For the next couple of hours i sat transfixed to the screen watching the story unfold and i don't really know why.
There was nothing really to see and most of the time it was just people repeating the same thing over and over again.
At one point you could tell that the newsreader knew he was dead and wanted to be the first to report it. But they were so reluctant, in case they were wrong that they had to resort to sledgehammer hinting.
This resulted in weird reporting along the lines of "we must stress that the official line is that Michael Jackson has been taken to hospital after collapsing at home, we cannot confirm or deny this.........(then) tributes are already coming in and we have Uri Geller on the line, 'what WAS Michael Jackson actually like Uri?'
All very sad, but just like when Princess Diana died we now have the spectacle of those people who take things to the extreme. I think we all know what i am talking about here. I have to turn off my telly sometimes.
I feel that this event is gonna get out of hand pretty quickly and by Monday we will have fans committing suicide and people who never met him wailing in the streets.
All very sad, but just like when Princess Diana died we now have the spectacle of those people who take things to the extreme. I think we all know what i am talking about here. I have to turn off my telly sometimes.
I feel that this event is gonna get out of hand pretty quickly and by Monday we will have fans committing suicide and people who never met him wailing in the streets.
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He certainly was a talented performer. Unfortunately he became increasingly bizarre under the pressures of life.
You are right, IMO, about the excessive reaction of many people to events like this involving superstars and celebrities.
Apparently he was subjected to child abuse by his father - in the form of repeated beatings.
I know not the truth of this but, since I know something about the effect that can have, I rather put down much of his adult behaviour to a combination of his trying to cope with that and the incessant media and stalking attention which these days attend any major international star - but particular the most flamboyant (gay?) ones in America.
The apparently orchestrated attempts to do him down with accusations of child abuse, which were never proved, and the derision with which much of the established media treated him may go some way to explain why, for many young people, he will become a martyr.
as to his music?
well -
According to AFP and BFBS he died of a medical cocktail, like Heath Ledger. Propz Pilgrim
I hope ppl don't commit suicide...
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