Woke up, picked up my iPhone, read the WSJ update that said Jacko's in hospital. Actually laughed out lot, thinking that he was finding a way out of the comeback concerts in London that nobody in their right mind should've believed he could pull off, unless he appeared for just a few minutes each night (as has been rumored was contractually stipulated).
Then I flick to the next e-mail. Further update from WSJ - Jacko's dead.
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I've never been a Michael Jackson fan. Objectively, his music is good - some if it even great - but I've never understood the adulation he attracts. How do people see past his weirdness (and that's putting it charitably, insofar as the molestation allegations go)? And why does he continue to gain fans when his last good stuff was released over 20 years ago, and he's barely released anything since?
Anyway, this is going to be Elvis all over again, ironically given his past marriage to Lisa Marie. There will be Jacko sightings, and conspiracy theories...Jacko transcended real life long ago, and so his death seems in some ways just a case of the facts catching up with the (un-)reality.
Sorry if that sounds harsh - I don't wish him ill at all. Indeed, there's a part of me that feels he's probably better off now, away from all the things that made him so obviously an unhappy person during his lifetime.
Yesterday's YellowHandTweets after the cut, posted by LoudTwitter.
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