Michael Jackson Dead

DLFlux said:
I'm all for respect for the dead and everything, but it really does annoy me when people get so cut up about someone they haven't even met dieing because they like their music or films or whatever. It's pathetic. Pay your respects - fine. Stop acting as if he was your fucking brother or something.

How about paying respects to the soldiers who died serving your country? Nobody gives a flying fuck when that's on the news. They just get on with their day. MJ dies and everyone are acting like he was God or something.

Not to mention the hypocrites. "MJ is a pedo!" "Pedo's should be given the death penalty" "Michael Jackson is dead? OMG! Rest in Peace, we love you!"

Get a grip.

It's a fucked up world we live in. Everyone is more concerned about who we see on the TV or hear on the radio than they are of those who protect our nations, or prevent crime, or save people's lives.

Grr.

Rant over.

EDIT: This isn't aimed at anyone here, just the way I've been seeing people on TV and Facebook talking about him.
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QFT, I couldnt agree more there, my statement was merely about the fact that I respect him for his musical talent. I have been laughing at the idiots on the radio that have been texting/ringing and being proper "OMG MJ Noooo" and shit.....

They really do need to get a (excuse my french) Fucking grip tbqh :P
 
DLFlux said:
Not to mention the hypocrites. "MJ is a pedo!" "Pedo's should be given the death penalty" "Michael Jackson is dead? OMG! Rest in Peace, we love you!"
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Yes, a week ago he was the laughing stock of the public, and people had no qualms about calling him a washed up pedophile circus freak. In death however, the man is God :P I'm going out shopping for a birthday present for my old man today, and I can't wait to see how many record stores have made Michael Jackson stands hehe.

Personally I'm not really affected by this. I was never a fan, and I don't care about his contributions to popular culture and what not. I do feel for the man's children though. The oldest can't be much more than 10 or 11 and that's no age to lose a parent at.
 
Damn...one of the best dancers and pop singers of all times has left the world. My mother and I grew with his music, I am a die hard fan of soundtracks like "Thriller", "Bad", "Billy Jean", "Michael Jackson's Ghosts-Special Music Video"... Oh well...

Regardless of what he might have done (I still have my doubst)....we can't deny he had the talent. Wait a sec....where's Thriller CD copy?! :gasp:

Now is gonna be a pain in the ass to get one :sad:

Rest in Peace Michael Jackson -_-
 
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At least he's one less child molester we have to worry about. :wacky: He was cool before he had the melty face/became a sexual predator. At least we still have his music on CDs, which would be the only thing I miss. :awesome:
 
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Repliica said:
Honestly, Micheal Jackson has pulled some whack stunts.. the first and most famous going from black to white. Then the whole nose job.. baby over the balcony.. I wouldn't be surprised if this was all a publicity stunt.
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The absolute icon of media pressure has finally yielded the single most long awaited monetary return. High ranking press and boot-heel paparazzi alike have stood on the blood-money mount and with the gaze of a stoned astronomer, lenses poised to catch the descent of the Star purported to be the most unlikely to fall. They have backspaced, highlighted, copy & pasted his self-esteem from age 5 to the point where he felt it necessary to submit his own face to editorial. His goal was to be a living example of a complete evaporation of the walls between races, gender and generations.

Walls are needed for the foundation of the economical elite.Walls between hearts. Walls between information and ignorance. Walls between columns in a magazine, political parties, and cultural values. They needed a huge court drama just as much as you all desire a Never Never Land in your yard right now. They were not concerned about finding him guilty. Their primary concern was the massive amount of cash that they would collect off of a time and tv consuming trial. Afterall....when we all sat down to watch the trial we were also given a tsumami of advertisements to choose from, where we not? Media has never cared whether or not you care for your idol...they care only for the attention payed to the event they elect the celebrity to participate in. The attention good or bad, is what makes money. They also planned weeks in advance of the accusation to have him found innocent, because they would need not only the sentiment and onslaught of memorbilia sales to keep fan support, but the emotional havoc such a trial could wreak on him, as mental collapse of a celebrity has ramifications that reach like tentacles into areas of life outside of a personal isolated pressure or something as dominating as a manufactured crime... and this births more creativity.

Watch it happen....watch the tributes albums cut. Watch the live coverage of the candlelight vigil replayed over and over for years. Watch the documentary release from his siblings. Watch the "Previously unreleased court hearing clips"...watch the commercials...how nearly every fucking tangible item will sport a white glove, a track clip, a silhouette of a moonwalk. They will drag out MaCaullay Culkin. SOMEONE WILL IMITATE MICHEAL on American Idol....quicker than you can change the channel. Simon knows it....ask him. :wtf: All who have followed in Michaels literal dance steps-Usher and others, will have their asses parked on MTV and VH1 to quip some Shoebox Greeting Card line about him and them and some fictitious party...or after the awards..."and he said....and I looked at him and I said...it was like this moment where...." Ya know....fuggin....and I know they have to do it....I know they do not want to say anything ever...do you? I mean....poor Michael....The same people that throw their babies 5 ft in the air at banks over hard tile floors and family reunions in swimming pools are the same people that point with the remote as if it were gavel and criticize the man for holding his child over a balcony....as if he was saying" Goddamit...this is proof I likez me women...now get the fuck off the property!





