatever Michael succumbed to was beyond Hollyweird; it was so weird that you need another word for it.)
RIP, Mike
That video brings back memories of when I was young. I liked the Jackson 5 and watched the cartoon every Saturday if I could barring chores and working in the garden.
So to will I remember him as Michelle does from his early innocent days.
RIP.
I hope Farrah Fawcett is a REAL Angel now.
I hope Michael Jackson finds the peace he never had in his later years
Yeah, it’s particularly sad for me because those two are part of a mosaic of faces and impressions that are so much a part of my childhood.
My brother and I (my brother was better) learned how to dance to the Jackson 5 (“Dancing, Dancing, Dancinnng! He’s a dancing machiiiine!”), and then later to Michael Jackson tunes in particular (during the “Off the Wall” heyday). What a sad, tragic figure.
And how can forget Farrah Fawcett, the premier blonde back in the day (with that “feathered” hair)!
It will be truly the end of my childhood era when Clint Eastwood goes (to me, he figures as “Dirty Harry”, not from his TV time in the early 60s).
This is just a powerful and timely reminder of our mortality and the coming day to face the Lord.
May Peace Be With You – ILMC
I’ll be the de-fawning icebreaker to pray that all the forgotten and swept under the carpet children and other minors “touched” by this “man” don’t remember or somehow get over their candified exploitation. Genius doesn’t equate goodness. Hitler was one too. I’ll pass on this awesome candyman of the age.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
Michael and Farrah. Their journeys on earth are over.
May they rest well with the great spirit through eternity……….
I guess this is where I cross over the other way, when you give children alcohol and molest them AMF.
Here is a sad but salient illustration of the myth that wealth and fame bring long life and happiness. Sometimes quite the opposite.
Michelle,
It is very simple to determine what happened to Mr. Jackson. Abuse, either mental or physical, takes time to manifest itself. Often times, at the peak of brilliance comes the downfall.
I will remember Michael for his music which touched us all, and I will also remember Michael for teaching me by opposite example to treat my children (when I have them) with the utmost respect and decency.
May Michael take 5 in peace.
The Jackson Five were a bright spot in my early teen years, so I’ve long mourned the lost innocence and purity of the young Michael Jackson.
But tonight my tears are reserved for the youth who are still dying in the streets of Iran. The reports are that throngs are gathering outside the medical center in CA where Jackson died; do they know or care about those who are literally dying to gain the freedoms they regard so carelessly?
Maybe I’m just feeling a bit cynical tonight, but that’s how I feel.
You beat me to it James. I will pray for the little ones that this sicko hurt. I will also pray that Jackson finds the fate he deserves. I know that we should all be forgiving, but I am a flawed man and what he did I can never forgive.
Like AllahPundit says over at HotAir, the autopsy on Michael Jackson will be “interesting”, to say the least.
My collie says:
Exactly.
Peter Pan personified,…
His troubled soul, maybe, is finally at rest. No doubt, he’ll have a lot of Karma to repay in the afterlife. I don’t know whether to be happy, or sad for his children.
I put the same song on my facebook page. RiP.
Rev Al Sharpton on TV making his death a race thing! UNBELIEVABLE! Is there n end to these useful idiot?
No you’re sick because you have no proof of your response. He was aquitted no matter what you think!
He was a monster.
Maybe he would not have been, had his parents raised him in a more normal upbringing.
God rest his soul and look over all the “chidren” he molested.
Death does not change who a person was in life. He does not deserve this endless praise. He sang songs! Big deal!He did not die on the battlefield, he did not serve his country. I will not miss him. I hope his victims will find peace knowing this monster is gone and can not hurt another child. Sorry to be a wet blanket on the lovefest. I wish Shepard Smith and FOX news would move on to real news.
I loved the Jackson 5 as a kid. I choose to remember those times.
Farrah was THE poster girl. And I had her posters in my room. And she turned into a pretty damn fine actress IMHO.
May they both RIP.
I’m with the “badguys.”
I am not sorry to see him gone. Even if you like his music you don’t need him around to enjoy it!
Children the world over are safe from one less a$$hat. Good riddance!
Michael Jackson will always evoke this dichotomy between respect for the entertainer and disgust with the man. His was a talent that was wasted over the last years of his life, and no matter what your opinion of the man, his music changed the pop world forever. That doesn’t make him a great person, but it does make his death deserve a few moments of reflection.
