Almost Too Painful

[poliphilo]

I expected LJ to be full of stuff about the Jackson trial and it isn't. At least this corner of the LJ universe isn't. I wonder why.

My reason for steering clear (until now) is the difficulty of writing about it with dispassion. Jackson has been getting me all stirred up for decades now. Love the music (some of it.) Hate the preening and self-deception.

I wish I didn't care, but I do. There was a moment- a very brief moment- when Jackson was not only the greatest singer and dancer in the world, but also the most beautiful human being. Bille Jean. That's a fabulous song. And Michael is a vision, a visitation, an otherworldly androgyne, a god.

And then....

And then the decline, sinking deeper and deeper into freakishness, into Messianic fantasy, into a candy-coloured porno-heaven. It's been like watching a self-exiled Caesar go to the dogs.

Tiberius on Capri- all alone with his flatterers and pimps.

Yesterday, he turned up at the courthouse an hour late in his pyjamas and nearly got his bail rescinded. He doesn't seem to realise how serious this is. It's as if there's no-one in his entourage with the balls to tell him, "Er, Michael, you're not actually writing the script any more."

Comments

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

I confess that I am not following his trial - at least, as far as I am able to avoid it. Unfortunately, details are being plastered on every damn news show out there, even some that should have better things to talk about.

And Michael is a vision, a visitation, an otherworldly androgyne, a god.

I also confess to disagreeing with you wholeheartedly on this. Michael was never an androgyne (as very old pictures can attest)...until he plastic surgery-d himself. I also don't think he was aiming for androgyny but rather femininity. To me, David Bowie is androgynous, K.D. Lang is androgynous....Michael Jackson is a horrible nightmare. I cannot help but wonder if Michael is a frustrated transsexual - something tells me he would very much like to be a Caucasian woman. There isn't a word like "transsexual" for wanting to be of another ethnicity, but I really do have to wonder, with all the bleaching, etc. he has put his skin through over the years.

People are saying that he's "coming unhinged" - I say that he's been unhinged for quite some time, and this is merely him continuing to sink in depravity and jackiejj is probably right that the reason he looked so awful yesterday is because he is getting his first dose of reality in probably twenty years. Imagine what a rude awakening it would be to have lived most of your life in the "happy ending" of a fairy tale, to suddenly wake up amongst the cinders.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

There was a moment, after a certain amount of surgery, but before he turned white, when Jackson
was very beautiful- at least I thought so.

I agree that he's always been unhinged. I don't know if you saw his movie Moonwalker- my kids dragged to to it- but it was the sort of wish-fulfilment fantasy an 8 year old might have made.

[ibid.livejournal.com]

He was quite a handsome Man when he was about 19 or so.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The real Michael Jackson (before surgery) was good-looking enough, and then he kept chiselling away and chiselling away until he was really beautiful, then he chiselled some more and the effect was spoiled and thereafter he just got more and more grotesque.

[ibid.livejournal.com]

I don't even like the chiseled look, but then I prefer roughness to perfection. Apparently Liz Taylor warned Lisa Marie Presley she would never keep him unless she made herself glamourous 24/7!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I doubt whether Jackson's marriage to Lisa Marie was ever a "real" marriage.

[ibid.livejournal.com]

apparently it was. Lisa Marie said so. She probably popped Jackson's cherry!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I read somewhere that Diana Ross did that!

But how can we believe anything we read about any of these people? Most of what they let us know about them is controlled (and perhaps invented) by publicists.