GONE TOO SOON:

[michaelbush]

So, Michael Jackson. I've avoided posting here over the last couple of days, because I wanted to avoid posting something awful and trite about someone who - given that pop is my lifeblood - I had a huge amount of respect for. Thoroughly disappointed in the amount of people - not here, but elsewhere, particularly on Facebook - falling over

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[myfirstkitchen]

I guess the thing for me is that Michael Jackson died for me nearly 20 years ago (Dangerous was the last album I liked, and then he became tabloid mental and made patchy to shit records). I can't stand all the eulogising (of anyone, if a close friend was famous and died I would hate it, too) and...Diana stuff. I can't cope with wall to wall telly and papers about one subject. The original Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough demo still slays me. Plus we had this really sappy tape in my mum's car when I was about 6 or 7 called Love Songs that was terrible really but I remember pretty fondly: http://www.discogs.com/Michael-Jackson-and-Diana-Ross-Love-Songs/release/773462

Mostly I love Off The Wall and Thriller and could happily bin most of the rest, but it's the JFK dribble I don't want to hear, that makes me not care, not the songs. Massive cultural moment blah.