Rest in Peace Michael Jackson

[TheChosen]

Although there were multiple reports that he's only in coma, it now seems that King of Pop has passed away, in age of 50, in what seems to be cardiac arrest.

R.I.P. And thanks for the beats.

[Acethor]

Today is a sad day for the world. We have just lost the greatest pop icon that we have ever seen, or will ever see. You gave us more than we could ever repay. :byesad: Indeed, Rest in Peace MJ.:hypocrite: Let us all pay our respects and light a candle for him, and may he live on forever in our memories. :crybaby:

[red_avatar]

My best friend was a huge Michael Jackson fan back in the 80's while I was more of a Queen fan. It's ironic how, with the years, I became to respect Jackson's music more and more. More and more of his songs ended up on my mp3 player with Billy Jean becoming my favorite track of his.

It is sad to see what happened to what was once the most popular pop singer in the world. It just goes to show fame has its dirty sides - an adult who never got to be a kid and kept reaching back to childhood all his life.

RIP Michael.

[callmechia]

I agree with Ace: MJ was such a force of nature. Just such an unbelievable singer, dancer and performer, the likes of which we will never see again. He taught us all what it REALLY meant to be a pop icon, and he paid a terrible price for having done so. RIP Michael, we will love and remember you forever.
:rocks:

[Fubb]

Oh he reached back to childhood, thats for sure.


Anyways, this is sad, he was a great dancer, and a great singer. hopefully he is only in a coma.

[ianfreddie07]

R.I.P. King of Pop :(

[angry axe]

R.I.P, you will forever touch me in my dreams

[Saccade]

I wondered how he was going to get out of the tour this time.
Never thought he'd go for the old "I'm dead" routine, mind...
"I'm falling to pieces; won't someone put me together" - Faith no More

Billy Jean and Beat it were masterpieces. I love the riffs and basslines and only Michael Jackson could've done the vocals for, well... any of his songs really.
While ever since the whole Jarvis C0ckend thing and the Crucifixion, he's kinda sucked at producing new stuff, I was looking forward to seeing him.
I hope that they have the technology to rebuild him. Maybe he has some stem cells or core cells that they can regrow or clone him.

There's a tv series about him looking at buying a house in the UK - a costal resort. I think it was Plymouth or somewhere. Can'nae remember laddie.

MJ, also known as "Mary Jane" or "Marijuana"; "pot" or "weed" is usually bad for you unless you're:
A) At College
B) A College drop-out
C) Happy to exhange the brain cells and suffer ill mental health to get high
D) Are Towlie from South Park, in which case it makes you remember stuff.

Michael Jackson, however, is not a drug. At least, not one usually found in nature - the new substance is at least 75% artificial and, like most things in life, best viewed in retrospect or nostalgia.

Now he has met his demise, he must truely be great and I must go out and buy all his albums and promotional material. To line the pockets of the tax-cheating, kiddie-fiddling, jesus-juice swigging, Never-bloody-everland Jackson Spawn.
Filth.

I am friends with someone from Adam and the Ants and they say that someone else says that Adam said that Gary Glitter (slang for "up the shitter") had a few problems with being a nonce, too. Probably still has...

Women beaters and nonces - two kinds of people that I can use the words I and hate before.

May've made some good tunes and inspired generations of musical diversity.
But let's not forget that he dangled a baby out of window, makes his kid wear a bag over their head and tried to make sexual advances on children after plying them with alcohol.

What goes around, comes around harder.
And now the hard part is getting the money back for the tickets - they were £120 to see him at the O2 Arena (formerly known as "Feck up of the Millenium" dome)...

[Icewolf]

Rest in peace.
He had a huge impact in 90's pop music lasting until today and future centuries.
In former days he did legendary music with The Jackson Five.
So I think he deserves a lot of respect nonwithstanding the awkwardness in some parts of his life.
[...]What goes around, comes around harder.
And now the hard part [...]I see music in this... :mhh:
What goes aroud, comes around
and
The hardest part

[Thunderclap]

Im with Saccade. Personally im not a fan of him or his music, still he certainly didn't deserve to die. After someone dies its important to remember the good and the bad, people tend to overlook the misdeeds commited in the name of honouring the dead or some such nonsense. Regardless, its obvious im in the global minority, his music seems to be universally loved, but i digress.