Appears to be a few hanging judges in the crowd – you’re too late, he’s dead. Yeah, Jackson was strange, but he was never convicted of a sex crime. He was inviting lawsuits from get-rich quick types by opening his doors for various charities. Jackson also supported the troops.
I wouldn’t put anyone in that category – there’s good reason to detest the man. There is something sad in a general sense, though, when you can see the promising trajectory a life might take and how depravity and one’s own failings destroy it.
I don’t think someone is wrong either way for their feelings. While Michael was never found guilty, I wish he’d have been able to tackle his demons.
His Father was certainly not a saint, however Michael should have overcome the abuse.
I agree, he was a victim of the culture that celebrities accept in Hollywood.
MJ and I are a week apart in age, so I remember the child star very well. Funny enough, Donny Osmond is about the same age – another big child star.
I hope he rests well.
Farrah’s death was a loss. So Was Ed McMahon’s. Michael Jackson? Sorry, I’m having fishsticks for dinner and that will have a bigger effect on me than his life ever did or death ever will.
He may have been very talented but he was no “genius”. All of his dance moves were first performed by Bob Fosse and others. Although I don’t revel in his death, forgive me if I don’t feel any grief. I always found him offensive and creepy as a person and it is fitting that he died from drug abuse. Speaks volumes about our priorities that his death is the lead on all news stations.
My feelings over Farrah Fawcett’s death are another matter. She died a tragic early death in her struggle with cancer. She may not have been a genius but she was a source of joy.
His whole family is a tragic mess. Death comes to each and every one of us.
Where will it find you?
In Christ’s righteousness ? Or in your own.
MMmmmm….fishsticks. There’s another childhood memory. Now I’m hungry.
Michael Jackson, R.I.P.
So, how much did this geekazoid contribute to the decline we are agonizing in now?
It never came up, but I would have said the same when it was alive.
He was right up there with all the others, biting the heads off live chickens for your amusement.
It is a shame to feel no loss for a person, he was lost many years past, and contributed to countless wasted lives that could have otherwise been counted to a positive future.
Ed McMahon… they always say bad things in three’s. As much as he was second banana, ain’t no Tonight Show franchise w/o him.
That was a beautiful video.
Thank you, Michelle.
As a young girl growing up in the 70s, I absolutely idolized Farrah Fawcett. In my eyes she was perfect — perfect hair, perfect looks, perfect everything. She was a true American icon. So sad she passed away at only 62.
Jackson was a tremendously talented musician, however, his antics overshadowed his talent in his later years. Really too bad. I’m just wondering what really precipitated his early death.
When I was a really little kid, I was Michael Jackson’s biggest fan. When people would ask me what I wanted to do when I grew up, at least until second grade, I would always include “…and I’m going to marry Michael Jackson.” (I honestly believed this as a kid, and I credit my parents with letting me believe it for a few years.) I had countless MJ buttons, tons of albums, innumerable posters and vivid memories of his concerts (my first concert was an MJ concert). I even have a piece of a coat he once wore (not kidding!). The MJ I loved disappeared years ago, but I feel particularly sad that the world has lost an immense talent. Even though I’ve long since moved on to other music and musicians, there remains a nostalgia for the incredible and groundbreaking performer that he once was that remains.
This nails it on the head. I feel shell shocked.
RIP MJ.
Those who molest children, and worship a false moon god should be very worried after they die.
Yeah sure, he was never convicted blah blah blah. Neither was OJ. It took two trials to convict Phil Spector too! And how many times did John Gotti escape conviction before they got him? And Genaro Angiullo was a very old man before his butt was put in prison (after at least 50+ murders).
Wacko was a certified creep. His dad was an abusive task master but that is a common complaint among adults who don’t end up so messed up. We all make decisions in life and he, like Elvis, chose to surround himself with enablers who told him only what he wanted to hear and made sure he had all the drugs he wanted. No excuses. This guy was a victim mostly of his weak character, not of “society” or “the system”.
The tragedy of Michael Jackson’s life is a perfect illustration of why I don’t laugh at people who used to be famous.
You’ve heard the snickers about people who “had the world at their feet” at one time in their lives who have fallen to doing straight-to-video movies and reality shows. Most of the snickerers are people who — like most of us at one time — wanted to be internationally famous for doing something, but were never able to turn the trick.
