Posted on 07/07/2009 5:43:21 PM PDT by xzins
Forever it seems.
Forever we've listened to Michael Jackson tripe. It's trite and it's incredibly stupid...in the sense of "stupor inducing." It ignores face bleaching, nose trimming, pedophilia, and lying about fathering children.
We're told: "Greatest this and greatest that." I just read that some representative in our US Congress stated that Jackson "changed the world."
If so, how come not one of his own songs is in Billboard's top 50 of all time? How come it takes us all the way to #71 before one of MJ's pops up? Chubby Checkers is #1, Dianah Ross is in there. Lionel Ritchie. Kenny Rogers is there. Mariah Carey. Rod Stewart, for pete's sake.
But not "Mr Change the World."
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/specials/hot100/charts/top100-titles-80.shtml
IMO its part of an effort to normalize his child raping behavior.
It’s “Checker,” by the way, not “Checkers.” And he’s a great guy in addition to being a legend.
Spelling aside, do you know the man?
Can you imagine wanting to normalize child rape?
What kind of sick society would condone that?
(Ours?)
thanks
I agree with their #1 selection. I think you had to be there though.
Spent much of a weekend with him when he performed at an event sponsored by a radio station I worked for. Real down-to-earth guy and a great performer.
Sounds like a lot of fun.
But, I’m guessing you’d think a 2 month media slobberfest-memorial would be over the top for that time when Mr Chubs passes over?
So did Hitler, Mao and Stalin. As we've learned from less than six months of Zero, "change" is just as likely to be bad as good.
‘What kind of sick society would condone that?”
Muslims have no issue with child rape, after all their prophet married a 6 year old.
I remember in 1980 when John Lennon was murdered, he didn’t get this kind of treatment and the Beatles influenced music and culture far more than Jackson. I was young at the time, but I don’t recall Elvis getting this kind of treatment.
It’s all about the ‘hype’...
I can think of actual changes that have come about as a result of the twisted lives of Hitler, Mao, and Stalin.
For the life of me, I can’t think of one single change wrought in this world by Michael Jackson. (Mundane things like “he built a house that wasn’t there” don’t count.)
The listing is completely subjective. How could Del Shannon’s Runaway not even make the list? If it were on sales alone (thankfully not) Candle in the Wind would be at #1 overall. That and “Starting Over” hit #1 because of untimely deaths, and nothing more. Even obvious blunders like having the Captain and Tenille represented by “Do that to Me One More Time” instead of “Love Will Keep Us Together” and a VERY underrepresented Elvis make it clear that this was a list by committee, and not a very good one.
Obviously some mental incompetent who should be voted out of office ASAP. I'm willing to grant that Michael Jackson was a very good entertainer; perhaps even a great one - but his stuff wasn't what I was interested in. I'm more into musicianship than strutting around looking good. And there's a number of great entertainers who die periodically that the idiot hypocrite MSM aren't circle jerking themselves into a coma over for weeks on end.
If the MSM was doing even a semblance of their job, they would be instead spending their time slamming this would be Honduran dictator for life who the closet fascist Hilliary Clowntoon is giving the red carpet treatment to.
There are so many class acts from all ages that make MJ look like a maggot. Long live decency!
Ohhhhhhh yeah! :-)
It also makes it clear that the committee liked black musicians, but no so much did they like MJ.
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