but Michael Jackson….thats pretty sad isnt it? It is sad in itself, i mean, anyone dying like that at the age of 50 is pretty harsh. But oh my did that poor man ever have a distorted life. I read on a blog posted by someone who had met him in person that without the media he was actually a normal (ish) person and just put it all on for the cameras, record company etc.
I dunno, i just think what a tragedy…a child whose life was a less than healthy before the fame and obviously so very unhealthy after the fame was never ever going to get away with being un touched by the madness of it all.
I have to hold my hand up and say that I was a fan. His music, i enjoyed it when i was younger, the 80's stuff. It was part of my childhood, my transition to teens and early twenties. So there are plenty of significant memories come flooding back when i hear one of his tracks from that time. Have to say i dont play them myself, usually just catching it on the radio or something.
I remember when the first video of Billy Jean was on MTV, not that we had MTV (wow remember the people in school who had MTV…were they cool or what!) but i remember the hoo hah. My brother and I got tickets to see him in concert years ago, i think it was in about 1987 ish…it was supposedly his only ever concert in the UK…er…yeah….but anyway i didnt go because i had a job. But my brother got me a t-shirt..heck,id totally forgotten that, i used to wear it all the time…
But since those days when he seemed like just a talented musician doing his thing, he has just got more and more crazy, car crash, weirdville hasnt he? and being honest that just turns me off. I remember reading in a paper years ago about him sleeping in an oxygen tent ( remember that one!!) and i thought 'yer lunatic'
Because you know I am one of those people who likes to support people who are real…have heart, a story, compassion, a family, love their ma, doin' it for the kids..type of person. Yep I am a reality TV persons dream i suppose…LOL..
but anyhow i need a connection and MJ lost me when he started being bizarre, weird and not reachable. Im sure it was the nuttiness of his world that sent him spiralling off the genius/madman spectrum but i sort of turned off, drifted away and put some distance in.
Not that he would have been the slightest bit concerned or bothered by that I imagine. Im sure there were enough yes men around him that it would be easy to believe you could do no wrong….
nah…i guess i just feel sorry for him though, such a sad life to lead….i hope somehow he has some peace now.
Interestingly enough (well to me anyhow) I was quite amazed when Isaac came home from school and told me that did i know Michael Jackson had died…and when i said that i did…
he reliably told me that yes in fact Michael Jackson had died and he had, had a heart attack and only lived for 10 seconds?
When I asked Isaac did he know who Michael Jackson was, he said very seriously…
'I think he is in the juniors mum'