Friday 26th June 2009
Michael Jackson had a pretty rough life and maybe he’s better off now.
This pretty much sums up what I feel too.
I kinda think the biggest tragedy is that he didn’t die after the release of Thriller. Off the Wall and Thriller were by a distance his best work, and that would have left people wondering what amazing things he might have been capable of. Legendary status secure. I mean, he would have been bigger than Jesus.
Instead we’ve witnessed his protracted fall from grace both musically and more generally as a human being. He never got to grips with reality and along with his waning musical output, some uninspiring behaviour made him merely a despised curiosity in the eye of a merciless, unrelenting media storm.
His fans will remember him at his best, of course, but there’s no question that his brilliance was unfortunately considerably tarnished by the time he died.
Text posted at 13:09
