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

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

Well, Tony, I think I made my feelings perfectly clear about MJ's demise and the publicity appertaining thereto. Ditto Elvis, Judy, Marilyn, and other such persons. I can enjoy some of their work, but certainly find none of them candidates for sainthood. In my opinion, Michael Jackson is hardly ideal icon material, and all this brouhaha makes me physically ill.
I also have other persons on my "anti-icon" list, among them former President Ronald Reagan, and there are still others. You get the idea.
I have not been watching TV at all since my neighbor Frankie told me that Jackson had died. I knew what was coming and did not wish to waste my time with it. Instead I have been enjoying DVD movies - old movies at that. I am also reading a couple of books, nothing deep, just for enjoyment.
I am surprised that there has been so much comment on LJ about MJ. For now I am mostly skimming over it, and maybe someday I will go back and read it thoroughly.
You have a friend here - for life, I hope. I find your posts very informative, well written, and most of the time you have something to say to me. I cannot imagine ever unfriending you.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

I thought I was going to catch a lot of flak for this post, but there's been very little negative feedback. I have chosen my friends well :)