Comments | throwdownartist: Long Live The King

throwdownartist

Long Live The King

Jun 25, 2009 22:40

Michael Jackson. Damn. Michael Jackson.

It was easy to forget as he descended into self-parody over the last fifteen years or so, but for a good, solid 15 years, he was the coolest man on the planet. Dude was a hitmaker from back in 1969, and that Jackson 5 material still sounds fresh and vibrant, over three decades later. And, to be fair, it ( Read more... )

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manley1 June 26 2009, 04:38:23 UTC

The King of Pop is dead. Long live the King of Pop. I don't think we'll ever see another like him.

Amen.

kimmercake June 26 2009, 12:48:21 UTC

I agree, well put.

revelry13 June 26 2009, 13:31:40 UTC

But I won't remember him for the plastic surgery; I won't remember him for dangling his kid off of a balcony. I won't remember him for the circus of a molestation trial, and I won't remember him for the surgical masks.

I'll remember the greatest music videos ever:

Exactly.

throwdownartist June 26 2009, 13:41:40 UTC

The Globe story compared the two types of MJ fans: the ones who stood every day outside the courthouse at his trial, insisting he was perfect in everything, and the ones who have this sort of time capsule of him that ends right about when Dangerous came out. I liked that distinction a lot.

revelry13 June 26 2009, 13:56:58 UTC

NICE. That's precisely it. It's just weird to me to realize that we were able to follow this guy as he changed the nature of performance - now we'll have to describe what it was like when other people just watch footage of it and take that performance style for granted.

kev_bot June 26 2009, 22:30:45 UTC

Agreed. I remember being as wowed by his latter-era videos "Scream" and "Black or White" as much as by "Thriller." Such great stuff.

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