Jamie fox's MJ dance is so funny.

Timmy84 said:

I think maybe he is acting like that to maybe avoid crying..or breaking down...if you understand what I mean.

peacenlovealways said:

He's detached.

People handle grief differently and it's difficult when you have to deal with all legalities and media that their family has to cope with. He (Joe) may be in the zone he needs to be in to keep handling business and keep everybody else together.

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shorttrini said:

i hope bob didn't say that. i posted yesterday about earl ofari hutchinson's blog at the huffington post which talked about the 40 charities that mj supported through the heal the world foundation as recently as 2008. i think he and everyone else understood the score in ethiopia. just because the press chooses to focus on him and bono doesn't mean they're the only ones who have made a contribution to helping others.

i'm often perplexed by the different impressions mj left on people. there seems to be such a divergence of opinions about him.

Is this a tribute or mockery really? Hope this gets better

peacenlovealways said:

Could be. I didn't cry either but I didn't laugh maybe he does need to laugh to keep from crying.

Timmy84 said:

I think most of his family had a part in some of the issues Michael had. His father was constantly putting him down about his looks,which lead to the surgeries,his Mother did'nt say do anything to stop the abuse from carrying on,and his brothers use to have sex with girls with him in the room when he was 10.
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Timmy84 said:

yeah

Just cause Joe was laughing- he could have been laughing at a joke.

I'm sure the man was crying behind closed doors

peacenlovealways said:

We all remember florida from Good Times.

I have to be honest, sometimes I do wanna punch Joe sometimes but I know what happens you can't control how fate is gonna be.

JackieBlue said:

I thought of this too. Probably the more diplomatic answer.

Michael clearly retained a child-like mentality, but he also never seemed to want to grow older physically either, and was desperately trying to preserve a youthful face, body, and movement, all the while unknowingly harming himself. Because of the pressure from all those people, I don't think he could really imagine himself being older, like at 70 or 80 years old, 'cause I've heard him say he did not want to go out like James Brown, i.e. not really being able to perform physically anymore but still doing it anyway for the public. I don't know. Prescriptions or not, his daily stress was damaging him. I will never believe he committed suicide though.

Man.....If he had declared that he would never dance again, I would have been perfectly fine with that. I didn't want him to do anymore "Moonwalker Michael Jackson" shows anyway. In these recent years, I've just wanted him to be happy, comfortable, healthy, sing when he wanted to, and I only still strongly desired to hear him just talk every once-in-awhile. I'm really missing his speaking voice and incredible intelligence.

I just have to say, this is so bad. Watching all these shows man....MJ is so special, and it's even harder for me 'cause I knew that WAY BEFORE this happened. Forget the entertainment, I'm talking about the person, since there are PLENTY of excellent performers and "leaders" who are/were horrid and cruel people. I can't stand it when incredible spirits like MJ are not appreciated when they are alive. Many people hate them, and many others "love" them for the WRONG reasons (greed, selfishness, thievery, lust, etc), which causes the person to be emotionally troubled, withdraw from EVERYONE, and end tragically like Michael. So not fair.....

Joe put on sunglasses. He looked like he was gonna cry

suga10 said:

wow, they put the video up quick.

Cry so hard that he pulled his business partner into camera shot and plugged his new record company!!!

WaterInYourBath said:

i was telling my mother that this oddly reminds me of 1984 at the height of mj's popularity, there was sense of palpable greed then, and it's here now. i was always rooting from afar for him to break free, but he was unable to. so not fair.
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Timmy84 said:

I thought this was an established fact?

kibbles said:

He did.

kremlinshadow said:

did you see that sh*t?! lawd have mercy! please let janet take those kids!

kibbles said:

Oh I wouldnt be suprised if Joe's already got the kids to sign over the estate.

Didn't the news say that Janet is the estate executor??

suga10 said:

Nope it said he and Katherine were!!!

Rogue588 said:

yeah, as an american, i know we can be an ethnocentric bunch. however i remember the video images from afirca in early '85, just like a lot of members on this board. we certainly do know where it is; a lot of us like mj came from there. michael took the message of the earth song seriously (and judging by the fact that it was a much bigger hit in europe, i would say so did a lot people), so i'm sure he didn't find cocker's behavior funny at all. i think geldof is saying a lot of self serving things to hype himself at mj's expense.

To some, Michael was just an entertainer. To others, he was a musical genius


I'm in the latter category. I want people to understand something.

Not everyone writes, produces, composes their material. Not everyone is a triple threat.


But he DID reach alot of people through his music, through his dancing, through his charitable efforts. You may not get what the fuss is about, you may not get why people all over the world are mourning his passing


Music isn't always about "Did they do it all?" It should be about feeling, bringing people together. And that's what Michael's music did....



...and that's what it's going to continue to do

Maybe I'm silly but I don't understand anyone in the family making a public appearance so soon after his death. I'm troubled by Joe saying Mike would be even larger in death than he was in life It just seems like he can't wait to milk the legacy. & seeing him @ the BET awards mentioning a record company?? Uh uhh, this shit ain't right. Can't tell people how to grieve but he's seeming like a blood-sucker to me right about now

CalhounSq said:

It would be nice if Janet took them in...yeah mentioning his record company....or something....

CalhounSq said:

Father out promoting himself at an event & mother out shopping at Target today - what next ....
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