The problem is that fame is a Faustian deal (as Michelle must understand to some extent); in exchange for the money and rewards you receive in exchange for your talents, you lose the privacy that you previously took for granted. You don’t belong only to yourself anymore. You are a part of other people’s lives, whether you want to be or not, and some deranged individuals demand unwarranted personal attention.
Then, there is the issue of what fame does to you as an individual. Lord Acton wrote “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Being able to indulge all of our desires is a dream few of us get to realize, so we tend to romanticize the idea. We should look at what happened to those who did, and how they came out. Jackson, who thought he was cheated out of his childhood by his father’s drive to make stars of him and his siblings, spent hundreds of millions of hard-earned dollars trying to emulate Peter Pan, acting like a prepubescent child and hanging out with young children constantly. He either didn’t have anyone around him courageous enough to recommend therapy, or he just dismissed the notion. In the end, a guy who wanted to be forever young didn’t even make it to the age of 51.
Jackson also spent a lot of time altering his appearance so that the dark brown skin he was born with became sickly pale and his surgically-altered broad nose became as slim as a Bic pen. God only knows what that was about.
You’ll hear a lot of comparisons to Elvis Presley in the coming days. Like Elvis, Jacko was once alone atop the music world. Elvis became a reclusive, bloated parody of himself before a sad, tragic death accelerated by prescription drug abuse; Jackson became a skeletal, bizarre parody of his former self. When you see what happened to people like Jacko and Elvis, it should give you a fresh perspective on the advantages of a relatively quiet and anonymous life.
Every so often, I run into people who at one time attained a measure of fame, but are no longer recognized by strangers on a regular basis. I resist the knee-jerk reaction that they are eating their hearts out. Rather than pity them because they aren’t living high and fast, I congratulate them for their accomplishments and/or work — of which I would have been happy to claim a sliver.
With respect Michelle:
You write “Mark Sanford: Bastard.”
OK. I get it.
But, if I understand correctly, you are the mother of a boy also.
I would think this matter would demand some sort of equivalent “response.”
To abuse a Stevie Ray Vaughn song title:
“
The SkyNAMBLA is crying”…Tinseltown is not DC…but just as (moreso in other ways) influential.
The famous moonwalk that so many gush about him inventing was performed onscreen by Jimmy Cagney in, IIRC, Yankee Doodle Dandy, a biopic of George M. Cohan that was made in the 1940’s. Bet a lot of people don’t recall that Cagney was a hoofer – and a very talented one – before he became famous as a movie gangster.
I’ll honestly miss Ed McMahon more than I’ll miss Michael Jackson. I have fonder memorers of Mr. McMahon’s work and the tons of careers that his talent show started. Not so much with Michael Jackson.
The “only” positive memory is playing the Thriller record in my fifth grade class when I was ten years old. My peers and I went wild. Hey, zombies were cool in the ’80’s back then.
The whole sordid mess his life became is more unseemly, especially the molestation rumours. One of my former 8th grade students was molested and the very thought that people are mourning this guy or people are weeping in the streets over him makes me angry but also sad for how easily many people look up to celebrities these days.
For all the coverage that this guy’s death is getting, I wish the news/entertainment channels would devote the time to each and every military member we’ve lost in Iraq and Afghanistan. That’s not as newsworthy I’m afraid. It’s celebutainment like the morbid curiousity and wakefest surrounding Jackson today that grabs people.
Is it maybe a bit bizarre that while people are dying on the streets in Tehran, Korea is threatening nuclear holocost, and congress is about to make Gore Mania law…all anyone is talking about is two pop idols and pictures of Governor Happypants’ mistress?
Just saying.
I’d politely let this pass by except that I just tuned in my major, local, talk-radio outlet and they have bumped their politically-oriented, national talkshow for a live Michael Jackson call-in special. This is a radio station that has, for years, played hardly any music. If it were a pop music station, I would not regard it as inappropriate.
But this is a station concerned mostly with politics and economics. They have decided that this is a time for national mourning. I, personally, do not have any special grief for this man’s unfortunate passing, although obviously many feel differently.
I just heard a very polite caller gently deliver an implied rebuke to the station, saying that she would hope that we not forget our men and women in military service who frequently lose their young lives, often several at the time, and are hardly noticed by the public at large. She wisely refused the bait of the host who tried to coax her into saying something explicitly critical of their Jackson coverage. I agree fervently with what she said.
A talented, but troubled life, has ended a little short. It just doesn’t rank very high on my list of concerns. If we are to be subjected to a death-of-Diana level of coverage for the next ten days while the tawdry media tries to make a buck dumbing down American culture, I am going to get real annoyed.
