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Michael Jackson Rocking the Online World
June 26, 2009 10:38 AM
There is Michael Jackson’s Facebook page. 940,000 fans and counting.
On Twitter there is MJJNews. Lots of praise pouring in.
There is the official Michael Jackson YouTube Channel. Views for Thriller? 2 million and counting.
Google Trends shows exactly when searches for Jackson spiked.
Apparently Amazon is doing a brisk business on all things Jackson.
I’m surprised Michael Jackson dot com hasn’t crashed. There you’ll find a statement from Sony.
Memorial sites for the King of Pop are sprouting up.
There’s ‘Michael Jackson Remembered’ -- leave a testament.
‘Michael Jackson Memorial’ -- culls together the latest world news and a space for condolences.
On Myspace -- forums are popping up.
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I have his CD, "Michael Jackson Number ONES". I have been playing it in honor to the "THE KING OF POP".....THE GREATEST ENTERTAINER OF ALL TIME....THE KING OF MUSIC!!!!!!!
Through his music he will live forever!!!
It is said that through music it will heal your spirt and soul!!!!
I WILL CELEBRATE "THE KING OF POP", MICHAEL JACKSON'S LIFE BY PLAYING HIS MUSIC!!!!!
#1 NO DOUBT!!!!!
Posted by: sisterdearest09 | Jun 26, 2009 11:38:15 AM
LOVE U, MICHAEL JACKSON, "THE KING OF POP"!!!
Posted by: sisterdearest09 | Jun 26, 2009 11:39:45 AM
OMG I am 30 yrs old I grew up listening to Micheal! My mom listened even my grandmom and now my 8 yr old daughter cried for this man who has inspired her to sing and dance and she can relate to him cause its in her soul like it was his! I dont care what nobody says he didnt have a child hood and he made up for it and thats all hes ever been guilty of !!!God took Three amazing people in one run He finished up by taken the great as he did years ago with Elvis....... But you know what I turned up my radio As I drove from KY TO TN today traveling me and my daughter threw our hands out the window and yelled "WE LOVE YOU MICHEAL" We will miss you....This one is for you ........as we drove people in these Southern States white, black ,and spanish people alike waved... one older gentle threw his thumb up in approvel Because this man has been in everyone ones home and lifes and his music touches our souls and hearts in different times happy,sad,painful,and Humanity testing!!! My mom said Farrah and Ed probly got to take the hand of Micheal as a child going into the gates of heaven skipping with Farrah saying come on son its time for you to have what youve been lookin for! WE LOVE YOU MICHEALLLL GOD BLESS YOU SOUL!!! AND THANK YOU FOR BEING MY FIRST CRUSH!!!! My Mommas favorite record...My brothers dance instructor lol....and Being my daughters HERO!!! MUAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH OXOXOX
Posted by: Heather H. | Jun 26, 2009 11:53:49 AM
I can't believe micheal jackson died!
Posted by: milla | Jun 26, 2009 1:09:18 PM
"Remember the Time" is the best video with Eddie Murphy and Iman and Magic Johnson...I'm just glad I got to experience him from day one. Nothing from the President??? I dont' get it or am I too impatient?
Posted by: Linda | Jun 26, 2009 2:03:43 PM
Thriller was the first cassette tape I ever purchased. I remember listening to Michael everyday on the bus from school. I remember the night the Thriller video premiered on TV. Those were great times. His music was and is the soundtrack for my life. I am deeply sadden by the world's lost. My prayers go out to his family and children.
Posted by: Real Solution | Jun 26, 2009 2:39:51 PM
One of the great talents of all time, but the personal life was really weird. So long, Jacko!
Posted by: Sluggo | Jun 26, 2009 2:57:25 PM
You, all of you will never understant someyhing: a superstar it`a high risk!!!
Lets get back to Marlyn Monroe and Elvis Presley. Superstars? Yes. What happend to them? Finished theyr lives in innapropiate way for a superstar. Why? because they`re love youan d they do anything for you. But you will never understand this. You love hits but ignore them until its too late.
