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Damn, Tim, you really had a ton of great points up there, and (deep breath) I totally agree with you. Especially about crazy people making the best shit. Slow clap, my friend.
Does Star Wars not make you feel? You're killing time on an electronic message board discussing things in an ether of 111000100101010 that is primarily devoted to the discussion of a bunch of movies. Movies made by a socially inept and possible self-loathing geek from California. Were the Beatles not just a band? Who cares. Drug users all. Some were bad fathers. Moustache wearers.
MJ had a TON of issues. He was a kid, just bast baby, when he and his older brothers were thrust into the pop entertainment machine in the early 70s. He contributed to the diseased juggernaut that was disco. He returned to make a popular album in 1982, then to make less popular albums as time went on until the mid 90s. That's the sterile overview.
But we're talking about music. Music makes you feel, you should know this. It isn't just nostalgia, it happens in the moment. It brings you up, it brings you down. It makes you want to dance if you can't makes you want to punch stuff, makes you want to drive fast or make love to that special someone. It's notes on a page, it's percussion and a voice on tape, in a groove, or played by laser. But it moves us.
Having the pleasure to see a lot of MJ stuff here in school as the teachers educated the kids as to what the big deal is about, I got to see what I took for granted. I always liked his music even if I wasn't the biggest fan. He was just always around, and I always found at least one song I liked on all his albums. But seeing him now, I saw an amazing performer. He could really sing and emote. With Thriller, he chose the right people to make the most of his abilities to make creative music and reach out to people. He used his music not just to inspire a toe tap to go along with that 45 single sale with a Pepsi to go, but also to inspire change. He had uplifting, positive messages that people really responded to. I look at the man in the mirror all the time.
And he could dance like a motherfucker.
In entertainment, there has to be two personas: The Entertainer that the world sees, that we look up to or hate, that entertains or makes us feel with their craft. Then there's the "real" person, the mother's child. That person tries to live as close to normal as possible, but it's a hard balance. It would be a life that many of us couldn't handle, and even the successful entertainers have a hard time balancing it all. I'm not excusing his suspicious behavior, I'm just saying that love of MJs music, videos and art have nothing, and need not have anything to do with him being a questionable father or a kid toucher. His music and legacy transcended all that dirt even as he lived.
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