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06/27/09
When he took that terrible turn down the weird and damning path, I ignored it all and tried to live with the memory of the MJ I fell in love with. It was difficult.
Thanks for writing a piece that is so "spot on" Hortense!
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And I'll continue to post on this thread as long as I like. But hey, you are welcome to skip my posts, much like I'll skip yours. Problem solved!
06/27/09
You hear "King of Pop" and it probably has as much relevance as Howard Stern being the "King of All Media".
MJ WAS the King of Pop for quite awhile, he was phenomenon. Thriller was the HUGEST selling album of ALL TIME for quite awhile.
I would imagine its hard to understand if you are younger because there are pop stars but there aren't mega stars like MJ anymore, there are a lot more people on your radar whose careers are much shorter lived.
I feel like MJ was the closest thing to the Beatles my generation ever had. I was never a superfan but he was inescapable. From the red "Beat It" jacket to the glove, to the moonwalk, he was larger than life and EVERYWHERE.
The weird anti-social guy was a totally different person than the star he was in the 80s.
06/27/09
Anyway. Our differences make the world go 'round.
06/27/09
And I'll say it again: I'm sorry if I offended any Jacko fans. Cheers.
06/27/09
"I've seen people writing things like, "I feel like my childhood died," which is, of course, code for: "I just realized that there really is no going back and I'm mortal just like everybody else."
The night MJ died, I spent a half hour watching videos on YouTube, then I curled up in bed next to my husband and just stared at the ceiling. It took a few minutes but I finally figured out why I felt so wretched about the whole thing - it was just the latest in a series of events that have confirmed for me that I am in fact no longer young, that I am an adult, that I will one day die, and that I do not much of a say over when or where I will die.
It's all stuff I knew intellectually but when I guess it took having my first childhood idol die of a drug overdose to really hammer those truths home.
So even though I mourn the loss of MJ - although truthfully, he's been gone for nearly two decades now - what I am really mourning is the loss of my youth. I am not really sure how to deal with that, frankly. I know I certainly did not expect something like the death of a pop star to make me ponder my own mortality, that's for sure.
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(Granted, it's a little mindboggling to remember that MTV used to play videos, but hey.)
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On the one hand, I firmly believe that people should be able to do whatever they want with their own bodies. That degree of plastic surgery is not that much different from various other extreme forms of body modification. He went way over the line and into the next county, though.
Oddly enough, it's made me more content with my own lot in life. I have a lot of facial scars, but there isn't much to be done about them that won't potentially make my appearance a lot worse. Living with that is really not so bad.
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On behalf of both me and Paul, I hope he lives to be 133.
06/27/09
I was inconsolable when Johnny Cash died. Inconsolable.
06/27/09
I'll just wait my turn for exclaiming how [insert celeb name] was really such a nasty person and can we move on now?
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But then again I work in the media, and I kind of have to pay attention for my job. But still. The constant AP updates - "Moving vans are at the house! So is Janet!" - are killing me.
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But I didn't run around yelling at everyone to shut up about Johnny Cash.
06/27/09
Sorry about your dog. Losing a pet is so hard. I have a very lame dog, and it upsets me to think about her dying.