You have to understant that a superstar need you more than you need him. You force M.Jackson, to come back ... fast, to fast eve for a superman. And he died. He needed you years ago. And yuo ingore him. He was fighting with so called pedofilia and you watch the show. Practicly force the King to backdown... for good. Elvis Presley have that. Monroe have that. you can do something. get m.c. hammer back!!! Still live, you know?
Its a waste to talents like that. Consider a world warning for whats going on here, in this... world.
Posted by: Mihai Jerdan | Jun 26, 2009 4:26:48 PM
His name is Michael Jackson...grow up and get rid of the Jacko crap, that is so disrespectful of someone who just lost their life.
The very first "live" concert I ever attended was The Jackson Five and The Commodores opened for them. I was probably 9 or 10 yrs. old; Michael was probably 12 or 13 but I was totally in love with him then...lol.
Get your rest now Michael from the cares of this world and thank you for the surmountable deposit of love, talent and music you left for us to remember you by. Your legacy will be unmatched for generations to come...what a tragic loss.
Posted by: CinciDarling | Jun 26, 2009 4:27:24 PM
LEGENDS
Legends go first
Unafraid they boldly go where others won’t, others can’t and others don’t
Without their light
The world’s darkness would consume us
Legends go first
One voice, one person, one action …ultimately affecting the lives of millions
Legends go first
Leaving a path for others to follow
Marking footprints in the sand so others may find their way
Legends go first
They become larger than life
From our view looking up they stand as tall as mountains
We see our dreams come to life through them
Legends go first
They push through the barriers they break down the walls
Theirs is a legacy created over time
Legends go first
Letting go is never our choice
They must take their place hand and hand with the others
Legends go first
We must all one day say goodbye to
Legends that have gone first
Leaving their impression on the face of the world
Legends go first
We honor, we salute, we mourn, we cherish
Legends that go first
By Willeena 6/26/09
Posted by: Willeena Booker | Jun 28, 2009 11:19:05 PM
Michael Jackson was a wonderful man, father,son,and friend.
As an entertainer he was electrifying. OMG! What I would give to have ever been fortunate enough to have seen him on stage live. I only got the pleasure of seeing him in videos. But as I said I found him electrifying.
To the Jackson family and to Michael's beautiful children you have my deepest deepest sympathy for your lost. May Michael finally R.I.P.
Posted by: Jorian Walker | Jul 7, 2009 11:11:10 PM
Why doesn't the press and the media stop shoving Michael Jackson down our throats? Enough is enough. And why don't all you
over the top worshippers grow up? The man, yes, was a musical innovator and a child prodigy
but he wasn't THAT wonderful, nor was his music the best that has even been written.He was a pop idol who fell on public disfavor and
the fickleness of the public. I will probably be viciously attacked for saying it, but. I personally never cared for his music. NEVER felt the
need to buy any of his records or his videos. Michael Jackson wasn't THAT wonderful, folks. He was a mixed bag of talent and mental
problems. For example, Michael Jackson was a Jehovah's Witness at one point in his life. Then at another point he paid voodoo practitioners to put a curse
on Stephen Spielberg. But to hear all the ballyhoo and boo hooing going on now, you'd think this guy ranked above Jesus Christ in deity and
in importance. The way people are going ga-ga and bananas and the press is droning on and on and on about every nuance of his life and
his familiy and his estate and his relationship to any number of people in his life...and hashing and rehashing specials and pre-empting news hours
and everyone is expected to genuflect before Michael Jackson and weep bitterly over his death. I mean, I'm sorry he died
and it is tragic that he died so young, and he did a lot of innovation at some points in his life, but his later years were spent in legal
hassles, over-spending, and finally drugs to take away the sting of his mental anguish. He is as much a victim of his own making as he
is a success of his own making. His Dad and family whipped him into over-achieving and the whole Jackson family is messed up, even
if the Jackson children did go on to be musical successes. Micheal was Michael,not a god. He was a drug addict and that addiction to
the drugs killed him. He was a victim of his own too early success that robbed him of normalcy as a child and as a young adult.
