Can you feel it?
I never liked music until I was into my teens. No radio or MTV was ever playing. If you asked me what my favourite childhood song was I would just stare back at you completely blank. No, it wasn’t until my teens I discovered music. One group of my friends loved Nirvana and Oasis while the other loved Rap, especially Eminem. I really got into Eminem and Nirvana at this time, and these two are still my faves today.
You would also have to add Michael Jackson onto this list. I was 17 and on a daily mail CD give away, blame it on the boogie was included. I immediately began searching all forms of music from MJ. Unfortunately, 2 years later I have unearthed everything MJ, there is nothing I have not heard, a performance I have not seen. I keep in touch with download sites, to see if anything pops up, but rarely I see anything new and I have to settle for downloading Jackson five performances, which are OK but not on a par with his later performing. I miss the days of listening to Billy Jean for the first time, or hearing DSTYGE at a club. I don’t know if MJ is ever going to release new material with all the crap that is surrounding him.
I can’t say 100% that he is innocent, I want to give him the benefit of the doubt…but who knows in this world? I wish his behaviour was different. After 1993’s allegations, he should have stopped the sleepovers and therefore ruled out any potential criminal investigations, but instead he carried on and now look at it all. MJ does inspire me in other aspects though, and I feel I can relate to him on many other levels, but what a shame it is like it is. Music is what sucked me into the world of MJ, but slowly I seem to be drifting away, he’s not on my play lists as much, I don’t post on message boards about him anymore and the negative aura surrounding him at the moment just gets me angry. I am still passionate about his influence in my life, and just from reading this you can see how contradicted I am about the man. He is not respected the way he should be for his musical and performing ability. He has not only filled his potential but gone beyond that. No-one can touch MJ live yet I never hear any praise of his live performances except for “Motown 25” like that’s the only performance he’s given. He sold out Wembley more than any other artist, yet they choose to bang on about Madonna or U2. I search the BBC website about his performances at Wembley and there is not a damn thing on there. Cunts. Provide me with a bit of reviewed history please, don’t just tell me about thriller selling 50 mil.
That’s another thing too, can you imagine if Robbie Williams sold 50 mil copies of one album? (won’t ever happen) he’d be hailed as the greatest of them all and that album proclaimed the “best ever”.
MJ is under-rated on a professional level, people blur the lines between art and the man. Is van gough not as valid because he cut off his ear? Heh, I don’t think so. But fuck em, MJ has millions of fans that appreciate everything he has given, lets see Bono‘s, Madonna‘s and Robbie Williams fans wait outside them for court. No chance.
But of a rant there, I do apologise.
You would also have to add Michael Jackson onto this list. I was 17 and on a daily mail CD give away, blame it on the boogie was included. I immediately began searching all forms of music from MJ. Unfortunately, 2 years later I have unearthed everything MJ, there is nothing I have not heard, a performance I have not seen. I keep in touch with download sites, to see if anything pops up, but rarely I see anything new and I have to settle for downloading Jackson five performances, which are OK but not on a par with his later performing. I miss the days of listening to Billy Jean for the first time, or hearing DSTYGE at a club. I don’t know if MJ is ever going to release new material with all the crap that is surrounding him.
I can’t say 100% that he is innocent, I want to give him the benefit of the doubt…but who knows in this world? I wish his behaviour was different. After 1993’s allegations, he should have stopped the sleepovers and therefore ruled out any potential criminal investigations, but instead he carried on and now look at it all. MJ does inspire me in other aspects though, and I feel I can relate to him on many other levels, but what a shame it is like it is. Music is what sucked me into the world of MJ, but slowly I seem to be drifting away, he’s not on my play lists as much, I don’t post on message boards about him anymore and the negative aura surrounding him at the moment just gets me angry. I am still passionate about his influence in my life, and just from reading this you can see how contradicted I am about the man. He is not respected the way he should be for his musical and performing ability. He has not only filled his potential but gone beyond that. No-one can touch MJ live yet I never hear any praise of his live performances except for “Motown 25” like that’s the only performance he’s given. He sold out Wembley more than any other artist, yet they choose to bang on about Madonna or U2. I search the BBC website about his performances at Wembley and there is not a damn thing on there. Cunts. Provide me with a bit of reviewed history please, don’t just tell me about thriller selling 50 mil.
That’s another thing too, can you imagine if Robbie Williams sold 50 mil copies of one album? (won’t ever happen) he’d be hailed as the greatest of them all and that album proclaimed the “best ever”.
MJ is under-rated on a professional level, people blur the lines between art and the man. Is van gough not as valid because he cut off his ear? Heh, I don’t think so. But fuck em, MJ has millions of fans that appreciate everything he has given, lets see Bono‘s, Madonna‘s and Robbie Williams fans wait outside them for court. No chance.
But of a rant there, I do apologise.
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