RIP Jacko.
 

What was your initial reaction when you heard about his death?
Is there anything you'd like to say as a tribute?


Now, before you start making jokes about "kids being safe now", just don't do it to me. Just don't.
Please be respectful of the dead, whatever bigotry you feel towards him.

Although, when I think about it, it would have happened sooner or later.
Most likely I suspect MJ would've taken his own life.
IMHO he was never truly happy. Beaten as a child by his father, and the accusations and hatred felt towards him caused by the rubbish gossip magazines and whatever the media conjure up, just pushed him over the edge.

"People think they know me, but they don't. Not really. Actually, I am one of the loneliest people on this earth. I cry sometimes, because it hurts. It does. To be honest, I guess you could say that it hurts to be me." - Michael Jackson.

That just breaks my heart. I hope you're at peace now Michael Jackson.
You're a bloody legend and you'll never be forgotten.


*silently cries over the loss of her idol*

I agree Micheal's life was hard. I really wished he could of lived longer, I mean he was going to have a concert. When my mom told me I was like, "your joking. No he's not". But then I watched the news and sure enough. R.I.P M.J.

I mean, I still can't believe it.
I just feel numb.
He was the only person I would actually pay to see in a concert and not watch on Youtube instead.

I know how you feel. I keep thinking about him. I guess we all thought he would never die.

I've got his songs on shuffle and I listen to them over and over..in a daze.
I hope he's at peace now.


edit: Some of my favorite MJ songs are..
Smooth Criminal
They Don't Care About Us
Black or White (I love the beginning of the music clip )
You Are Not Alone

I can't stop listening to "You Are Not Alone". That's one of his songs I've never heard before. I'm sure he is at peace.

I just finished listening to it
What are some of your fave MJ songs?

Well:

1: Billie Jean
2: Thriller
3: You Are Not Alone
4: Bad
5: Man In The Mirror

Yours?

Smooth Criminal
They Don't Care About Us
Black or White (I love the beginning of the music clip)
You Are Not Alone

Bad has such a wonderful music video. It is long though

Most of his music videos are long!
Thriller was 13 minutes long lol
I love most of them, I just love seeing MJ dance. He's so great at performing.

I really wish I could've seen him live..I'll never get the chance now.

I was just watching on of his old VMA performance (1995) on VH1. He was incredible. What is your opinion about his color change? I think if he wanted it, who are we to stop him. If it makes him happy, so be it.

He never changed his skin color.
He had a rare skin condition called vitiligo, it's when the skin pigmentation cells die so the skin loses it's color. You can actually tell, because in the beginning he was quite dark, then he was a tan color, and finally he was very pale.
He was proud of his race, because when he and the Jackson 5 arrived in Africa, he apparently shouted, "This is where I'm from!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitiligo

Oh, sorry for my lack of knowledge (no, it isnt sarcasm ). I was told he had Vitiligo, but others have told me he changed it.

Don't listen to those who said he bleached his skin, lol.
Poor guy. All this crap about him..

What in your opinion was the reason behind his death?
People seem to think it was the medication he'd been taking..

Firstly, I DO NOT think he died of Aids as of what some people are saying. I think it was stress or depression. He may have taken 1 too many of those pain killers he was prescribed by accident or on ( I hope not) purpose.

Yeah, I think from stress.
I think he would've taken his life in the end,
he was so depressed and lonely..

I agree. He never had a childhood. He never had a best friend, he was to busy earning his evil dad millions of dollars.

Did you see today's ET episode?
They showed a bit with MJ saying that his one wish was to find the one person who could make him happy and they could go off someplace nice and be happy.

No, can't say I did. That is so sad, he never achieved it.

Lisa Marie Presley wrote in her myspace blog about MJ..
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?...logId=497035326

MJ thought he'd end up like Elvis Presley..

That is SO true.

I was on Youtube..I found this interview where Michael spoke of how the police treated him. The emotion in his voice..omg it's just heart breaking to hear how he was treated..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO7w...feature=related

Yeah my first reaction was : "noooo ?? serious ? really ??? o_O"
Like if he'd never die in my head. lol But we ALL die anyway a day or another.

Well his musics were my childhood songs like a lot of people I think
With my bro' we were fans at about 10 years old ROFL.
It's a good memory I have through these songs, and I think we can all thank him for his gifts.

It's weird I can't stop to listening his musics now...

One thing i don't like about him, his face in 2009.
He should have stopped surgery when he was doing the "Dangerous" album, his face was so nice at that time. Why did he changed it ? It wasn't necessary I think. But I forgive him lol

Sad we show love to a person at his death when he's not there anymore to know it.

Oh and my fav songs :
Remember the time
Black or White
Beat It
Dangerous
Who Is It

I love Janet' songs from Rhythm NAtion , the best album Her newest are less good :p

I forgive him for the plastic surgery, too.
I'm not quite sure how much he got, I know he got his nose done back when he was darker, then he broke it back in the late 90's and had to get it done again, but it looked pretty bad. I know he did something to his lips and maybe had cheek implants (?).
But plastic surgery in no way makes him a bad person and I hold nothing against him for doing it.

The music video for Remember the Time was awesome, he and Eddie Murphy are so good together
I only recently became a fan, and I mean really recently, almost at the same time he'd announced his comeback concerts. Really wanted to go!