Thank you. Agreed. Comments like this is why we keep you around (I’m kidding). Thanks for cutting through the overhyped cheesefest this guy’s death has created.
Wet blankets unit!
self-edit:
Ummm, I meant memories.
Yikees, I think I created a new word. Yay me!!!
It will be a great diversion for the obama complicit MSM to avoid saying anything about the Cap and Trade vote to be held shortly.
Wayfaring Stranger wrote:
I am 99.44% positive that’s wrong. Here’s a clip from Yankee Doodle Dandy on YouTube. At 2:04, you can see Cagney doing a toe stand like Jacko’s. But the moonwalk? Get real.
I don’t believe he ever claimed he “invented” the moonwalk, though.
Sad that he’s gone, he had a very sad childhood which manifested itself into the weird human being he became. Like Michelle, will remember him for the Jackson 5 years. But please, Fox news has had a continuous news cycle on him from 5 pm. Give me a break.
I never thought I’d defend this guy, but need to point out as someone did earlier, no one ever proved him guilty of child molestation…and the people who accused him were after boatloads of his money.
Having said that, would I let him near my grandchildren? Lock and load baby. But condemning him seems unreasonable and rather pointless now.
I am not one to jump on fresh bones, however, praise should be held to a minimum when there is so many negatives in someones life. As far as Sharpton and the rest of the roll out the black separatists. Anything they want to credit Jackson for was accomplished many years before him by the likes of Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Little Richard and Elvis, to name a few.
Bingo! What I did not reveal in my comments above is that my annoyance was heightened, because I was trying to tune in Mark Levin for some commentary on Cap and Trade. Mark is not really one of my favorites, but I wanted to hear ~any~ discussion of this matter.
This truly is a weighty moment for America. But not because of Michael Jackson…because of the possibility of getting another body blow to the economy, in the form of Cap and Trade, that will perhaps be enough to push us over into a genunine, 30s-style depression.
(I’ve long despised the Left for its contempt for America. Now, I myself, am finding it harder and harder to feel like I belong to a great and special country. If people are more concerned with Michael Jackson than with the multiple crises that our country is facing, then we are going to end up with about what we deserve.)
The people most relieved at the one-two punch of Jacko’s and Farrah’s deaths within hours of each other:
1. Mark Sanford.
2. Nancy Pelosi.
Why Pelosi? Cap & Trade is ready to be rammed down our collective throat (to be charitable) in hours.
Whoa, Ignatius! Great minds think alike.
Ignatius Reilly wrote:
In a few hours, Mark Levin’s show today can be downloaded in its entirety at http://www.marklevinshow.com/audio.
I seem to remember a movie clip from the 1930s of a black dancer doing the same exact “moonwalk” as Jackson. I seem to recall that he was part of a stage dancing act with his brother and I’m sure his name will come to me tomorrow morning at 2:15am.
Most of Jackson’s moves were first performed by Bob Fosse. I don’t remember Cagney doing the “moonwalk” either and I must have seen “Yankee Doodle Dandy” at least twenty times in my life.
Aha! The Nicholas Brothers.
Ignatius Reilly…
My chimpanzee says:
On June 25th, 2009 at 9:05 pm, BOB said:
Got to this site to see the first moonwalk, (that I know of)http://www.levonhelm.com/media.htm
Scroll down to Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks 1959
Watch a cool music video with Hawkins doing the moonwalk and Levon Helm on drums.
I do remember Cagney doing the moonwalk. What a great dancer. He had his own style.
Michelle, thank you for reminding us of the Jackson family’s love of our Lord Jesus. They share their love with the Osmond family. I’m so happy I’ll be able to share eternity with them.
I lament that I won’t be able to share it with my online namesake, Dagney’s creator. I had a commenter on my web site comment that Ayn Rand was an avowed athiest. As I pointed out, logic and religion are not diametrically opposed.
Exeleratorbmw…or whatever..
Interestingly, loss of Hollyweirdos seem to happen in threes: McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson. hmmmm….
A lesson?
I have not lost the sights on Cap and Tax. The Jackson 5 were a big part of my early childhood. I will always treasure that music.
I am focused on Cap and Tax. I am not only repeatedly hammering my rep, but every rep in my state in addition to those fence sitters.
Basically I’ve told them that I hold them personally responsible for any additional taxes. I will bill them, plus interest, and put a lien on their assets if cap and trade goes through.