He should have shook his dick out the window.




 
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My younger sister actually woke me up at 6am this morning just to tell me this. -__- I just went back to sleep.

Now that I'm thinking properly, I guess it was pretty shocking for him to suddenly die of a heart attack. Was it ever reported that he had an illness? I should really start watching more television. >_> He'll be missed, of course. Even if he went a little crazy at times, his music was really catchy and popular, so he had a lot of fans.

This is of course, if he really IS dead. :ffs:
 
DLFlux said:
How about paying respects to the soldiers who died serving your country? Nobody gives a flying fuck when that's on the news. They just get on with their day. MJ dies and everyone are acting like he was God or something.
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Agreed.

And guys what I said before was because I didn't actually know he was dead. It wasn't until 12pm that I learned it was true and despite me saying that stuff.. I actually DO LIKE MJ. Not once did I state that I didn't. I just poked fun towards him because it was a spur of the moment.

I grew up listening to him and everything and honestly, I'm still in shock right now. I can't actually believe MJ is gone..

well at least he left something GREAT BEHIND THAT NOBODY HAS MENTIONED!


...MICHEAL JACKSON'S MOONWALKER! That was released on Sega.. man that game was super fun 83


Btw, I don't actually believe in the Media. It's why I don't watch tv anymore. I found this info all out second hand. :P
 
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Pretty crazy stuff, it's our generation's 'Elvis dying' (or even John Lennon dying) moment I guess. You'd be hard pressed to find another musician apart from maybe Paul McCartney whose death will cause this much attention. It's all rather surreal.
 
I loved Michael Jackson, he will always be one of the greatest entertainers that ever lived.

I mean this in the nicest possible way, but he was a freak of nature. Most geniuses are utterly weird in some way. Perhaps he is better off where he is now, most people had already made their minds up about him.
 
DLFlux said:
I'm all for respect for the dead and everything, but it really does annoy me when people get so cut up about someone they haven't even met dieing because they like their music or films or whatever. It's pathetic. Pay your respects - fine. Stop acting as if he was your fucking brother or something.

How about paying respects to the soldiers who died serving your country? Nobody gives a flying fuck when that's on the news. They just get on with their day. MJ dies and everyone are acting like he was God or something.

Not to mention the hypocrites. "MJ is a pedo!" "Pedo's should be given the death penalty" "Michael Jackson is dead? OMG! Rest in Peace, we love you!"

Get a grip.

It's a fucked up world we live in. Everyone is more concerned about who we see on the TV or hear on the radio than they are of those who protect our nations, or prevent crime, or save people's lives.

Grr.

Rant over.

EDIT: This isn't aimed at anyone here, just the way I've been seeing people on TV and Facebook talking about him.
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Well fucking said

It annoys me too, when our lads get no fucking more than a quick mention of a name and forgotten about on the news when they are dying over in Iraq/Afghanistan

Yet people like Jade Goody and Michael Jackson get people behaving like tits over them. So they were famous for one reason or another, and what? I'd value the life of a squaddie over them 10 times over some bloody reality tv star/pop icon
 
I never watch T.V or listen to the radio so I found out at work.

Then people kept texting me all day. Who cares really unless you think the person your telling or texting cares...why bother wasting your credit?

I've already heard a few jokes today, one of which made me laugh:

Farrah Fawcett died and upon meeting God she was granted one wish.
She thought for a while and then said, "I wish for all of the children in the world to be safe and free from harm."
So God killed Michael Jackson.

That's probably a tad off, but ever since learning of MJ's actions towards certain kids, I've not really cared for him.

This goes for anyone. Who cares if they changed a particular genre of music?

If they didn't like being abused as a child (if it is true he was abused) and they know of the pain it brought later on, then clearly they know it's wrong and they aren't just acting on what they've grown up with or whatever. They're doing it because they like to touch little kids and that is all.

So yeah. Don't like him, like his music.

Where the hell are the kids mothers?
 
Wow. I really didn't see that coming. I'm not particularly affected by it, I wasn't a big fan of Michael Jackson, but death is death, which is always unfortunate.
 
Putting Jade Goody in the same category as Michael Jackson is ludicrous for a start, one was a nonentity, the other was one of the most famous musicians that has ever lived.

