...this just in from CNN...

MICHAEL JACKSON IS DEAD AND Y'ALL NEED TO LET THAT HORSE Y'ALL KEEP BEATING R.I.P AS WELL



we go live to Anderson Cooper...

"Horses all over the internet are being beaten to death for no apparent reason. Hundreds of stallions are reported to have been pummeled to death by crazed people trying to find a link between Michael Jackson and Prince."

ColAngus - looks like we were watching the same show! I wonder what Prince will think about this, if it wasn't apparent to him already. The guy has been just minding his business, ya know? lol

I also heard him mentioned on Democracy Now today, they were saying that the ppl should lean on the artists of this generation for guidance it was nice

bettybop said:

he'll probably say to himself, "damn, i killed MJ. owwwa!"

What an asshole, He's was like a spoilt brat, paying whatever price is took to be 'successful' he paid the ultimate price in the end though.. Prince doesn't even care that he should be in the Guinness Book for the 21 nights!


sorry to all the MJ fans, BUT THIS IS A PRINCE FORUM AFTER ALL.

I'm just getting pissed off at all the comparisons, Prince was and IS the best.

END OF.
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...this just in from CNN...

MICHAEL JACKSON IS DEAD AND Y'ALL NEED TO LET THAT HORSE Y'ALL KEEP BEATING R.I.P AS WELL



we go live to Anderson Cooper...

"Horses all over the internet are being beaten to death for no apparent reason. Hundreds of stallions are reported to have been pummeled to death by crazed people trying to find a link between Michael Jackson and Prince."

Militant said:

What I find so strange is that he died on the 25th anniversary of Purple Rain.

4bjb said:

that's the first thing that occured to me when it finally occured to me to see what was occuring on this very forum a couple days later

I don't know if any of you read the interview with the Director of the Montreux Jazz Festival (its in french.. but i can't remember the paper... , maybe Le Matin).

He mentioned that Prince had reheared 3 different MJ songs in Montreux and he thought they were going to play them but Prince surprised him and didn't. He mentioned it in the context of Prince being completely unpredictable.

I don't know if any of you read the interview with the Director of the Montreux Jazz Festival (its in french.. but i can't remember the paper... maybe Le Matin).

He mentioned that Prince had reheared 3 different MJ songs in Montreux and he thought they were going to play them but Prince surprised him and didn't. He mentioned it in the context of Prince being completely unpredictable.

I don't know if any of you read the interview with the Director of the Montreux Jazz Festival (its in french.. but i can't remember the paper... maybe Le Matin).

He mentioned that Prince had reheared 3 different MJ songs in Montreux and he thought they were going to play them but Prince surprised him and didn't. He mentioned it in the context of Prince being completely unpredictable.

lezama said:

That shows some respect, if nothing else. I like to kid about MJ- and still will, the guy was a nutball rolled in crazy- but I don't think P ever wanted to fan any flames with him. That's not Prince's way when it comes to other artists.

I posted about this in another thread....Usually I find some of the more extreme pissing contest between Prince and MJ fans silly as all hell...

To me, the debate only gets interesting when you get an inside view such as the Rolling Stone cover story on MJ....

It's really interesting to see how competitive Mike was with Prince til' the very end....At one point in the piece, Kenny Ortega, MJ's director for what was to be the This Is It shows, asked Mike why he had trouble sleeping during the run up to the gigs...

Clip from article:

"For the most part, nights seemed to be the biggest problem for Jackson--he had complained of insomnia. But it was also the time when he felt a higher power was channeling creativity to him. "I didn't get a whole lot of sleep last night," he would tell Ortega."I was up working on music. That's when the information is coming, and when it's coming you gotta work."

"Michael," Ortega joked with him, "why can't you make a pact with your higher power so that you could put these ideas on the shelf until after July 13?"

"No," Jackson responded. Then he might give them to Prince."


MJ was competitive to the very end...But it also shows how much respect he had for Prince...
[Edited 7/25/09 0:58am]

squirrelgrease said:

okay i don't know what i find more fascinating about these pics, the fact that he's in a room with a picture of himself above the bed, or that he's reading USA TODAY

L4OATheOriginal said:

Those USA Todays are always free at the hotels - someone should not have left that outside his door. He's studying that Prince article pretty good. The pic on the wall is very odd.

for all of us NOT used to him being mentioned ...

i found it funny today - as they were talking about M J and the 02 shows - the guy covering the MJ investigation mentioned that MJ was obsessed with beating Prince - they showed a quick snippet - as they were saying Prince sold out 21 nights and MJ had sold out 50 ... they then mentioned some of the odd requests MJ had - apparently he wanted to be in the Guiness book of records after the 50 dates ...

Michael was a legend and I have been a fan of his for a long time. The problem I had was that Michael always talked about numbers. It was mentioned that he wasn't happy with Off The Wall because he wanted it to sell more. I wish he would have put out more product though.For Prince, I think that after Purple Rain he felt he didn't need to prove anything else. So Prince tried new things.I always admired that.Hit or Miss he kept it moving.They are both legends.

No one has any idea about Prince any more.