[Kugerfang]

RIP, his impact on modern music cannot be denied. :(

In other news, Farrah Fawcett also died.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/89/Farrah_Fawcett_iconic_pinup_1976.jpg

[dosraider]

His nose will live forever.

[arete]

Weird. When I was a kid we always used to joke that he'd have a Tupperware party instead of a funeral...

Now it just seems mean.

Also, Thriller is the only song of his I ever liked.

[Icewolf]

[...]Also, Thriller is the only song of his I ever liked.When I was a teenager in love I liked "The earth song" :ph34r: :D

Today I like "black or white" for fun, the rest is random to me, but isn't basically "unlikable", in my opinion.

[_r.u.s.s.]

i guess now he's in a happy place with a lot of children in it

[Tulac]

Contrary to the very popular opinion, I don't think he was a pedo. This guy never had a childhood, which means it messed him up as an adult when he tried to "relive" his childhood, therefore building the whole Neverland and inviting all those children and hanging out with them, but really just hanging out and playing (yes you can extract lame double meaning from this). I mean sheeeeeeeit, if I was a pedo I wouldn't be so blatant about it

Of course parents saw a great opportunity in squeezing out money from Michael Jackson from suing him etc.

Also RIP Michael Jackson

[Dave]

RIP Jacko & Farrah.

[Saccade]

What?! Are we lumbered with his ape, now..?

http://www.abandonia.com/en/user/37143

[Pandaaa]

R.I.P, you will forever touch me in my dreams
:hysterical:

I didn't get that at first, Angry Axe!

[El Quia]

I wonder why nobody did post this, yet: :dance:



^_^

[Kugerfang]

<dl><dd class="alt">anyone wonder if he’ll come back from the dead… cause this is THRILLAAHH…
(RIP:MJ)
</dd></dl>reports of jako dying of a heart attack are incorrect . . .he was found in the childrens ward having a stroke

[arete]

Yeah, everyone has so much respect for the dead...

[riccso]

I wonder why nobody did post this, yet
orly?
http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/2163/i11729687038443711.gif (http://img23.imageshack.us/i/i11729687038443711.gif/)
Rest in Peace!

[Japo]

Eager fans spent more than $90 million on tickets despite widespread doubts about the pop icon's stamina.

Now the star is dead — and one of the city's biggest arenas has 50 open nights. London, the city that was to be Jackson's launch pad back to glory, has become a symbol of the wreckage of his life.

The calamity has left Los Angeles-based tour promoters AEG Live, which operates the 02 Arena where Jackson was to have performed, with a colossal problem. In addition to the money taken in by ticket sales, which must be refunded, the company had already paid Jackson millions and spent millions more getting ready for the planned July 13 premiere.

There is no question it's a disaster, said Chris Cooke, editor of the British music business bulletin CMU Daily. But no one knows the magnitude of the catastrophe.http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090626/ap_on_re_eu/eu_michael_jackson_this_is_it

[Paco]

Moonwalker i liked it.

RIP Jacko

[Lulu_Jane]

I met him in an elevator in Sydney once, and he smelled funny. True story.


Sad, he was young.

[TotalAnarchy]

At least now he can perform the real, original ZombieDance...

[BranjoHello]

The man has couple good songs, R.I.P.

[Tulac]

I met him in an elevator in Sydney once, and he smelled funny. True story.


No no, that was me.

[Kugerfang]

Should I DL an MJ compilation torrent?

[Nick]

When such people like MJ die, it reminds me, that we all mortals and death will come to everybody regardless of his race, social class, religious belief e.t.c.

Sad. He was great singer.

[red_avatar]

Creepy: yesterday I was cleaning out some forum posts (we're having a spring/summer clean) and came across a topic called "Michael Jackson died" and inside the topic was "he died from a heart attack". For a moment I thought it was a topic made just a few days ago but it was made two years ago, back in 2007. The post was a joke, of course (albeit a very poor one), but it was quite surprising to find that post right now, two years later, just after he did die from a heart attack.

