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« Reply #20 on: June 28, 2009, 10:47:25 AM »

MJ's final rehearsal might become his final album.

They made a full release-quality recording of him the day before he died.  People are going to want to see that.
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« Reply #21 on: June 28, 2009, 10:58:27 AM »

Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Billy Mays.

It's all Vince Offer's fault.

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« Reply #22 on: June 28, 2009, 02:12:17 PM »

*pan out*
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« Reply #23 on: June 28, 2009, 02:35:42 PM »

"I'm gonna give you forty seconds, 'cuz you know I can't do this all day"
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« Reply #25 on: June 29, 2009, 10:34:10 AM »

FUCK YOU
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« Reply #26 on: June 29, 2009, 10:44:26 AM »

I think that's one of the best Achewood's I've ever seen.

...Not that I read it regularly.
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« Reply #27 on: June 29, 2009, 11:03:22 AM »

Thriller is the best selling album of all time. It has 7 singles out of 9 tracks, and they all hit Billboard top 10. It won a record-breaking seven Grammy Awards at the 1984 Grammys, including awards in three different genres: pop, R&B and rock. That same year, Jackson won eight American Music Awards, the Special Award of Merit and three MTV Video Music Awards. It is one of only three albums to remain in the top ten of the Billboard 200 for a full year, and spent 37 weeks at number one out of the 80 consecutive weeks it was in the top ten. The album was also the first of three to have seven Billboard Hot 100 top ten singles, and was the only album to be the best-seller of two years (1983–1984) in the US. Thriller cemented Jackson's status as one of the predominant pop stars of the late 20th century, and enabled him to break down racial barriers via his appearances on MTV and meetings with President Ronald Reagan at the White House.

Jackson set another record with Bad, becoming the first, and currently only, artist to have five songs to hit number-one from one album. In July 2006, it was announced by the The Official UK Charts Company that Bad was the ninth biggest selling album in British history [THIS IS A BIG DEAL. THE BEATLES HAD MORE THAN NINE ALBUMS. THE KINKS. THE WHO. ETC].

Dangerous was Jackson's fastest-selling ever in the United States with four million shipped in under two months. This broke the sales record for Bad in 1987, in twice as many months, but the same circulation. Dangerous also debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 Album Charts with 326,500 copies sold in one week of release. It also managed to stay in the Top 10 for a week in the 65th week, reaching #10 after Jackson received the Grammy Legend Award at the 1993 Grammy Awards. The album received a huge boost in sales in 1993 when he performed at the Super Bowl and was interviewed by Oprah Winfrey. This meant Dangerous spent 117 weeks inside the Billboard 200, thirty weeks over Bad.

The success of these three albums has defined the way people view the world and music. Even if you weren't alive in the 80s, your parents were, and it shaped their lives. He is a legend. He is easily one of the most important and influential people to have ever lived; those who shape culture always are. If you don't care about him dying, you're probably not very smart or interesting. I don't care if you hate his music; recognize the talent, the ability, the impact. For the record, no, I am not a fan. I went through his discography the day after he died and it didn't really interest me. But saying that you don't care he died, that he was unimportant, is like not recognizing the Beatles, or Elvis, or fucking Shakespeare or Chaucer.

I'm not crying or anything, but seriously, people need to stop acting like this is something to go "ok" at and just forget about.
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« Reply #28 on: June 29, 2009, 11:05:03 AM »

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« Reply #29 on: June 29, 2009, 11:33:11 AM »

The man who died was not the same man as the one who made the 80s what it was.

What died was the possibility that that man may some day return, as has been stated in more-depressing-than-necessary terms by Mr. Bear, but it's not really like anybody was expecting it.

It's different than, for example, when Kurt Cobain died, because when Kurt Cobain died Kurt Cobain died (not that I liked him anyway, but that is how it is).  MJ's body giving out early is, if anything, a reward: after much too long, he's finally been granted an existence where he's not being bothered by anybody.  And if you have any religious beliefs then you can be content knowing that he's finally met a father who gives two shits about him.
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« Reply #30 on: June 29, 2009, 11:46:21 AM »

Yeah.

"Lie Bot, what is the saddest thing?"

"When a father outlives his son."

I'm fairly removed from most of this but Joe Jackson gives a brand new spin on that one.
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« Reply #31 on: June 29, 2009, 12:06:08 PM »

Possibly the worst thing about this is that by pretty much all accounts he was among the kindest, gentlest people you'd ever meet, even with all the Circumstances. It's just... you know. Michael Jackson is dead, and, say, Dick Cheney is still being a living vortex to the abyssal void.
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« Reply #32 on: June 29, 2009, 12:17:28 PM »

Possibly the worst thing about this is that by pretty much all accounts he was among the kindest, gentlest people you'd ever meet, even with all the Circumstances. It's just... you know. Michael Jackson is dead, and, say, Dick Cheney is still being a living vortex to the abyssal void.

well yeah, nobody's found his phylactery yet
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« Reply #33 on: June 29, 2009, 12:24:53 PM »

Actually, I am glad MJ is dead, because it means Space Channel 5 can come true.

If you don't know what that is, it's the sequel to Moonwalker in which a cure is found for MJ's death. And then they dance.

Anyway, put a crown on this and call it a thread icon:
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« Reply #34 on: June 30, 2009, 04:34:31 PM »

Brent's got it.  Jackson is a quintessential tragic figure -- so much talent, in such a tortured man.  Whether you believe he really was a disgusting predator or merely the victim of vicious rumor (and they're not mutually exclusive -- I think the first set of allegations was probably true and the last set was probably false), there's no denying he was out of his damn mind in the last years of his life, between dangling babies and swearing with a straight face that he'd never had plastic surgery.  If he'd died 15-20 years sooner, his legacy would have been untarnished, but neither would he have served as such an example of both the best and worst of the human condition.
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« Reply #35 on: July 10, 2009, 10:35:01 AM »

At this point I want to grab Joe Jackson by the collar and scream, "You wanna know who killed your son?  Try the man in the mirror, you jackoff!"
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« Reply #36 on: July 11, 2009, 02:27:59 PM »

He is a legitimately terrible human being.  There's little more that can be said about him.

I think he knows perfectly well what he's done and just doesn't care.  He got paid, therefore he succeeded in what he was doing.  For God's sake the man turned his son's death into a commercial for his latest business venture.
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« Reply #37 on: July 11, 2009, 08:49:58 PM »

Well, that I don't blame on him.  He was clearly not allowed to speak, at all, about anything, period, except his latest business venture, and when that reject from the Best Buy ads kept pressing him for it that's all he could do.  For all intents and purposes, he did tragically lose a son, and that's not a good time to be pressed for a sound bite.

That said, the mourning period is over, and the fucker is milking the circumstances far beyond what they're worth.  And he'd better be fucking kept way the hell away from those kids before he molests them in an immeasurably deeper way than just touching their dicks.
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« Reply #38 on: July 11, 2009, 10:04:33 PM »

Plus he looks like a Blackula.
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« Reply #39 on: July 11, 2009, 10:43:54 PM »

He's got a homepage. Part of me wants to take him up on the offer of an autograph, just as a curiosity, but the rest of me doesn't want to stroke his ego.

How much is postage to... er...

...to Germany?

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