So that's what it takes for MTV to start playing music videos again

Jun 25, 2009 20:31

I don't really have a response to Michael Jackson's death, but I will say that I don't look forward to how the mainstream media will focus on the scandals more than the art & entertainment he produced during his lifetime.  Seriously, if you don't know, you need to know.  This man has inspired people all over the world in numbers too high for me to fathom.  He was like a one-man Beatle, for those of you who need a comparison.  His influence was that profound.

At the moment, all I can say is RIP Michael Jackson and leave you with some of the tweeted reactions of ?uestlove, who I think is saying it better than I can right now. (Adam Shankman can kiss my a$$! You overrated hack SOB.)

gone. too. soon.
about 3 hours ago from web

come on mike....fucking FIGHT!!!!!!!!!
about 2 hours ago from web

@KhloeKardashian we cant believe tmz.... ESPECIALLY you. until cnn says it.....
about 2 hours ago from web in reply to KhloeKardashian

i know we make light of me never getting sleep and overworking. but i'll say that he didn't go in vein. i will do my best to slow down as to
about 2 hours ago from web

not overwork myself to the point in which i can't even enjoy life anymore. im am devastated over this but we all have memories. i just hope
about 2 hours ago from web

that he will get due justice in all the press memorials and whatnot. i know he was mired in controversy the last decade of his life
about 2 hours ago from web

but i think its time we let him rest in peace and learn to separate the ART and the ARTIST. --that is the MJ i will forever remember.
about 2 hours ago from web

elvis got revisionist media treatment. i expect the friggin same for my hero. lemme find out yall gonna paint this mofo as a freak cnn.
30 minutes ago from web

im emotional now but i dont want the only american news source i watch talking about the controversial period.
28 minutes ago from web

aint never heard a peep about elvis as a 24 yr old dating a 14 yr old priscilla, or his drug problems or anything but him being a treasure.
19 minutes ago from web

wait...why is jeff goldblum in the top 10? did i miss something?!?!
1 minute ago from web
Now, the Jeff Goldblum death hoax can suck it!  Not funny.  At.  All.  (And I'm not saying that just as a fan. Celebrity death memes are childish and moronic.  Get a fricking life.)

And although I knew about Elvis dating Priscilla when she was underage and her desperately trying to look older with makeup to help abate the scandal, I agree with Ahmir that society-at large seems to forget that little detail about his legacy.  That, and the fact that he died in a drug-induced haze next to a toilet in his bathroom.  So color me surprised when jokers where saying that Elvis was "rolling over in his grave" when MJ married Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie.  SMH

in memoriam, special event

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