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Friday, July 10, 2009

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By rowatson @ 10:16 AM :: 248 Views :: 1 Comments ::

So in the event of all the recent celebrity deaths, the conversation has been buzzing and bouncing for weeks now. Just a recap..

David Carradine, 72 yrs – June 3

Ed McMahon, 86 years – June 23

Farrah Fawcett, 62 yrs – June 25

Michael Jackson, 50 yrs - June 25

Billy Mayes, 50 yrs - June 28

Steve McNair, 36 yrs – July 4

Through multiple conversations some seem to be upset at the attention Michael Jackson has received as opposed to the others. First I’d like to say that we, the public, the fans make these people have fame or not. We the masses choose those who are thrown into the spotlight and those whom we shun. Now just think for a moment out of these recent deaths… who has had the most impact in your life? David Carradine- made me a wise young grasshopper. I loved Kung Fu as a child. Ed McMahon’s voice will forever ring in my heart, “Heeeeeeeerrrrrreeeee’s Johnny!” Farrah - a true Angel in my eyes. She was a beauty with a grill that lit up a room and hair every girl wanted and tried to have, myself included. Billy Mayes- yelled at me until I felt obligated to buy Oxy Clean and/or KaBoom! I wasn’t very familiar with ex quarterback for the Titians Steve McNair, but I do know that he participated in a game I love to watch. Something that gets our blood pumping and crowds roaring. Go team! Then of course there’s Michael…

Well because of the heavy coverage of his death, the controversies and the conversations I spoke of, it made me think. What made his death more captivating to us then the others? Shocked and sadden by all, yet each effect us differently. The only personal conclusion I could come up with is the music. Plain and simple. While we were entertained by the others, music truly touches the soul. When you’re an artist who touches the souls of so many, for so many years, fans tend to want to feel like they are a part of their life as the songs did just that from the artist. Does that make sense? This is not to say that his life was more valuable than the others, its just saying that it’s the music that moves you. It always will! A single song can make the entire world dance and sing! It’s magical. Michael has brought us music for the last 45 years. Just think… if you were born this year he was musically in your life. If you are 90 years old, he has been musically in your life for half of it! Even if you were never a fan .. we all know MJ. And if you are a fan you always will be! Life is life just as death is death. May they all RIP

Comments

By Arthur Gardner @ Friday, August 14, 2009 11:15 PM

I often refer what's happening to this day and age as The Era that's slowly showing it's Death. Referring specifically to Michael's death, remember a time in history known notoriously as The Day the Music Died? Yeah... I wasn't born anywhere near that time frame, I'm 24, but I look around in history whenever it has to deal with music and I know about that day pretty well.

When Buddly Holly, Ritchie Valens and JP Richardson died all at the same time in a plane crash on February 3rd, 1959. Michael's death is like a recurrence to that tragic gesture.

Farah Fawcett? I honestly knew very little about her except for some of her roles in movies and Charlie's Angels, but it seems the tabloids and magazines spit enough info about her life that I've now recently realized she was a pretty amazing person. That Jackson and Fawcett passed on the same day followed by every other significant individual as far as entertainment goes... let's not forget to put Les Paul into that list most recently.

Mortality has a funny way of reminding us who we are, who we knew and what we set out devices to... and it never gets easier seeing the people who made such an impact on your life, whether you knew them exclusively or not-- when you danced to a Michael Jackson song, you felt that much closer to him... as if you were dancing along side him, hoping he would show you how to do the moonwalk correctly, haha! Or Fawcett, that even on the TV screen or so, you'd felt like you've known the person for forever, that who she played as was not just another character, but herself in some other portrayal.

Still, I feel like I'll be ranting myself here so I'll cut it at that but all of this still hasn't passed easily with me yet. As my own style of mourning. I'm still listening to MJ songs nearly religiously on my MP3 player, out of every album he's made throughout his legacy.

You great folks out there who made your legacy, we'll always miss you and we'll never forget. Rest in peace, all of you.

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