What made Michael tragic is the excessively fickle cult of celebrity in our country and around the world...the excessive cult-style alternately worshipping
then despising the posthumously worshipping again of celebrities. In life we hound them,criticize them, fawn over them, are jealous and despise them
and elevate only selected ones like Michael and Princess Diana beyond what they were worth in real life. We pay more time and attention when
the press orders us to, than we ever do with kings, presidents, corporate chiefs, foreign potentates and religious leaders.
For Pete's sake, even God Himself gets nowhere near the adulation of celebrity that Michael Jackson is getting. Yes, Michael
did innovate in the areas of dancing, music videos and song writing and
cross over between black and white audiences. He does deserve credit for those things. But honestly, this weeklong media
event, this over the top hype and this cult of adulation shows the rotten, ingrown power of our national media to elevate and remove
stars from their pedestals. Even Ronald Reagan and President Kennedy's deaths didn't get the excessive miniscule hype that Michael is getting.
He was actually a victim of the very people who are suddenly falling all over themselves to extol Michael posthumously when for years they ignored him,
they laughed at Michael Jackson jokes (cruel jokes) of the late night comics and adopted the nickname of the press who kept calling him "Jacko"
while smirking about leaving the "FF" off the end.
It shows the power of our ROTTEN press that a few media conglomerates can exhalt whom they will and despise whom they will. President Obama
and his breakthroughs in Russia got back seat to Michael Jackson. For THE LOVE OF CHARLEY, this is bordering on Roman emperor
deification----not during life but after an emperor died. Nobody is THAT wonderful. He claimed to love children but he spent even after his fame had waned, over 100,000 dollars a MONTH
on his apartment. How many of the worlds' children DIED when that money could have helped save a lot of them? Michael Jackson
had a lot of personal hangups and mental problems. He suffered from anxiety, reclusiveness, insomnia and God knows what
else. That is partly why he got hooked on all those prescription drugs and why he acted impulsively sometimes and wierdly.
And maybe why he transformed himself from a good looking young man into a ghoulish-looking freak that looked like he came out of
some day-of-the-dead-horror picture show. And where were all you worshippers when for years you cared less about him? Jacko was good enough
for you and for late night comics who were constantly capitalizing on his misbehaviors to beat up on him and tell Michael Jackson jokes? Where are
all the people who told and re-told those jokes and laughed and scoffed and guffawed? Get over this. I am appalled that it has gotten this huge.
Michael ain't worth all the hype he's getting from a huge number of SHEEP. Bandwagon effect? You bet. Sincere? Nope.
Posted by: JL | Jul 7, 2009 11:43:58 PM
i have to say i'm devided..
On one side i was very moved that real friends like Brooke Shields or people like "Magic" Johnson fulfilled Micheals greatest wish, to present us the "PERSON" Michael and not just the "personality" as the king of pop.
On the other side i was dissapointed that we got to see so little of Michael HIMSELF and his musical legacy...but a few photos and a video lasting 20 seconds :(
What worries me the most is the behaviour of the Jackson clan regarding Michaels kids. There is a reason why there a but a handful of photos of the kids on the internet.
Michael NEVER wanted to hand his kids to the press on a platter like his family did on the memorial. Michael loved his kids too much for something like that and wanted to protect them no matter the costs!
My heart really broke when Janet commanded "speak up", as if it's Paris duty to speak, even when her heartbreak let her loose her voice. Michael would NEVER approve for his kids to be part of such a media spectacle, at least they should have veiled the kids to protect them in their mourning. Even though i was deeply touched by Paris words, deep in my heart i felt that Michael would not have wished for his beloved little daughter to bear such a burden.
I really hope that at least Diana Ross may have the strengh to protect the kids, so that they may not experience what he had to endure, to get dragged on the stage and in front of the media without mercy.
