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I don't have the time it takes to recover from the day
I sit and moan and mope and groan and never have my say
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Unconfirmed. Steady on. -
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It will be confirmed soon enough.
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They're not confirming it for privacy reasons.I don't have the time it takes to recover from the day
I sit and moan and mope and groan and never have my say
A crown of thorns from which is born a little baby bird
To fly away and have its day is nothing but absurdComment
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Privacy reasons!?
If he had died, they would get a hell of a lot more privacy if they just announced it; the reporters would leave sooner.Comment
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Yeah, I dont think he's dead yet feeling.... dont jump the gun....Im sure he will die, but i think hes in a coma right now....They will probably try to keep him alive for a while.
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no wait, youre right, he's dead : (Comment
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Ummm, if he was in cardiac arrest when he arrived, he's brain-dead (unless he was nearly frozen), which I would consider dead, whether they're pumping blood through him or not.Originally posted by Donnie Darko View Post
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We got crossed up there.Originally posted by Donnie Darko View PostI don't have the time it takes to recover from the day
I sit and moan and mope and groan and never have my say
A crown of thorns from which is born a little baby bird
To fly away and have its day is nothing but absurdComment
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Re: Michael Jackson just died
Originally posted by AnewKINDofFEELING View PostIt will be confirmed soon enough.
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They're not confirming it for privacy reasons.
Top story (of course)...it's confirmed.Comment
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Ed McMahon, then Farrah Fawcett, now MJ. All in a week.
Crazy.Comment
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Not -completely- surprisingComment
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That... sucks. MJ is the sole reason I took an interest in music. I remember as a kid wearing all my Jackson cassettes into playless states and having to rebuy them again and again. The man was a musical genius, the man IS a music genius, and will forever be in my books. I'm so glad he's left us so many great songs and, with them, a ton of fond memories.
Gone, but not forgotten. :'((╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻Comment
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RIP, even though he's still a weird weird dude.Comment
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Andrew Sullivan, as usual, says it better than I could:
There are two things to say about him. He was a musical genius; and he was an abused child. By abuse, I do not mean sexual abuse; I mean he was used brutally and callously for money, and clearly imprisoned by a tyrannical father. He had no real childhood and spent much of his later life struggling to get one. He was spiritually and psychologically raped at a very early age - and never recovered. Watching him change his race, his age, and almost his gender, you saw a tortured soul seeking what the rest of us take for granted: a normal life.
But he had no compass to find one; no real friends to support and advise him; and money and fame imprisoned him in the delusions of narcissism and self-indulgence. Of course, he bears responsibility for his bizarre life. But the damage done to him by his own family and then by all those motivated more by money and power than by faith and love was irreparable in the end. He died a while ago. He remained for so long a walking human shell.
I loved his music. His young voice was almost a miracle, his poise in retrospect eery, his joy, tempered by pain, often unbearably uplifting. He made the greatest music video of all time; and he made some of the greatest records of all time. He was everything our culture worships; and yet he was obviously desperately unhappy, tortured, afraid and alone.
I grieve for him; but I also grieve for the culture that created and destroyed him. That culture is ours' and it is a lethal and brutal one: with fame and celebrity as its core values, with money as its sole motive, it chewed this child up and spat him out.
I hope he has the peace now he never had in his life. And I pray that such genius will not be so abused again.Originally posted by GnomadOriginally posted by auto-de-feComment
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I guess its true that it really does happen in threes. For me its weird, as I was never a big fan of Michael's music (for the most part). But what's undeniable is the effect that Michael has had on the music industry, and how many artists/performers he has influenced.Originally posted by cyanskies View Post
RIP
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