Aside from the hasty copy and paste job on Friday, I haven’t really had a chance to chime in with my two cents on Michael Jackson’s passing so I’ll do that now.<\/p>\n
Personally<\/em> I was very sad to hear of his death.\u00a0 I wasn’t a lifelong fan but its the association he had with my childhood that made it so sad to hear.\u00a0 Also, I was definitely in the camp that believed the child-molestion charges were rather obviously bullshit money-grabbing exercises from some of the parents of the Neverland visitors.<\/p>\n I’m curious what will happen to Blanket.<\/p>\n \n Michael Jackson: Considerate of elephants<\/p><\/div>\n His Music<\/em> When discussing it with some colleagues at work, a friend of mine observed that this is probably due to the level of exposures contemporary stars have with their audience, whether it is through Youtube clips, Twitter or Myspace.\u00a0 When he first became popular in the Seventies, it also pre-dated Walkmans, VCRs and MTV.\u00a0 Many of his younger fan base couldn’t necessarily even afford an outlet to listen or watch Jackson perform on demand.<\/p>\n In this environment, my friend reasoned, seeing the guy live was such a monumental event that probably caused you to stop pumping blood to your brain and thus, you’d pass out from excitement.<\/p>\n Its an after-effect of doing a media studies course at university that I find this so very interesting.<\/p>\n
\nI was a big Michael Jackson fan as a kid.\u00a0 The first CD I ever bought was Dangerous<\/em> and, like Sam, I found that when I revisited it years later, its not nearly as good as Bad<\/em> or Thriller<\/em>.\u00a0 Having said that, I can remember how much I loved that album as a kid and I think the younger you are the greater appreciation you’ll have for the saccharine overload and shameless optimism that is Heal The World<\/em>.\u00a0 Bonus points if you watch it with the Superbowl video at the same time.<\/p>\n![\"Michael](\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/michaeljackson.jpg\")
\nLike a lot of other people, his death lead to a weekend of revisiting some old favourites on iTunes and YouTube.\u00a0 One observation I had when watching the videos was that Michael Jackson seemed to be the last of the music giants that had such an effect on his fans that many of them would actually pass out at the sight of him.\u00a0 Its a phenomenon also commonly associated with The Beatles and Elvis but I can’t really think of an contemporary artists that have this effect.<\/p>\n