Sadly his mother seems to have not enough power to do soanymore, as she could not prevent for the kids to get dragged into the spotlight of the media.
His family is aready fighting over his money and i'm sooooo sad to see that his kids are only used to get hold of the money Michael consigned them. For gods sake they are but little kids which lost her daddy but a few days ago!!!!
As his FANs we have to do whatever we can to ensure that his kids won't be used by others, even if it's their own family!
There's a reason why Michael distanced himself from the Jackson Clan and had no contact to them for years!!
I have seen but two photos of the kids unveiled, one of a birthday party and one of a shopping tour with Michael and i decided for myself to never buy any magazine that helps greedy people exploiting the kids by showing them off!
I pray that someone who REALLY loves and protects Michaels kids gets to take custody of the them because it's my deepest believe that only then Michael will truly rest in peace!
He gave us so much and moved so many people all around the world with his music that i feel that we have to give something back.
Like i said i decided for myself to honour one of his dearest wishes, for his kids to be left alone to a "normal" life away from the media circus!
Dear Michael i send my prayers to you inheaven & your kids and hope that in death you find the peace you could never have in life! We will never forget your generosity, grace of charity or your fragile and gentle soul!
With deepest sympathy Stefanie
Posted by: kagomesirene | Jul 8, 2009 5:35:23 AM
Rest in Peace Micheal We love you
Posted by: Dee Owens | Jul 11, 2009 10:23:01 PM
Oh my God, how do I even begin to try to express how much I love Michael Jackson? It’s just not right that he is dead but it is finally starting to feel real and that fact fills me with sorrow. He was a super nova that was extinguished far too soon. I’m so angry with Murray, Klein, and all the physicians who let him down. Doctors are held to a higher standard then laypersons and with good reason. They have an enormous amount of power, authority and privilege. They have free access to dangerous drugs and if they are allowed to continue, abusing the privilege society has given them we should not punish young drug dealers on the street. Above everyone else in Michael’s life, his doctors had a responsibility to help him get healthy. The King is gone but he will never be forgotten.
Posted by: V. Brame | Jul 16, 2009 7:32:12 PM
Micheal was the best entertainer of all time and the entire world is grieving and we will all miss him. If people would understand his illness they would realize that he really was not eccentric. I do not believe he did what they said he did. He would not hurt anyone. He did not have it in him. He was a man of pure heart and loved everyone. I can remember watching him and his brothers on the Ed Sullivan show when he was 10 or 11. I am 1 year and 4 days older than Micheal. His music will live for ever! I know he is in Glory now and look forward to meeting him there! Rest in Peace Micheal! I love you! And yes I am white.
Posted by: mlshook57 | Aug 5, 2009 1:36:38 PM
Why do we love Michael Jackson so much? There are people out their shaking their heads and wondering. WEll, we love him because he loved us MORE. He loved and BELIEVED in humanity. He believed in our innate goodness, in our ability to to be united and and finding a common ground of LOVE. His songs spoke of healing our planet of looking beyond our skin color of reaching out to our fellow man. He broke through barriers and He put his money where his mouth was too. He gave and gave millions to charity and he is in the Guiness Book of Records for being a record holder in generosity to many charities. He was a champion of so many important causes, for the environment, for the homeless, for the disenfranchised, for children. He was an example to us all in how we should behave in this world, with kindness and respect for eachother. He was abused by the press and ridiculed and they did all they could to destroy him. But even with all that he told a reporter that he wasn't going to give up on people, that he still believed in humanity and the innate goodness of people. He also said he was "only human" and all the pressures of so much animosity finally got to him. Who wouldn't have sleepless nights as he did with all the negativity that was hurled his way when he only wanted to sing and dance and create beauty in this world? He was a positive light in this often times bleak world. We miss his light and his belief in us and in LOVE. But he still lives on in his music, and no one can take that away. For those who don't understand, go on YOU TUBE and watch his music videos and interviews and you will get to know him and you will understand why we love him so much.
Posted by: Catz | Aug 8, 2009 11:33:31 AM
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