I felt very hard-hit by this news. He was a beautiful young man, wasn't he? I remember the thrill of seeing him sing and dance as a boy, with his brothers--what a dynamo he was, and how very significant it was way back then for a white middle-class family like mine to be all excited over a black performer. Michael seemed to disappear for a while, and then he surged back in the early 80s with what still stand as the most amazing music videos ever made, and a truly iconic great album of songs.
I always felt such sadness, watching him spiral down into that strange place he finally came to the end of today. No matter how bizarre the reports of his life and difficulties, I never had any inclination to make jokes about him or be disgusted. He was just so not of this world. The picture you found to post here, even though it was ostensibly taken before he started downward, reflects the sorrow that he always exuded.
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6/26/09 03:14 am (UTC)I always felt such sadness, watching him spiral down into that strange place he finally came to the end of today. No matter how bizarre the reports of his life and difficulties, I never had any inclination to make jokes about him or be disgusted. He was just so not of this world. The picture you found to post here, even though it was ostensibly taken before he started downward, reflects the sorrow that he always exuded.
Rest in Peace, Michael.