CalhounSq said:

i know, right? there's more important stuff for obama to tend to than to say something on mj's passing. doesn't mean that he don't know/care. they need to GTFOOHWTBS.

Cinnie said:

I agre post thrille, he looke best in ITC.

But nothing goes over the Beat It video MJ.

Arnotts said:

yeah...and who's karen faye?

BSK3478 said:

Obama has commented and that's all he should do. Or do you think all Mj fans will vote for him if he'd cried for the cams?

According to Fox News, the oldest boy was with him when he collapsed. He thought he was just joking around at first...

MyNameIsPiper said:

If that's true, he's scarred for life

MyNameIsPiper said:

My God, that would be horrible. 13 years...

Why didn't they let his own mother in???That's crazy...I think his parents and brothers and sisters come first.

Countthedays said:

Wow... Love this song. Thanks a lot for posting

BSK3478 said:

They don't give a shit. Mothafuckin' media bandwagoners... Don't appreciate someone 'til you're gone, how you expect everybody and they mama to suddenly comment? Just so you can argue who had the biggest tribute ceremony?

CalhounSq said:

Just not a fan of the Dangerous and HIStory eras, huh?

Wait a minute... that would mean you've never seen the "short film" of "Ghosts"?!

AlexdeParis said:

whoa...i haven't seen ghosts in ages. almost forgot about it.

AlexdeParis said:

I saw the vid. My opinions are the same as they were when I first saw it: "it ain't no Thriller, it's GOOD tho..."

It's rediculous that they would think that Obama is obligated to comment. Michael Jackson is an entertainer and Obama is a politician. They are in completely different fields. I realize that Michael Jackson is the biggest entertainer in history who happens to be black and Obama is the first black president, but did anyone ever pressure George Bush to make a statement every time an entertainer died? There's a double standard here.
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Are there any orgers from Detroit that are going to the candlelight vigil tonight at the Motown Museum?
My 16 year old daughter asked if we could go there for the vigil, so of course I said yes. She and my 14 year old son took the news of his death really hard.

vainandy said:

i was just finna say, why wasn't these bastages bugging dubya to comment on james brown's passing? where was they at then?

vainandy said:

Thank you! I just read something earlier this morning that pissed me off, a Guardian article that dared call MJ "the Obama of pop music". I feel like cracking some mothafuckin' skulls much worse than when Martha Reeves said Obama reminded her of Marvin!
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See, y'all are going to make me say something mean and disrespectful about Michael during this tragic period.

I'm gonna be nice though and simply say that film was horrible...but boy oh boy I could definately go on and on about that film.

Arnotts said:

Correct. Not only did he clearly not look like MJ, but his vocals were weird and not Michael Jackson. That DJ was duped, lol.

vainandy said:

In a week or two, you'll be back to your old self clowning the vid.

Or Ray Charles.

vainandy said:

See this is what pisses me off. To me I see James and Ray as the key figures of the revolution of global pop music. This revisionism they're doing with MJ in almost overlooking them is silly. Hell even the BET Awards probably didn't give them the send-off they're trying to give MJ (though they did try with James but it just seemed "there").

And I don't wanna hear "but Michael transcend..." I think MJ himself will be pissed of all the extra attention he's giving now when James and Ray never got that official send-off. You saw how in 2004 Reagan was more talked about on the news than Ray and James got a few media tributes. So the hypocritical nature of the MJ tributes has me on the edge.

But boy am I tempted. I'm gonna hush though because I don't wanna come across like a certain someone on here that goes to the river and is a poet.

vainandy said:

LOL, I feel ya... the tension here is still hot.

vainandy said:

and he made me say damn 31 times.

NMuzakNSoul said:

In a good way?

Small pic of Newsweek's special cover and an essay for its new edition.

This just in: Rock magazine Rolling Stone plans a special "book-a-zine" issue, with 450,000 copies planned at a price of $9.99 each.

Well, even as we speak, Farrah has gotten very little coverage since the news broke about Michael. I, myself, am guilty of kinda putting her on backburner because I absolutely loved that woman back in the 70s and was planning on going home the evening of her death and watching some of my DVDs of "Charlie's Angels" when she was on there. But later that day, the news broke about Michael and I've been glued to the set watching the coverage of his death.

I think it's because even though I loved Farrah, I knew she was sick and it was just a matter of time before she eventually died. But with Michael, that was totally out of the blue and unexpected. I want to watch Charlie's Angels but I'm afraid I'll miss something new about Michael's death if I switch from the TV to the DVD player.
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vainandy said:

Shit, Michael made me stop watching television for a couple of weeks. Not that it's his fault but got damn... lol, in a way I GET it and then I DON'T get it.

Copycat said:

Oh man, i'm gonna have to shell out a lot of money this week for all the magazines i plan on buying lol. Guess i'll be broke by the end of the week, but that's okay 'cause it's Mike :-0. I just have to buy all of these.