Long live the King...
Music industry writer Bob Lefsetz on Michael Jackson (via Cynical-C and Boing Boing):
He missed his childhood and now he's gonna miss his old age. How fucked up is that? Michael Jackson never had a chance. He had to succeed for his family, his parents' dreams were dependent upon him. And a boy with that much pressure delivers. He works truly hard, so he will be loved. That's all Michael Jackson was looking for, love. He wanted to be accepted. Wanted to be so good that he couldn't be denied. But you can't change family history, and the public no longer treats you as human, as an equal, once you break through. People want to rip you off or tear you down, or shower you in faux love that's more about their unfulfilled desires than yours. It gets so confusing that you retreat.
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And if you have any doubt about the man's influence on culture, whether you like his music or not, whether you believe he was a pedophile or not, his death swamped Facebook, Twitter and other internet sites: "My Twitter search script sees roughly 15 percent of all posts on Twitter mentioning Michael Jackson. Never saw Iran or swine flu reach over 5 percent," observed Ethan Zuckerman, a fellow at Harvard's Beckman Center for Internet & Society.
A MercuryNews.com report on Jackson's death soared near the top of Google News and brought four times the normal traffic to the site. Facebook spokeswoman Meredith Chin said user "status updates" on Facebook — typically a quick, short comment to a user's personal network of friends and acquaintances — were running at three times the usual pace in the hour after the news broke. Such updates "are still well above our usual numbers," she said after 5 p.m.
Michael Jackson's videos on his YouTube channel.
Music industry writer Bob Lefsetz on Michael Jackson (via Cynical-C and Boing Boing):
He missed his childhood and now he's gonna miss his old age. How fucked up is that? Michael Jackson never had a chance. He had to succeed for his family, his parents' dreams were dependent upon him. And a boy with that much pressure delivers. He works truly hard, so he will be loved. That's all Michael Jackson was looking for, love. He wanted to be accepted. Wanted to be so good that he couldn't be denied. But you can't change family history, and the public no longer treats you as human, as an equal, once you break through. People want to rip you off or tear you down, or shower you in faux love that's more about their unfulfilled desires than yours. It gets so confusing that you retreat.
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And if you have any doubt about the man's influence on culture, whether you like his music or not, whether you believe he was a pedophile or not, his death swamped Facebook, Twitter and other internet sites: "My Twitter search script sees roughly 15 percent of all posts on Twitter mentioning Michael Jackson. Never saw Iran or swine flu reach over 5 percent," observed Ethan Zuckerman, a fellow at Harvard's Beckman Center for Internet & Society.
A MercuryNews.com report on Jackson's death soared near the top of Google News and brought four times the normal traffic to the site. Facebook spokeswoman Meredith Chin said user "status updates" on Facebook — typically a quick, short comment to a user's personal network of friends and acquaintances — were running at three times the usual pace in the hour after the news broke. Such updates "are still well above our usual numbers," she said after 5 p.m.
Michael Jackson's videos on his YouTube channel.
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