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

[sunfell.livejournal.com]

Your opinion is relevant. And grounded.

Jackson was a good pop-artist. "Off the Wall" fueled my studies in tech school.

But the man was a product of an unfortunate collision of rare probabilities that had stems of propogation which were both highly positive and highly negative- his incredible talent being the positive stem, and his early separation from grounded reality being the negative stem.

In the end, they simply cancelled each other out, destroying him in the process. In my book, he'll be listed under 'don't be this guy'.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'm too old to have any emotional attachment to Jackson's music. I remember taking my kids to see Moonwalker and being amazed at its puerility.

"he'll be listed under 'don't be this guy'" That's an excellentway of putting it.

[michaeljohngrist.com (from livejournal.com)]

I remember seeing it- loved it, I suppose mostly for the transformation seqUence, where he turns into a spaceship. That rocked. Plus the music and magical leaning dancing awed me. I guess that was the most I ever liked him. Now, just sad what he became, seems like bring dead is like an end for his suffering.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Someone was saying that if you think of that movie as a collection of music vids it works OK. I guess. Even so, the sequence where he becomes a Transformer and rids the world of drug dealers is troubling in its Messianic pretentiousness. I think what really did for him was he never learned to laugh at himself.