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.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I remember taking you to see Moonwalker. What a strange movie! It was as if artistic control had been handed over to an 8 year old.

I think it was obvious even then that there was something a bit screwy going on. I mean, who allows an 8 year old to run riot though a movie studio?

Celebrity hollows people out. It got to work on Jackson when he was just a kid. He didn't really stand a chance. Thus far I'm sorry for him.

But then, well... he became a bad man and did bad things- and I hate to see him being spoken of as if he were some sort of secular saint. I feel the need to protest.

Yes, there are things to be said on both sides. I'm sure this debate is going to run and run....

Love, Dad XXX

[alice-g.livejournal.com]

I knew even when I was 8 that he wasn't right. The surgery, the skin whitening, the chimpanzee!! Probably you told me too! He was, however, intriguing. Although not so much today. J read all the papers but I couldn't. I don't care enough, it's too depressing and hideously dark. I just see him as a desperate character, malformed and ruined. None of it seems real.

Love ya xx

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Some of it was just PR- the chimpanzee for instance; That was pretty much just a stunt. Jackson' people wanted us to believe he was crazy in a childlike, attractive sort of a way. But other things- the bleaching, the endless surgery, the dodgy phone calls to boys, the weird way he treated his own kids- they were real.

I wish it would go away, but I'm afraid it's is going to dominate the media for weeks.

Love,

Dad XXX