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March 13, 2009 · Posted in Entertainment, Featured, Funny and Odd, Junk Mail, Music, People in the news, Things to think about, Topic Blogs · Comment 

 

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I actually knew this would happen for some strange reason.  Jacko (aka Michael Jackson) has hit the jackpot again by selling out all of his announced shows in London.  A world tour?  Hmm… 

You have to admit, we all have (had) a soft spot for Mike. (or maybe his music)   The jacket in the Thriller video, Billie Jean, the Neverland Ranch (should have been called NeverPaidTheMortage Ranch). 

I’ve always had this theory of what happened to Michael Jackson and please chime if you want to.  First of all, a lot of younger people forget that Jackson has been a mega star for nearly 40 years!  Since the time he was in grade school in the late 60’s; he was a pop star singing with the Jackson Five.  It wasn’t until the late 70’s that Jackson broke out on his own and established himself as a solo artist. 

I laugh when I hear people say his career was short lived, um folks, when Thriller came out in 1983, he was already loaded and had been recording all through the 70’s.  Thriller was a juggernaut of an album and this was during an era when there was no other media outlets for music besides radio, records, and MTV.  The international success of Thriller tossed Jackson out of reality and into a world of seclusion and unimaginable wealth. 

The last 10 years or so has been rough for him with all the oddball stuff he’s done and the charges against him.   If you think about his life during the 80’s and early 90’s –  he couldn’t go anywhere without an entourage of body guards and motorcades.  Jackson never grew up.  He lost his childhood years before he was a solo star and I think it seriously screwed with his head.  He had no real friends besides Liz Taylor, Brooke Shields, and Emmanual Lewis (which teeters on the whole “child” thing which I find disturbing)…oh yeah and a monkey.

His life was not his own.  He couldn’t go anywhere or maintain normal relationships with people.  He was revered as a demi-God on an international level.   Practically every non-english speaking country around the world adorned him as much as his fans in the States did.   Same thing happened to Elvis and look what happened to him.  That kind of attention and constant spotlight has to seriously jack with your perception of reality.  Dude, I’m not a therapist but I try to stay open to all “possible” explanations of how humans behave.  This is supposed to be bar talk, remember? 

I have always thought Jackson sought some kind of personal solace in children because they posed no threat to his security or financial well being.  His relationships with adults deteriorated as he fell deeper and deeper into a trench of lonely super-stardom.  It’s like he’s still trying to recapture something that he lost years ago because his family thrusted the siblings into adulthood way before their time.   I’ve read stories about Michael sharing hotel rooms with his older brothers, and having to sit idle as they “entertained” groupies.  I’m sure life was not all lighted sidewalks and sequin gloves.

Here’s the part where I piss people off which is why I love writing a blog.  I’m not totally 100% convinced that Jackson is a full fledged pedophile, but I am convinced that over time he developed a warped perception of who he attached himself too. A lot of it goes back to his status in the world, he was led to believe that he was God because he was treated like God.  He rationalized everything he did as being “normal” and “socially acceptable” while the world saw it as freakish and criminal.   His constant obsession with appearance and how his face has morphed into a Lord of the Rings, elfin magic looking thing from what was once a baby faced young man.  It’s like he was in a perpetual state of hiding from the world by always changing his face and then having to overcorrect, again, again, and again, until he was so far gone that he ruined it. 

I’m not undermining those families that brought charges against him, not in the slightest.  He’s a fascinating case of someone who made a lot of odd and poor decisions some of which landed him in legal troubles.   He should have never of involved himself with children the way he did and it ultimately hurt him professionally.  

He has rendered himself old news because of his antics, but still an interesting subject who somehow still manages to wiggle his way back into the spotlight.  He’s had a big impact on pop music and sadly the carnage transformed him into what he is today…that of which I’m not sure what.

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