And all this 'oh why don't people mourn the soldiers that die etc' nonsense. Let's make a distinction here - I am not weeping over Michael Jackson's death, and I think getting upset over it is silly. Even if my favourite musician or football player died tomorrow, I might be sad but I wouldn't go nuts. But of course people are going to talk about stuff like this, as I said this is teh most famous death of a musician since John Lennon died. And of course Michael Jackson's death will attract a lot of attention, he sold millions of records and was widely known and was one of the most influential people in the music business. There are probably people in the middle of the Amazon rainforest who knew who Michael Jackson was. A soldier that dies is a tragedy for those around him but you can't expect the outside world to pick up on it. Does it suck that the world is like this? Maybe. But that is how it is and pontificating about dead soldiers is just pointless if you ask me.
 
My point was not to compare them but everytime I turn the tv on, they are there, every sodding channel. Its just annoying. I've resorted to not watching tv :wacky:
 
Personally I don't really care, he was going to die someday afterall. I didn't know him and I didn't like his music that much.

DLFlux said:
I'm all for respect for the dead and everything, but it really does annoy me when people get so cut up about someone they haven't even met dieing because they like their music or films or whatever. It's pathetic. Pay your respects - fine. Stop acting as if he was your fucking brother or something.
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In a way it is pathetic but at the same time it is sort of understandable. If I was a huge fan of a certain persons music I would be pretty annoyed that I wouldn't be able to hear any new shit from them or see them live. But I do find it quite annoying when people take it too far.

Furthermore, I'd like to add that MJ was well past his prime. Besides that tour he was planning to do, it seemed like he had disappeared from the Media's spotlight in the years leading to his death (excluding the jokes at his expense). He was remembered for his old stuff and always will be. So I don't think his death will really make a difference, if he wasn't planning to do that tour he may as well of been dead anyway.
DLFlux said:
How about paying respects to the soldiers who died serving your country? Nobody gives a flying fuck when that's on the news. They just get on with their day. MJ dies and everyone are acting like he was God or something.
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To put it simply, people knew who MJ was. No one gives a fuck about the soldier who gets a 40 second story on the news. Everyone knows that people get killed in wars, It's to be expected. It is quite possible that someone in this world will die tomorrow, but I won't care because I (hopefully) would've never met them.

People will miss MJ for thier own reasons no matter how pathetic they may seem because they knew who MJ was and they knew that he left an impact on the (musical) world.

DFLux said:
It's a fucked up world we live in. Everyone is more concerned about who we see on the TV or hear on the radio than they are of those who protect our nations, or prevent crime, or save people's lives.
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I agree it is fucked up, but meh..what can ya do?



!BRITTANY said:
He is most certainly dead x_x; I don't know why everyone's calling it a stunt, that's just being in denial -_-

Shame tbh. :ness:
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Amen to that!
 
charliepanayi sums it up pretty well so I won't go into details but that's prety much my thoughts on this as well. I mentioned this in the Jade Goody thread a while back but it's the general public that makes the media what it is today. There's no point getting rage over how the media covering this, if it's bothering you that badly then just ignore it.

Was a bit of a holy shit moment for me when I found out last night, I know he's not been shown in the best light in recent times but I'm still a fan of his music which is what I'll mostly remember him for.

R.I.P. MJ.
 
charliepanayi said:
Paul McCartney whose death will cause this much attention. It's all rather surreal.
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No love for Ringo?:gasp:

I wouldn't be upset if a million soldiers died, then again I wouldn't be upset if a million Michael Jacksons died either. Neither of them really has any influence on my life. Michael Jackson stopped making music that I liked therefore whatever happened to him was of no real interest to me.
 
Well of course soldiers aren't going to get all these tributes like MJ is getting, it's not as if said soldier is a world wide superstar/worldy known for his talents. What do you expect really. Every soldier that has been killed in action does get rightfully mentioned, to compare the two is a bit daft really.

I think the jokes are sick, and I don't think he was a peadophile like so many people claim he was. I don't see why I should joke about something like that. I believe he was innocent - he was just a very strange individual at times, and I respected his talent too.

Get a grip? To the person who said that earlier - I'm sure everyone else pays their sodding respects to fallen soldiers - why imply that they don't? Why criticise them for saying a simple message of respect for a dead celebrity? If you've been a fan of someone since the day they started their work, what do you expect long time fans to do? Not give a shit?
 
Hmm so i heard. I dont care at all if im being honest. His music never influenced or affected my life in anyway, shape or form.
None of his actions have ever done anything for me either apart from maybe laughing at Jokes about him on the TV.
All the best to the family and whatever but i really couldnt care less.
If it was someone i was interested in id feeel totally different. :/
 
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