I will hammer them daily. Then I will move on to healthcare.
Correction. There IS one move Michael Jackson pioneered, the “crotch grab”. Whadya know! He WAS a genius after all! Of course, he probably stole it from watching old Babe Ruth news reels.
With this Congress will move quickly to pass the Michael Jackson Memorial Cap and Trade Act.
The opening lines of the song in the video above:
Speaking of salvation,
Michael Jackson’s life didn’t show any signs of faith in Jesus Christ.
Despite all of the well wishes here for him to be in “peace” now,
I doubt that he is.
His eternal life is likely more of a living Hell than his Earthly life ever was.
Good point! May the 3 entertainers lost this week find peace and may God watch over their souls. RIP Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson.
Good point! May the 3 entertainers lost this week find peace and may God watch over their souls. RIP Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson.
On June 25th, 2009 at 9:16 pm, USN RET said:
I rebuke that!
But if it comes to a floor vote, we’ve already lost…
the Democratic Socialists won’t let it come to the floor until they know they have the votes to pass it.
You’re not the only one, my friend. The mullahs are greatful for the deaths of our TV legends.
Just wondering, any bets on when the first “Wacko sighting” will occur?
“I swear I just saw Wacko crossing the street with Elvis over at Mitzi’s Bar! I kid you not!”
Wellsy, well said!
If Michael Jackson did indeed molest children, then he is collecting his reward.
He was a massive influence on me in my adolescence. He was a spectacular performer, and my heart is heavy today because a man I admired when I was young is gone. I’ll leave the rest to God Almighty.
Jackson was amazing. His talent was unmatched. His voice was perfect, his dancing unmatched. He had a knack of writing songs that people liked.
He could dance, but he didn’t really have to. You can enjoy the entire Thriller album with the music alone.
Thriller will never be matched. Now if you buy an album it might have one good song. That one album had so many #1’s on it.
As for his personal life. No wrongdoing was ever proven. He was strange, but there is no evidence that he was a predator. The children that accused him of anything were brought to him by his parents willingly and knowingly. Personally, I don’t think he did anything to those kids. . . I think he was just odd.
But anyway, RIP. . . I just wish he was a better example to the world financially. He was one of the first successful (super wealthy) black people in America. I wish he was a better financial example for those that wanted to follow the path he blazed.
I’m with Michelle on this. I’ll let God work out the who-did-what-to-who stuff, and stick with the music.
Both he and Farrah were absolutely 20th century icons, and some of the first to pass away of natural causes.
Waiting for the Pres. to outdo Al Sharpton.
Ever since I heard the news, I have “Billie Jean” running through my head. That’s how I’ll remember Jackson.
A sad day indeed.
Or Ted Kennedy if you know what I mean.
Wasn’t he a recent convert to Islam?
That and the Jesus Juice
that he gave the kids
(hidden in Coke cans, creep)
put him on the fast track to eternal separation from God.
James Cagney????
Puh-leeze.
It was most definitely the Nicholas brothers WAY before Cagney. Some of my family members (my grandmother’s older brother in particular) talk about a dance move like that (along with break dancing!) as early as the late twenties in Harlem and Philly.
He was confused. He needed the high profile Muslims in the Middle East to help him with his finances.
The ‘Jesus Juice’ was champaign. I doubt that was a common occurrence. But America is one of the only countries with a drinking age. Young people have alcohol with dinner all the time and it is no big deal.
I don’t think he was maliciously getting them drunk. I think everything he did was because he wanted them to be happy and enjoy themselves. He was so soft spoken, I can’t see him being malicious.
He was just odd. He never grew up and identified with children more than adults.
The real tragedy is the pre-empting of actual news for who knows how many days. Thank God for dvd’s and non-news channels Geraldo, Greta and a lot of other talking heads are likely weeping….with joy.
I wouldn’t go that far, but I guess it’s a matter of musical taste. I think Elvis and the Beatles had much more talent. Elvis had a much better vocal range and the talent to do rock as well as gospel.
There are many songwriters that have more talent.
For pure enjoyment in listening – I’ll take Queensryche’s “Operation Mindcrime” or anything by Aerosmith between 1973-1980 and 1987-2000.
Was he talented? Yes.
Are there performers more talented? Yes.
Again, it’s probably just a question of musical taste.
Same here. I had just got my 1983 Vet and used to cruise with ‘Billy Jean’ blasting.