Rest in peace MJ.
One of the greats, I enjoyed his music. Just posting some final thoughts on the King of Pop. It's been in the media forever and talked about ad nauseum.
Trying to remember my first Michael Jackson memory, I think as a kid it had to be the Beat It music video. Not even sure where music vids were shown back then! I aint that old...but still.
As a kid I just remember trying to imitate his dance moves, watching his creative music vids and enjoying the music. A rare artist that most of my family could all listen to at once.
He put out a lot of hits in the 80s. Of course he had his Jackson 5 career too, which I had not known as a kid. I think I liked J5 more as an adult, my favorite would probably be ABC.
The 90s had some good tracks too. His music video for Jam with Michael Jordan was awesome. So was Remember The Time with Eddie Murphy and Magic Johnson. And how about the most expensive music vid ever-Scream with Janet Jackson.
The Girl is Mine with Paul McCartney and his Invincible album were not his best work but they were still a fun guilty pleasure for me. And to be honest, he did do some crazy shit. I never look past that for a second but the guy is dead. I have no reason to speak ill of him.
Jackson was truly timeless. One time during my maritime training days around 3 years ago, I purchased his 2 disc essential album. (this was pre ipod for me) One of my classmates noticed I had the cds and asked to borrow it-so he could burn it to his computer. I had no problem loaning it out.
Those cds were gone for at least a week. I mean, when I went to pick them back up he loaned it to someone else, and they loaned it to someone else. Those cds were passed around, turns out a lot of people were MJ fans. People of all backgrounds too, Hawaiian, Caucasian, African American. True story!
Anyway, that's all I can say. Jackson will be remembered.
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