the weird thing about reading so much as a child and gaining a huge vocabulary from that is I can't define a lot of words i use, i just…know that they would fit correctly in a specific sentence. does anyone else experience that 😭?
“Somehow, in the midst of the circus that surrounded him, Jackson managed to leave behind one of the most impressive catalogs in the history of music. Rarely has an artist been so adept at communicating the vitality and vulnerability of the human condition: the exhilaration, yearning, despair, and transcendence. Indeed, in Jackson's case he literally embodied the music. It charged through him like an electric current. He mediated it through every means at his disposal, his voice, his body, his dances, films, costumes, words, technology and performances. He was Art Incarnate. His work was multi-aesthetic and multi-media in a way never before experienced.”
Onlookers said the crowd went so wild that the walls shook and the floor buckled as if an earthquake were striking. Yet the media ran headlines calling it a flop and claiming Jackson was booed; the story was spread worldwide that Michael’s performance had been a disaster. Outright lies. What the legacy media did to Michael is unforgivable.
Michael had a lot of empathy, so he probably believed that when he shows his vulnerability, other people would empathize with him, too. Unfortunately, jobs in the media tend to attract narcissistic vultures whose greatest joy it is to feast on the vulnerable.
mj should also be credited for the concept of artists having an era. he’s quite literally the founding father of rebranding the approach to a body of work
MTV hates being reminded of its own history. This introduction before the #VMAs airing tonight is telling. Michael Jackson fundamentally changed what artists were expected to do with a music video. He helped turn the music video from promotion into an art form, a performance, and an extension of the artist’s identity. That legacy is impossible to separate from the VMAs.
This is your reminder that in Michael’s case, “separating the art from the artist” would be very stupid because he was a wonderful human being, a generous humanitarian, and – above all – 100% innocent. His art is the expression of his beautiful soul. 😊
fans believing in michael’s innocence is often shrugged off as fanaticism but michael was a victim of extortion, police brutality, and ultimately murder….