mj - one more observation...

[qthewetsprocket]

i'm noticing an interesting division on my f'list as regards the reaction posts to michael jackson's death. some are focusing only on the positive aspects of his life: his talent, his music, his charity work. a number of others, though, are focusing only on the negative: the scandal, the self-mutilation, the financial excesses...as though reminding

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[syzygy_lj]

I'm old enough to have owned Thriller on vinyl-- I was probably about 10 at the time. I must have listened to that album a bazillion times

[thisiszircon]

What has surprised me is how utterly indifferent I am to the event.

Which is weird. Not because I was a fan of Jackson's; I wasn't. But because the media-fuelled celebrity culture we live in fascinates me. So this ought to be one of those major events that I'm soaking up and watching with interest. And it really just...isn't.

I had to turn the news off tonight because I got so pissed off by the wall-to-wall moonwalking and groin-grabbing.

Last time I felt so exasperated by media coverage of a celebrity death was when Princess Diana died. (I wasn't a fan of hers either.)

I am capable of emotion when public figures die. For instance, I was in pieces over Cobain for a while. And Layne Staley. Oh, and Jeremy Brett -- that one messed me up. So I'd like to think I'm not a completely cold bitch-from-hell.

But my indifference at the death of Michael Jackson (something which I fear says horribly negative things about me as a fellow human being) seems only matched by my irritation at the lack of indifference shown by the Rest of

[qthewetsprocket]

i think it'll start to be less irritating once they have some actual news for us instead of playing the same old archive clips ad infinitum. i hope so, anyway...though, since we just got told the toxicology report could take another six weeks, i'm not holding my breath. :/

[thisiszircon]

Good point. And a lot more pleasant to consider than: "Zircon can only feel grief/compassion/caring for public figures whose work she enjoys -- she is that selfish"...