Phishanga said:

It only took 11 days before there was an attempt to steal and ransom Elvis' body. I hope that MJ will be treated with more respect by his fans/foes than that.

BoOTyLiCioUs said:

it's one thing to do it under the guise of a business partnership or even familial relationship, but leeching off someone when they are dead and not having given their dues when they were alive all while calling them a firend or idol and getting paid on top of that is downright sinful IMO.

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WaterInYourBath said:

I think any fan showing up @ the hospital is batshit. It's just not their place. That's a time for his family & closest friends to show up/grieve, etc. Fans are delusional if they think they had the "right" to be there. It's just overboard, seriously...

Ugh, he didn't "fling" Blanket over the balcony for "the paparazzi" - he did it because the fans were yelling "show us your baby!" and, like a little kid, he forgot how dangerous that was until a few seconds later.

Pathetic spending sprees? Like anyone wouldn't spend the way he did if they had that kind of money.

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Does anyone believe the Nanny was his long-term lover?

ehuffnsd said:

I really like how she and Michael utlizes/utilized Youtube

BoOTyLiCioUs said:

kalelvisj said:

Thank you too. for feelin it. I'm just feelin it. Michaels Spirit. Love to you.

Timmy84 said:

Awww.

july said:

I really love this one too.

purplesweat said:

Oh, well yea - if the fans said to do it that's totally acceptable

WTF?? Come on, a father of THREE CHILDREN shouldn't forget how dangerous it is to hold a baby over the edge of a balcony - seriously

Madonna's tribute was really classy. How did she pull that together so quickly? She gets on my nerves a lot of the time, but she deserves respect for this.

GirlBrother said:

I like how she made it celebratory. There's so much joy in his best music.

some pages from Billboard Magazine July 11 2009:

ehuffnsd said:

Lame.

whatsgoingon said:

Only floons.

midnightmover said:

Must have been an exciting day for you when somebody added an 'F' to your favorite word. You gonna repeat ad-nauseum and wear 'floons' out now too?

ehuffnsd said:

Despite the fact that Im not a madonna Fan I respect what she did it, at least she did something for MJ, Respect.

I was looking at the Quincy interview again and something stuck out, ok we know his vocal talents went way downhill,enough so that he had to lip sync most of the time in public.

Was 1986 the starting point to this?

From the Quincy Interview:

He told Details magazine: "He'd come up with, 'Man, I promise you I have this disease,' and so forth, and 'I have a blister on my lungs,' and all that kind of bulls**t. It's hard, because Michael's a Virgo, man - he's very set in his ways. You can't talk him out of it.

"A Blister on your lungs" wouldn't have anything to do with this skin tone? That sounds like an excuse for this singing ability back in 1986?

If I'd been there, I'd be one of the fainting girls for sure

BaileyWalker said:

you know what, Despite the fact that I have a huge admiration for Qunicy for his contributions to the music industry as a brilliant producer I think he should just shut the hell up and respect his age,Im not mad about the things he said about Mj, Im mad at the timing he chose to say this, he should shut the hell up, why he is saying these things after the man is gone, why after his death?or getting old has affected his brian? some people make me wonder:roll:

BaileyWalker said:

His vocals changed the most at puberty, but also changed with every subsequent nose job.

purplesweat said:

^ lol I remember crying whenever he came on TV:lol: I remember asking my father why were people going to the hospital instead of watching the show I had sense then, because there is no way I would pay to see a concert and be on a stretcher mid-way I never quite got that about the die-hard MJ fans.

Now that I think of it MJ got the tears going ... seeing Prince on TV would have me screaming/ shreiking at the TV aaaaah to be young(then)

For some reason, my instinct is that the Staples memorial isn’t going to be all that chaotic and may not even be a full event. In this economy, are people really going to travel from far and wide, take time from work, spend money on hotels etc. all with one days notice to go to a memorial for a musician-even Michael Jackson? I know he has super fans but I just don’t see this really happening. It takes nothing to register on the website for the lottery, but showing up is a whole different story.

purplesweat said:

That last spin he performs near the end of this performance is nothing short of incredible. I love how it cuts to those two young girls just after it and they have the biggest smiles on their faces like they just witnessed something magical.

Phishanga said:

That's a damn shame that people have to go out of their way to protect the remains of their loved ones. The crazy ass lunatics who call themselves fans need medication and need to be kept ass as far away from his corpse as possible. How can a sane, reasonble person not understand that the man does not belong to the public like a piece of property. If anything the only one he belongs to is the woman who brought him into this world and whatever higher power he believed in at his death. Barring that, I don't get the obsession how people need to project onto and connect with someone in this way. It seems like the only plausible way for this family to protect this man's body will have to be some unorthodox way of burial. I'm thinking something like how Princess Diana is buried on private grounds smack in the middle of a lake...or political figures buried in crypts, tombs, or underground graves with with those copper lids surrounded by flames and shit. At the end of the day, for whatever I felt about Jackson (or didn't feel at all) , this is still somebody's child. Folks need to back off and let him rest already. It's not like he didn't give himself to showbiz enough as it is. Now these crazy folks want to have the man in death, too

PRNelson said:

How does he do it? He gets at LEAST seven full spins down, how in the world...

purplesweat said:

I LOVE that spin

I'm surprised he's never blown his knee caps out throwing himself to the ground like that