...is dead. 0_o

Good riddance. What a creep.

My dreams of making Thriller a true story either just took a huge step back or forward :|

Haha.

Yeah I really don’t care.

Ditto Virgil. It’s just so sudden and weird though. :P

It’s just odd. Out of absolutely nowhere.

Well, and this is just third party hearsay, but I heard that he was going into an operation to become a hermaphrodite. You should probably check this to see if its true, though

Oh man.

Fuck.

That’s like.

And just before his comeback.

And.

Like, everyone I know except for me had bought tickets for his comeback show and everything!

And.

But.

Damn….

...Let us not mourn, but remember what he brought us.

Thriller.

Hey now, I may not agree at all with his personal life (and who would?) but there’s no denying his musical brilliance.

Hey now, I may not agree at all with his personal life (and who would?) but there’s no denying his musical brilliance.

Ditto.

May he rest in peace, and never come back as a Zombie.

His spirit will live on in Plants vs. Zombies.

MSN already has a couple articles. Also, I heard earlier in the year that he had a major staph infection.

NOW WHO WILL WE CALL A PEDO AND CRACK PEDO JOKES ABOUT?

WHAT CAN I BELIEVE IN ANYMORE? MY WORLD IS CRAAAAAAAAAAASHING AHHHHHHHHHHH!

I liked his song "Remember the Time". Not really crazy about him otherwise.

Still, RIP MJ.

He’s dead. How can he be resting if he’s dead?

Were you resting before you were born? Now just pretend he went into that empty place we all came from.

There’s always Jacob Black to make pedo jokes at.

Aw, but I like Jacob. He’s the Murtagh of Twilight!

This is the goddamned MJ thread.

Mary Jane looks pretty hot.

Death is the natural conclusion to life.

dun dun dun

Guess I’ll be finding in the next few decades.

He had serious problems, though, you have to admit that.

I never liked him much. He sounded like a girl.

I love how up to a few minutes before his death he was a monster and then when he’s not around to feel a damn thing he’s a hero.

I am taking this opportunity to be as disrespectful as possible to his grave to stay consistent.

I love how up to a few minutes before his death he was a monster and then when he’s not around to feel a damn thing he’s a hero.

Actually, a lot of people I know praised his music and set aside his questionable private life since well before his death.

One of my schoolmates thinks he was inconsiderate because he didn’t wait until after the opening day of his tour that she had a ticket for before dying.

A lot of people I know didn’t even think he was a pedophile. They just thought (or said that they did) he was…eccentric, and explained away his changes with that.

He was a great musician, and he did all kinds of charity work you never hear about… It’s sad that his legacy will be marred by the imbeciles that are more concerned with his face than his music and more concerned with the bad things he was accused of doing than the good things that we know he did…

Damn straight.

I hate tabloids.

Weren’t you the one trying to be as disrespectful as possible to MJ?

This reminds me of what happened with Jade Goody. No-one cares if you criticise people, until they die, at which point they are all great and wonderful humans and you are a heartless wretch.

Only in America can a poor black boy die a rich white woman.

I wouldn't demean the upper class, the Caucasian race, and the Female sex by putting Michael Jackson in the same category as them.

I wouldn’t demean Michael Jackson by putting the Irish in the same category as him.

Apparently he wasn’t that rich, either.

Thriller kind of creeped me out.

Yes, I know. I’m backing up what a terrifying zombie-thing he’d be. Especially with all the other zombies dancing in perfect unison…shudder

Next Halloween…post pictures.

OH LOOK, BRITNEY SPEARS IS JOINING THE DEAD PERSON CLUB

Theres a club?!?!?

Important question: Do we get club jackets? :D

Yeah, I just heard that. :P

@ puppet - Death Note is awesome. And they do exist because you can buy them at animey storey places.

I didn't like Michael Jackson's music that much, but I acknowledge the fact that it was great even if it wasn't my kind of thing. As for his personality, some of his actions (even if the pedophilia accusation was false) and his post-black appearance, well he was a freakin' freak.

When someone dies they are always treated as a saint no matter how horrible a person they were in life (not that Michael is a horrible person, but he certainly was weird and creepy), so I will all refer to you to the eulogy song from The Chaser's War On Everything - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkM9cDiWJ6o
If only they had written the song after Michael's death because it would've been good to include him in it, too. Some of celebs are Australian though so most of you might not get some people such as Belinda Emmett.

Britney Spears isn’t dead, btw.

Michael Quest III, most epic video ever?

I was in a dumpy little restaraunt in DC when I heard the news and at first, I thought it was just a publicity stunt. That night when I got to the hotel, every single channel was talking about it, and CNN went all out so I’m pretty sure its true now. (But what if it is a conspiracy?!)

Other than that, though, I am quite heartbroken. Michael Jackson is a musical amazement. I mean, fame did some funny things to his head/nose but still, I love his music. And that is that. Unforunately, I never really got into him until the last two years. I really like that song ‘The Way You Make Me Feel’ and of course, Beat It. I don’t like Thriller that much. Uhm, ok, that’s it.

What annoys me most is all the “his music will live forever!” and “we’ll miss you, MJ!” and so on. I mean, come on! In forty years, few people will listen to his music. How many people still listen to Bing Crosby? And he had actual talent!

Michael Jackson had an interesting voice, and was skilled in profane dancing, but…

There are many better singers. Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Pavarotti…

And for dancing? Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly could dance circles around him. Synchronized thrusting and twitching is just not that impressive.

Yeah… and it’s really bugging me, all the “this will be the funeral of the century, bleh bleh bleh”

Are they SERIOUS?

Honestly, all these people the media rave about that are attending his funeral? People like Mariah Carey, Brooke Shields… they don’t matter. They are celebrities, most of whom will have fifteen minutes, after which no one gives a damn except morning talk shows. For a true funeral of the century, look at Winston Churchill’s. He was given a state funeral, hundreds of statesmen from around the world came to pay him tribute, thousands upon thousands of Britons stood by railway stations in silence just to watch the train carrying his body go by.

Churchill made a difference in the world. He helped save Britain from Nazi Germany (and, by extension, made it possible for the rest of Europe to be saved. Can you imagine having to reclaim Europe without Britain as a base of operations?), he wrote books that were invaluable to historians, he gave profound speeches.

Michael Jackson? Until he died, his music was mostly forgotten, as was he.

John Lennon sucks.

How very relevant that is…

@WiseWillow
I agree. He was mostly forgotten. Most of attention lately had come from his criminal issues not his music. And the whole day is devoted to him today. It’s so very annoying.

I do not know. I guess it is moderately relevant, since we’re basically asking, “What did MJ do?”

All my posts are relevant. You just have to think for a while.

Well, even though I don’t really like his voice or music (if I wanted to listen to people who sound like girls, why can’t I just listen to girls in the first place?), he did revolutionize music videos and stuff, didn’t he? Credit where credit is due.

Yes, that’s true, but I don’t think he should get a full day of coverage or that he should bump everything else out of the news. I agree about listening to girls to hear people who sound like girls too. =-)

It fits you nicely, and I said that I get the John Lennon thing now.