Michael Jacksonmania pre-empts Farrah’s death
I’m not sure hot to feel about all the hoopla surrounding the June 25th death of Michael Jackson. I was a fan as a kid… I remember running to a friend’s house to watch the Thriller video (I didn’t have cable yet), but I’d tired of his freakish style and peculiar antics LONG before people started calling him a pedophile. Since that started I haven’t really seen or heard much of his music, but now it is everywhere again. I was out celebrating SF Pride at TRIGGER Friday night and was amazed at how much energy I witnessed whenever they played one of his songs (and that was often).
After a 10-year long morally-driven unofficial boycott of his work, Michael Jackson’s death suddenly freed everyone to enjoy his music publicly again. And they sure are. Jackson is at the top of the downloaded iTunes singles and the voice of the King of Pop echoes once again in the halls of our memory.
I DO feel bad for original Angel Farrah Faucett. After a lifetime of celebrity, she spends two years suffering through an agonizing illness, even making her attention seeking “I’m dying” TV special, only to be pushed off the front page by the sudden “mysterious” death of Wacko-Jacko. As a kid I was a bigger fan of Charlie’s Angels than I was of Michael Jackson. But I suppose, even I have to admit he leaves a bigger legacy than she does. But even still, he gets non-stop specials on every news station on cable, and all she gets is a a special on the 1/2screen scrolling TV Guide Channel. It’s not fair.
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