[Nick]

Yeah, the same thing was in the internets. There were ads like "Michael Jackson is dying". It started about year or two ago. Maybe they knew something?...

[El Quia]

I remember that a friend I had in the nineties was sure thar MJ died after thriller and that the sudden appearance change was because they payed a guy to impersonate him (with added weirdness) because MJ was too much of a good business to let him die O_o

Yeah, my friend was weird

[chainsoar]

May've made some good tunes and inspired generations of musical diversity.
But let's not forget that he dangled a baby out of window, makes his kid wear a bag over their head and tried to make sexual advances on children after plying them with alcohol.



I missed the bit where any concrete evidence of that was provided. I fail to see how a man who thought he was a child would even consider alcohol as something that was accessible to him.

[red_avatar]

Plus, Michael didn't drink alcohol according to several people - he converted to Islam after all. Those accounts just prove to me it was a load of bullshit.

[virumor]

Plus, Michael didn't drink alcohol according to several people - he converted to Islam after all. Those accounts just prove to me it was a load of bullshit.
Converted to Islam?! That's the first time I hear this. Are you sure you aren't confusing with Cassius Clay? :weird:

[red_avatar]

Converted to Islam?! That's the first time I hear this. Are you sure you aren't confusing with Cassius Clay? :weird:
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17555/michael-jackson-islam

Seriously there's tons of topics on this.

[Kugerfang]

Even if you're a Muslim, no one's stopping you from drinking.

[red_avatar]

Even if you're a Muslim, no one's stopping you from drinking.
Ah but most don't drink regardless and it's said to be offensive to drink in the company of a muslim (unless they're really just muslim by name of course).

[ZD Indyroo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVACUjHn6yU

Puts forward some good points.

[red_avatar]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVACUjHn6yU

Puts forward some good points.
While this may be true for a lot of people, it's not for me. I've defended him 4 years ago as well - I'm not even a fan of his, but I still believe that people are innocent until proven guilty.

What annoys me about the whole "MJ is a freak" attitude, is the hypocrisy in today's society. If people know a child is getting beaten by his father, they go "poor child, what will become of him" but once that poor child is grown up and is clearly having psychological issues due to those beatings, people are not going "Oh poor man, he was beaten a lot as a child", oh no. They go "Jesus, what a freak" and point their finger and laugh.

So when I saw MJ, I didn't see a freak, I saw a man who didn't have a childhood and had been pushed and pressured into the showbusiness since he was a small boy with beatings and belt lashings to spur him on. I honestly don't know if MJ ever did anything some people claimed he did but he was the product of his father's obsession and of society on the whole and as such, I never felt it was really his fault. Neverland was a mirror to his lost childhood, trying to recapture that which he never had. He surrounded himself with children so he could feel like a child.

In the end, I think Michael never had a normal life - when he achieved fame, he didn't know what to do with it. After all, his whole life had been about reaching the top and once there, he was lost. But despite all that, he did a lot of good - he was generous to charities and his charity work on the whole is to be commended. And for that I think he deserves respect in death.

EDIT: Oh, and you got to respect his love for his fans. Even when he was feeling completely down and had the whole world against him, he still made time to cheer his fans up (just look on Youtube for the vid where he comes out of the courtroom and jumps on the roof of his car). I think he cared a lot about people were thinking - heck, it may well have caused his death from what I've been reading. Still wanting to do too much and the stress taking its toll.

[Kugerfang]

http://www.vulomedia.com/images/61698songchartmemesmichaeljackson.jpg

[CrybKeeper]

I'll agree with Red_Avatar- innocent until proven guilty. besides, after hearing the attorney who interviewed over 100 children who stayed with Michael, none of them could verify any alcohol, or any abuse.

Only the two families, that simply used the experience to gain money from Michael.

The boy who said Michael gave him "jesus juice", once he was older, recanted his statement and said he was coerced into saying it.

Think I'll believe the 100 children over the two dishonest ones.

@Kugerfang: Nice graph and most likely fairly close to accurate.

[Kugerfang]

Ummm..... Jesus Juice? Seriously?