Comments on: Michael Jackson Dead at 50; World Mourns

By: Melatonin~side~effects

Melatonin~side~effects — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:29:39 +0000

there would be no other King of Pop like Michael Jackson. he would always be the King.

By: acne.care.jenny

acne.care.jenny — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:06:01 +0000

michael jackson is a very very talented person to the point that he rose as a pop icon. he would live forever in our history books and memories…

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By: Carlo

Carlo — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:22:13 +0000

My earliest memories was from the early 80s, when I was probably about 7. I would play, stop, rewind, play on the cassette player, and write down the lyrics so I could sing along. I had a big poster of him in his red leather jacket. To this day I can’t help but start to dance when I hear the first few beats of Billy Jean or any of his older stuff.

He was a bizarre character, stranger than life, and for me it’s hard to think of him as a real person, but he was. I think the problem, for all the people who say how bad he was, how deranged, strange, etc, they aren’t trying to understand where he was coming from. They are projecting their “normal” life onto him, and it’s quite clear he didn’t lead a normal life. I don’t think he molested children, no way. Slept in the same bed? Sure, he admitted that. Weird/wrong in our eyes? Yes. But he obviously wasn’t a grown man. He was a child too.

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By: Sofia Ali

Sofia Ali — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:18:49 +0000

My parents tell me i started bobbing my head and rocking to his music when propped up, at 4 or 5 months. When i was bout 6 or 7, Dad brought two tapes detailing his life. I still remember scenes of him practising dancing outside of his house, late at night. The first tape i truly ‘possessed’ as a kid was ‘Dangerous’. i played it both sides at least 2 times everyday after school. I still remember being transfixed when i saw him do the moonwalk the first time. The first song i memorised ever was ‘Heal the World’. And then all the other songs on the tape. Over the years i started listening to other stuff, other singers. Then in the latter part of college what was inbred came back. I was kicked out of the library coz without realizing, i’d turned the iPod to full blast when listening to Black or White.

It is only on his passing away i realise what he meant. To my life, my growing up years, to our first visions of what LARGER THAN LIFE means. He meant so much. To our childhood.The first music we enjoyed, relished, started dancing to. None of realised it till now, or that it would hurt like this.

God bless him so much. RIP.

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By: myarthritistreatments78

myarthritistreatments78 — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:13:54 +0000

Michael Jackson is my favorite pop artist ever since i was a child. He is truly the King of Pop and i am saddened by this news.

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By: Hal

Hal — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:40:06 +0000

I also couldn’t help but think that, before Thursday, you wouldn’t have heard is name in anything but the butt of a joke. Really makes you reconsider how and why we ridicule people.

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By: bodydetoxdietgirl

bodydetoxdietgirl — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:30:30 +0000

It is such a great loss that a man with great talent like Michael Jackson dies. RIP King of POP

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By: Benny the Irish Polyglot

Benny the Irish Polyglot — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:29:48 +0000

Thanks for embedding videos viewable outside the states (unlike most sites today…)
I have always been a big fan, but didn’t realize how much his music has been a big part of my life until this morning. Despite the controversy in recent years, I’ll always remember his songs and the memories I have dancing and singing to them in so many places in the world and growing up. I was really sad this morning but I feel better now after sharing the good memories and singing with other fans. He died a legend and will always be remembered as a musical genius, an amazing choreographer and the king of pop

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By: joshywashington

joshywashington — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:58:14 +0000

My first tape was Michael Jackson’s BAD.
For a man so drug through the mud, so tormented and abused, the scope of his musical legacy cannot be measured.

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By: JoAnna

JoAnna — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:37:06 +0000

I have been a Michael Jackson fan my whole life. Having been born in the early 1980s in the King of Pop’s best years, MJ was part of my childhood. There are pictures of my holding the vinyl and listening to the music on headphones when I wasn’t even two.

I was a dancer growing up, and my dance teacher seeded a deep love of both Michael Jackson and Prince in all of her students. Their music inspired dance. We couldn’t help but move. When I was four, I danced to “Beat It,” and it only grew from there. We danced to “Jam” in gold-sequined, one-piece costumes that came with really funky hats; in the seventh grade, our silver-toned braces clashing with the gold in the bright lights. There was “Billy Jean” in one-piece costumes – black velour pants and an unbreathable long sleeve white shirt. “Thriller” in two-piece black costumes with a full zombie scene at the end in torn up flannel shirts and stage smoke; this was the year when a final jazz closed the recital instead of a tap dance because we’d all ruined our make-up and hair to become zombies. This dance still lives on as one of the very best ever put on in the school.

I could go on, but suffice to say my Michael Jackson memories revolve around being with a group of girls growing up, trying to understand the music and the beat so that we could put on a killer show at the end of the year and do some justice to the King of Pop. When Prince passes away, I will have a similar and equally difficult time getting over it. I hope that, in his memory, the dance school I grew up with will put on the biggest and best Michael Jackson tribute for next year’s show.

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