Comments on: Last Word on M.J.

By: chris

chris — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:45:27 +0000

nina, with this blog, it just suffices to say…

and THIS is WHY we all love you so much!

very well said!

HUGS!
Chris

By: rogue

rogue — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:12:55 +0000

thanks chrissa!!!

By: ravnostic

ravnostic — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:58:04 +0000

I think I’m a bit late to the party, but I’ll echo Donny’s sentiments. Elvis’s death was the first time I ever saw my father cry (I was maybe 10 at the time.) ‘Celebrity’ does have an impact. People remember events in their lives based on the songs that played at the time. And surely some of those times included MJ’s body of work.

Also, we have Sony, I beleive it was, for getting MJ on MTV. They threatened to pull their whole catalog from them if they wouldn’t play the music. Good for them! Because regardless of MJ’s odd behaviors (and I don’t claim to know the answers about those), he was one hell of a talent.

Soon, pieces of toast bearing MJ’s likeness will be selling on eBay. Mark my breakfast, it will happen. And they thought MJ was strange…

By: Leah

Leah — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:15:21 +0000

Thanks for making me consider things from someone else’s standpoint. I wasn’t aware that there were no black artists on MTV before Michael Jackson as 1. MTV was only shown on satellite tv and 2. We were too frigging poor to have satellite tv.

I have been sickened by some of the things I’ve seen written about MJ since his death. Did no one bring these people up right?! My mum taught me not to speak ill of the dead. It seemed people believed what they wanted to believe about those Jordan Chandler allegations, and I said that if I had a child and someone had molested him or her I’d sooner die than take money off their alleged attacker. I smell a rat there, and I hope that family mans up and comes out with the truth now, but would they EVER admit to being money-grabbing arseholes? Unlikely.

By: Alegra

Alegra — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:22:34 +0000

What I said to Kemari the other day is this: my gut instinct around MJ was that he was one of those artists that just wasn’t made to live in the world and all of its ugliness without going off into la-la land. I think for some people to contain that amount of creativity and talent, there has to be a ‘give’ somewhere else. There are very few artists that have existed in the arena that MJ did without being eccentric or self-destructive in some way. To add to the mix the amount of his life that was lived in media scrutiny and the energy of the adoration of masses that surrounded him in one way or another every moment of his days – I think it is wrong to say ‘Well, if it was me, I would have gotten help” and assume that this ‘help’ would result in him looking the way we wanted him to. Some artists are able to walk that fine line, others, like MJ, had too much going on in one body – like a conduit with too much friggin’ electricity running through it.

Personally, I never thought of him as a pedophile, I thought of him as a Peter Pan and there is a part of me that totally understands ‘not wanting to grow up’ and deal with the world as it is. There is a lot of beauty but there is a lot of ugly to match stride with the pretty.

My opinion is not based on intensive scrutiny of MJ’s life, the media reports, etc. just my gut reaction over the years to watching him.

By: chynachicka

chynachicka — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:25:18 +0000

I agree with you when you say that your integrity can’t be bought, but your also not a famous musician with a career at stake. So, honestly you can’t say what you would’ve done in that situation. I do believe that most times celebrities have publicists and image consultants who make decisions for them on how to handle high profile situations for them. I’m confident in saying that it wasn’t his idea to just settle and have a dark cloud looming over him with people wondering if he truly is a pedophile.

By: chynachicka

chynachicka — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:07:40 +0000

I recently read an article (dont know how credible it was)on the boy (I think his name is Jordan) where he recants his whole story of Michael ever molesting him. He says in it that it was his fathers way of escaping being poor because he knew they would get the money. He said he always wanted to go public with the information and apologize to the him for what happened but his father wouldn’t let him for fear they would have to repay the money. He also says in the article he was only going public now because he felt guilty with Michael’s passing.

By: Addie

Addie — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:54:48 +0000

You make an excellent point about accepting money from a man who molested your child. You just changed my mind, literally, and that is an incredibly difficult thing to do.

By: Angela

Angela — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:55:21 +0000

My thing with this whole circus surrounding his death is that all those people who talked shit about him while he was alive all flipflopped REAL quick. Those same people are saying how MJ was amazing, MJ was this, MJ was that…that pisses me off! The way I see it, if you feel a certain way about someone (especially due to the severity of some of those allegations) why would you just so quickly feel the exact opposite? If he was shit in life his memory is now shit. If he was great in life his memory is now still great. Its that simple. I just find it disgusting that so many people just can’t have the balls to say they didn’t like him before his death and death hasn’t changed that.

By: Nina

Nina — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:05:43 +0000

I think the balcony thing was more stupid than crazy. I think it was one of those things where you do something w/o thinking it through and you’re just lucky you didn’t pay the ultimate price. I remember when Donny went to Michigan for his grandmother’s funeral. I let Kali ride in the front seat when we went to Blockbuster. She was about 7 or 8. It wasn’t until later did I think about the consequences of my actions. Even a fender bender could have the deployed the air bag and snapped her neck. I was just talking to someone the other day about the balcony thing and he admitted to sometimes getting the urge to put his 2 yr old on the riding lawn mower w/ him. Or what about the parents that forget their babies in the car?

People make stupid, split-second, decisions all the time that don’t make them crazy.

I think what he was lacking, unfortunately, was people who weren’t afraid to lay some reality on him. Someone to be like, “Um, you a grown-ass man. Get those babies out of your bed!” And who knows, maybe he did, but when you think you’re right and have nothing to hide…

I just think for as many plausible and compelling explanations that could point to his guilt, there are just as many to point to his innocence.