Michael Jackson Passes Away

[Psycho Penguin]

Since I live close to LA, the news coverage about this has been non stop.

For real. Coverage of MJ's death in the LA media is only dwarfed by three things in my lifetime: 9/11, the 1992 LA Riots and the 1994 Northridge earthquake. I'm in awe of the media circus at UCLA right now.

OJ Simpson?

 

[vivisectvi]

R.I.P Michael Jordan. You were the greatest minor league baseball player of all time.

 

[BruiserBrody]

R.I.P Michael Jordan. You were the greatest minor league baseball player of all time.

Milky beat you to this

 

[bigolsmitty]

 

[Migoli]

I'm fairly sure Purple Rain was Prince.

Yeah i was just making referance to my earlier post that Prince wins, to quote Chris Rock.

 

[BruiserBrody]

*** 1/2

 

[vivisectvi]

R.I.P Michael Jordan. You were the greatest minor league baseball player of all time.

Milky beat you to this

Damn, I knew I should've read the entire thread first. Ah well.

Edit: Wait, where?

 

[DCH]

It is indeed a very sad day when MJ passes away. RIP Michael Jackson, King of Pop.

 

[BruiserBrody]

R.I.P Michael Jordan. You were the greatest minor league baseball player of all time.

Milky beat you to this

Damn, I knew I should've read the entire thread first. Ah well.

Edit: Wait, where?

facebook

 

[RedJed]

So MTV had some of the weirdest random shit on Jacko tonight, lots of celebs and artists calling in stoned or drunk talking about him, we got coverage of what everyone is Tweeting about him (WTF?) and then we get the random videos from the past, etc. The funniest interview was with Fat Joe who claimed it was "probably the third most saddest day of my life, yo." But they played some really obscure stuff on and off during the night for videos. Some fucking goofy ass video for Liberian Girl, I tell ya. Never had seen it before, never really need to see it again either but if it aint fucking strange, it sure was still surreal as hell now watching it, with everyone looking for him and shit.

Michael Jackson Liberian Girl

That would be all kinds of fucked up if he actually OD'd.

And on the subject of the idea that he wasn't a cho-mo just because he was acquitted twice, then it's certainly curious he apparently went broke from publicly admitting he paid off families of children en masse that were accusing him of the same shit.

 

[BruiserBrody]

 

[CBright7831]

Batman's having a busy week.

Shit...if nobody is going to do it...I will.

Shitty photoshop or not:

 

[Tawren]

I really don't understand the losers who are actually sad about this

I mean really the dude sang good, but he was also a child molester

And you've never met him. lame

 

[KOAB]

I need a youtube tribute of one of his songs set to Benoit wrestling...

 

[OG]

RIP to one of the greatest musical artists ever. This generation's Elvis Presley.

 

[bps21]

Which generation? The last time he had a #1 hit had to be like 15 years ago. And his biggest era happened when I was...4 or 5? And I'm gonna be 30 in two months.

 

[MFer]

I really don't understand the losers who are actually sad about this

I mean really the dude sang good, but he was also a child molester

And you've never met him. lame

That's a hell of lot of losers then...I do have to admit that he got a free pass from most everyone though, at least it always seemed that way to me.

But anyways, as great as his Jackson 5/Thriller/Bad work was, I actually remembered his early 90's work most fondly with the Dangerous album and other songs, probably because I grew up on that being born in '87. I liked some of his later stuff too even though it didn't sell nearly as well.

 

[Smues]

True story, when I was a kid I honestly couldn't figure out what gender Jackson was from seeing the music videos on MTV. Yeah I know I was a stupid kid. So I had to ask my dad. It was also a long time before I realized he was black.

 

[bps21]

He was black?

...

Well who cares about this then?

 

[Red Baron]

Apparently over 8,000 people on facebook like that MJ died today.

 

[OG]

Which generation? The last time he had a #1 hit had to be like 15 years ago. And his biggest era happened when I was...4 or 5? And I'm gonna be 30 in two months.

Anyone who was around to hear any of his major hits (probably up to Scream in 1995). Anyone who grew with the ridiculous media coverage (both positive and negative) about him. Basically anyone who grew up with pop culture from 1982-on was part of his generation.

 

[bps21]

I don't

Which generation? The last time he had a #1 hit had to be like 15 years ago. And his biggest era happened when I was...4 or 5? And I'm gonna be 30 in two months.

Anyone who was around to hear any of his major hits (probably up to Scream in 1995). Anyone who grew with the ridiculous media coverage (both positive and negative) about him. Basically anyone who grew up with pop culture from 1982-on was part of his generation.

I don't feel even slightly connected to his era. To me he was the guy who got creepier looking and had some weird court settlements. When you really think about it...you probably start to get into music at around, I don't know...6 or 7 maybe? Which would mean that there are people who can legally drink who would have been about that old when Scream came out. The guy wasn't musically relevent for a long time now.

 

[luke-o]

Sad news. Made even worse by the fact I paid 8 quid to watch the shitty Transformers film. And then lost the car park ticket so had to pay a 20 quid fine.

What a shit night.

 

[Matt Young]

Since I live close to LA, the news coverage about this has been non stop.

For real. Coverage of MJ's death in the LA media is only dwarfed by three things in my lifetime: 9/11, the 1992 LA Riots and the 1994 Northridge earthquake. I'm in awe of the media circus at UCLA right now.

I wasn't around here for those things, but yes, it is crazy.

 

[Obi Chris Kenobi]

Matt, that makes you sound like you've decended from Space to observe us within the last 3 years... are you Keanu Reeves?

 

[CBright7831]

Someone took a screen cap of his website before Sony had a chance to update it earlier today:

 

[Obi Chris Kenobi]

With all respect, I think updating the splash on his website was one of the last things on people's minds.

 

[Sabre]

Is it wrong that i really dont give a damn? It felt like he was dead for years before the O2 gig announcement.

 

[Obi Chris Kenobi]

Nah, I know where you're coming from sabre, its not as if he's had much positive press or music contributions since the early-mid 90s. For the last 15 years he's been tarred as a potential demented child molester... allegedly. Now he's died, all that seems to be glazed over during the press coverage.

 

[Sabre]

Jade Goody booking 101.