Michael Jackson fans?! WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?

Cafe Society
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From http://earthlink.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,10836,00.html :

WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE? Do YOU know ANYONE who even LIKES this guy and his recent music, nonetheless gets “whipped into a frenzy” over him?

Seriously, do his people PAY these people to feed his delusion? Where are they COMING from?

Don’t get me wrong. I loved Michael–in 5th grade. (uh…1984, that is)

Now, it’s quote like this:

And…

…that just make you pause to wonder how long it’ll be before he self-destructs, one way or another.

:shaking head in bewilderment:

[sub]FANS?! Whipped into a frenzy?? WTF…[/sub]

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I think my wife’s a pretty big MJ fan, actually.

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No, love, that’s a big BJ fan, dearie.

We need to work on your acronyms. :wink:

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I’ve been wondering the same thing for years. With every new album there’s a news feature of people camping out in front of the record stores to be first to get it. Come on! You can’t even say you like the guy in a campy way! (Like you’d say “Hey, I sorta like the Village People, hahaha!”) He’s just 100% blech.

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You don’t think he already has? Look at his face. He makes children cry.

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I suspect those people are shills hired by MJ’s handlers to make it appear as though he were still popular, sort of like a Potemkin fandom.

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Yeah-like in his videos, he’s always surrounded by screaming, hysterical fans who are crying and going into orgasmic convulsions.

What’s up with that?

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Micheal Jackson will go down in entertainment history as one of the greatest tragedies childhood fame ever perpetrated. He is a truly sad and pathetic ghost of the young man he once was, who was in fact a musical genius and a towering talent.

His self-image and his actual image are equally grotesque. It is long past being mock-worthy and has plunged headlong into heartbreaking.

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Whatever happend to the other Jackson brothers? The last I heard they were going to team up with Michael for a song. Are the parents still alive?

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My (then ) four year old son saw a picture of MJ on the TV and asked straight out " What’s wrong with his nose, mama?"

Well. son, that is an example of too much plastic surgery and too little grasp on reality.

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Say what you will about the alien he’s become. Thriller is a classic album, and his work with the Jackson 5 is great too.

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Indeed, cainxinth, but is Thriller so great, and the Jackson 5 material so possessing, that you would wear “Free Michael!” shirts and await him outside a courthouse, shrieking hysterically when you saw him? And particularly…would you do this if you weren’t even born when Thriller was released?

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The man is talented-and probably very intelligent-when it comes to creativity and music, that is-and I do believe that creative geniuses tend to be somewhat eccentric and odd-my sister’s chorus teacher is an example-he once jumped in the Allegheny River during a major flood to save his brother in law’s BARGE from floating away. (REALLY pissed off the recovery crew as well).

However, Michael has gone way beyond eccentric.

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Hijack.
When I saw that picture of him on the witness stand – long hair, scraggly beard, weird nose – I flashed on a scene from Planet of the Apes.

He looked remarkably like Kim Hunter in her ape makeup.

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I like Nirvana too, but I’m not making annual pilgrimages to Kurt Cobain’s grave.

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Precisely my point, cain…where are they FINDING these people that are that obsessed over Jacko?!?

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What’s up with his nose? It looks like there is no substance there. His face looks like a skull. All that plastic surgery…shame really

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But on the bright side, if he makes a remake of “THRILLER” he won’t have to put on any makeup.

And let us all hope and (if you are religous) pray that something so horrid never happens.

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I live in Santa Maria and I was across the street from the courthouse on business about 30 minutes before he arrived on Wednesday. I would have watched his arrival from there except I was in a hurry.
Those were not shills, they were people who wanted to see a great entertainer. In fact, one of my teenage daughter’s friends got his autograph. Say what you will about this very very strange man, he is one of the greatest entertainers of all time. His dancing is amazing.
By the way, his appearance was the top story on our local tv stations as well as the local papers. And there really weren’t that many people out there. The article had it correct. Dozens, not hundreds.

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There’s a scary thought – if he remade the Thriller video. At the end of the day how would the makeup removalists know when to stop? They’d accidentally scrape off what’s left of his face.