This May Lose Me Some Friends

[poliphilo]

The music never dies. It goes on and on and on. Ad nauseum. Someone switch the bloody thing off.

Jackson's work is kitsch. Even the better stuff is slick and empty.

Fred Astaire said Jackson was the greatest dancer of the 20th century. I refuse to believe he meant it.

Bad? Not in the way he wanted us to think.

I find it shocking that people make excuses for Jackson that they wouldn't dream of making for other middle-aged men who like to share their beds with children.

By the time of his death he was a freeloading junkie who indulged himself in every little whim- but couldn't be bothered to pay his staff.

Celebrity turns men and women into monsters. The strong-minded get out before it destroys every last scrap of decency and truth.  Jackson wasn't strong-minded.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I see him as an icon- perhaps the ultimate icon- of Celebrity culture. I hate it that he's going to be enthroned up there in Celebrity Heaven alongside Elvis and Monroe and Garland.

Maybe just not the icon his advocates intended

[solar-diablo.livejournal.com]

I think he is an icon of the late 20th century, if only a slice of it. His music is a proper representation of consumer culture - quick, slick, easily digestible, and inoffensive. His private life? An equally accurate representation of the mass psychology of the time, with celebrity worship, obsession with youth, self-absorption, and self-gratification as the central tenets.

Re: Maybe just not the icon his advocates intended

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Not so much an icon as an Awful Warning.