Comments on: Obama Elected, Michael Jackson Dead, Our Generation Defined

By: jon

jon — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:34:06 +0000

I’ve been a huge MJ fan all of my life. Its really ridiculous how much people worship OBAMA. He doesn’t define my life or our generation. Are you serious? The man has only been president for 7 months and you think he defines our generation??

Michael is totally different, we have actually grown up with this man’s music and videos. OBAMA is just the current fling

By: sam g

sam g — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:08:02 +0000

true say matt, support u in ur comment. thats exactly wat happens in this world, people brings u up to face encourage and appload but den wen ur gr8, they’d sought to bring u down, yea they tried, they really did but hey he sold more records now dan ever, even more generations who didnt know him doe now and wondering who this MJ was, have u seen in humna history any1 who sold records or entertain or perform as this black man? None! and none could b like him!

By: Victor Pineiro

Victor Pineiro — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:55:26 +0000

Man, that Matt dude has probably summed up the MJ problem better than any journalist I’ve read in the past few days (and I’ve read them all). Wonder why he doesn’t write for PopTen?

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:28:59 +0000

Man, that Matt dude sure is a preachy, pretentious son of a bitch, ain’t he?

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:23:20 +0000

The man was undoubtedly an unparalleled performer and a musical genius, but maybe it’s best if we don’t try to whitewash our memories of him. Much of what went wrong for Michael was caused by the schism that we imposed between his public persona and his true self. We, the American public, did to him what we do to so many of our celebrities.

We built him up with praise and adulation of his talent, then turned on him when his popularity had reached saturation and our appetite could no longer be satiated by simple enjoyment of his art. We feasted like starved rats upon the corpse of his career and public persona, and now some seek to purge our shared conscience of the guilt this brings us after his death by eulogizing his greatness, safely tucking away all memory of the sadistic glee we took in endlessly discussing his every bizarre and eccentric act.

We do a great disservice to public figures when we whittle down their existences to a mere litany of virtues and sins. Michael, like all people, was neither saint nor demon, but a mixture of both. Hopefully when we remember him, we will remember a human being, one much loved and much abused by the public he worked to entertain.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:53:38 +0000

word!