RIP Michael Jackson :(
Oh man- when I heard the news yesterday afternoon I was SHOCKED. I won’t lie I almost didn’t feel like celebrating. I did my best but after dinner I just wanted to watch the news. I cried last night- I remember being a little girl and one of the first albums I bought was MJ’s. AND it was on tape! I used to tease my sister because the Thriller video scared her lol. I used to listen to his albums OVER AND OVER and even today my workout playlist has a few MJ songs on it! From time to time I’d pull out my HISTORY album and listen to it. This morning on the way to work I was also teary eyed listening to the radio- I just can’t believe it- the KING of Pop is dead. Now I understand how Elvis’s fans felt when he passed away. 
I feel so sorry for his family, specially his mother and children. I know how close he was to his mother, how much he loved her and thought the world of her. And for any man his children are the most precious things in his life. I have to wonder as he lay there dying what was he thinking? I bet the only thing he could think of was he was leaving his children and I bet he prayed they’d be taken care of. I always think when someone dies the person who suffers the most is the mother, she carried that child in her body for 9 months, watched him grow, cared for him and loved him all his life, and now she has to bury him. No parent should ever have to complete that cycle
He was an inspiration to so many people, from dancers, to singers, to song writers, to abused children, and everyone else. You might say “oh MJ didn’t effect my life in any way” but if you listen to music you are wrong. His influence on music was so widespread, from country to rap to hip hop to R&B and so on. If you listen to Usher, Britney Spears, Madonna, Sheryl Crow, etc, then Michael Jackson influenced your life. Man in the Mirror was such an epic song to me personally, it made me look at myself and ask what am I going to do to change the world? What can I give to the world? I’m sure many people asked themselves this when hearing this song…
RIP Michael, you are now in heaven doing the moon walk for the angels. I pray that your family finds solace and that your children are taken care of.
I will post Monday about the rest of the week along with a weigh in.
I’m a MJ fan, but really my first reaction was that maybe he can be in peace. I think the last couple of years the media has just been so cruel to him, and now they are acting like they’ve been in love with him for the last 20 years. With the child molestation charges, they were making his life into a circus. I refuse to watch any of the coverage. It’s just too sad and well, hypocritical of the media to be making him into a legend now, after he is dead, when three years ago they were basically calling him a pedophile. They ruined his life. I don’t think any one could contribute to the entertainment world like he did and he deserves better treatment.