The years have gone by, one by one. Ladies and gentleman, the king of pop is dead. At first I thought it was a rumor (who wouldn’t, the man’s only 50) but then I saw it on Fox 5, and then I knew it was true. Finally. All of those days of seeing that person on tabloids at the supermarket and thinking, is that a man or a woman? Oh wait, that’s Michael Jackson. But I personally think it was stupid of him to leave The Jackson 5. They were really in sync. At the pinnacle of his career, in a Pepsi commercial, Michael Jackson burned his hair in which fireworks erupted, and the sparks caught on to his hair and burned his hair. It is said that Jackson had a combination of two rare skin diseases, Vitiligo and Lupus. Vitiligo is a disorder, which happens when melanin is no longer produced in skin cells. Lupus is an autoimmune disease. But overall, Michael Jackson had plenty of talent. I still think that the Thriller album will still keep that record for a long 8 years, and will still be in the top 5 for best-selling albums 20 years from now. And the king of pop now is definitely Sean Kingston. But he had an autopsy, and now he’s dead. RIP
Shaquille O’Neal is headed to Cleveland, trying to be Lebron’s “Big Sidekick”. But I still think that Lebron is going to New York, sadly.
BRB
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Blurring of All Boundaries
Your post about MJ made me think of other boundaries that he blurred. In addition to blurring the boundaries between male and female, to my mind he also blurred the boundaries between black and white (in various ways, including physically but also musically), and child and adult. A tragedy that he was never able to enjoy a normal childhood and was left seeking his lost childhood for the rest of his years. Also a tragedy that he could never appreciate his God-given natural beauty as an African-American and that his father apparently made fun of his nose, to the point where MJ spent years enduring expensive and painful nose jobs. MJ advised in one of his interviews that we listen to his song Childhood from the Free Willy 2 soundtrack to understand his pain.
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