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Who else is sickened by the amount of time and space which the media have devoted to Michael Jackson? What a shameless exploitation of a death for readers and ratings. And I'd like to know where most of his celebrity "friends" on stage today were when the singer was in legal and financial trouble? What a bunch of camera-hogging hypocrites. It's just wrong, wrong, wrong.
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Amen to that.
right on Nikki !
Hey Nikki how about a story on the excess $$$ Cali & LA has spent on this circus. 4 million is what I last heard. Arent we in the middle of a budget crisis?!? Why isnt any news outlet talking about this?!?!
Amen. And for the promotional company to suggest such an event for publicity and not lay out one penny…and of course the family isn’t either. The City of Los Angeles asking for donations? He was certainly a talented man, but there is a line between honoring, and milking for publicity and sales.
It has been enough but the Memorial was well done
Amen.
And why does it have to be on every channel like it’s the 9/11 coverage?
Maybe the celebrity friends can help pay for the funeral:
http://mayor.lacity.org/PressRoom/PressReleases/LACITYP_005598
It’s sign that our pop culture bubble has burst.
Network & Cable News programming died today.
The cable news nets have taken MJ from Thriller to filler.
You are so right about this. I’m sick of it. So very sick of it. All of his “friends” just took and gave nothing.
Are you new to the planet Nikki? What did you think would happen? Fame and celebrity are shallow institutions so how else should the most famous celebrity be remembered? The more interesting angle on this story isn’t the predictable “look at how phony everyone is”, it’s the fact that maybe a lot of people actually feel sad about his life and loss.
This thing was revolting!
Although Smokey Robinson & Berry Gordy gave nice, touching eulogies, the rest was disgusting & so over the top.
And I just her Cynthia McFadden on ABC say it was so nice & respectful.
ARGGGGHHH!
And forcing Paris to speak was child abuse, continuing the sad family legacy!
They wouldn’t dedicate the space if no one was watching.
couldn’t agree w/ you more!
blood sucking vampires. all of them.
Looks like NAMBLA runs the media.
I was just thinking the exact same thing!
the funny thing about your rant, is that your doing the same thing as the “media”… talk about hypocrite…
Money talks…
Agreed. Hopefully once he’s buried this will all be behind us. How quickly the lemmings forget.
Wow. You are bitter.
Nikki-
Give me a break. Some of those “celeb friends” at the memorial were supportive of MJ through his trials and tribulations…your a gossip columnist so I highly doubt you know the inner circle as much as you may claim you do.
Could not agree more. Acknowledging his importance in the entertainment world, this kind of coverage for a “singer” is obscene.
His demise has served as a grand distraction for the theft going on by the Federal Reserve, Congress and the deluded altruists in Sacramento. Psychologists call it ‘localizing the pain’ of broad disillusionment. It frequently happens right before the patient dies – or he finally wakes from his paralysis and realizes that his own needs of survival come first and foremost before the supposed ‘needs’ of the world. There will, in the altruist mind, always be someone more deserving than ‘you’. The rejection of this pathetically limited thinking is what, heretofore, has separated the American standard from the Old World thoughts of limitation. Mr. Jackson’s brilliance effectively froze a generation of dreamers in place, disabling their potential to become something real, while they lived vicariously through the performer – compounding their failures with the denial of his many unapologetic and inappropriate affairs. Let’s move on – as people in entertainment and as Americans – from the days of Pop culture, and return to a day of personal, domestic and political responsibility. The time is now. Now.
While the media coverage has been atrocious, I did find today’s memorial (minus Al Sharpton and Sheila Jackson Lee) to have been a great send off.
Hopefully after today we can leave the coverage to TMZ.
Nikki,
You’re wrong on this. Mike’s death is one of those moments that bind us all together. For me it’s been a reminder of our collective humanity, not just as Americans but as citizens of the world. And as an black person – I’ve never been prouder. The king is dead – long live the king. “Off The Wall” forever!
You hit the nail on the head Nikki. All this over acting today was just shameless.
Brooke Shield’s hasn’t seen MJ since 1991, and acted like they were BFF till the end.
Usher was just looking for an Academy Award.
John Mayer seemed the only one who wanted to honor the musician though he had nothing to do with MJ in life.
I wonder once it is revealed that MJ died of a crazy anesthia drug overdose will he be so revered.
He died a junkie w/ 3 kids in debt. Let this go already media elite.
The only thing worse than all the media coverage… all the people whining about the amount of media coverage. Get over it. That’s the world we live in these days, where anyone (including hypocrites) can twitter and have blogs about industry gossip.
the coverage for the memorial today better be the end of it.
i’m stuck watching david spade doing stand-up on comedy central as every other freakin’ channel is covering staples center.
that’s the real tragedy right there.
good call, nikki.
the jackson brothers in the ‘white glove’ tribute really threw me over the edge. leeches.
I LOVE YOU, I READ YOU ALL THE TIME. BUT YOU ARE BEING A LITTLE TASTELESS TO SAY THIS RIGHT NOW. CLEARLY TEN DAYS AGO YOU MADE A POINT OF TELLING US IN NOT SO MANY WORDS HOW YOU “WEREN’T GOING TO COVER THIS CIRCUS.” NOW YOU ARE COMING OFF COMPLETELY RUDE.
Even more disgusting is the gushing and lack of objectivity on CNN. Analysts comparing MJ to Mozart, calling him “bigger than Sinatra, Elvis and The Beatles combined”, declaring him a “Civil Rights figure”, and none of it unchallenged, in fact met with agreement from Soledad O’Brien. Only Anderson Cooper seemed uncomfortable and willing to occasionally challenge the shameless agenda being pushed by CNN’s own analysts. No mention of the civil settlements to his victims, no mention of his drug addiction. Instead non-stop babble about how Michael Jackson is the most figure of the last century.
Journalism is dead.
Thank you.
yes – i am completely over hte rectification of saint michael. and my biggest, biggest beef is that the city of LA is funding the security, traffic control, etc. to a MINIMUM estimate of $4million. the Jackson’s chose Satples Center for their venue, this is their expense. Offensive for a city that cancelled summer school.
The spotlight on LA will bring money to LA. Plain and sadly simple the economics of MJ’s death are a big plus for LA. Imagine if he had passed in London. Here, in LA, people now are flocking here, and while not all millionaires they are spending money. Enough? Turn the channel (PBS didn’t cover) or change the radio. Land of the free and the freaks. No one will have the career he had, not in our lifetimes.
sounds like you’re either jealous or just as big of a prick as the congressman from NY. When you’re bigger than Elvis, this is acceptable. Think about it Nikki, how many people in the world have touched so many people in so many different ways? There isn’t too many that have had an impact like he has which to me justifies this media non-sense. Do I like it or care, hell no but I am not ignorant towards it like you clearly are. Do you think I’m going to enjoy my runs around downtown today? Do you see me bitching and complaining like a lil’ 2 year old girl? Do you ever stop to think that some people might be tired of the biased bull shit and other random crap you post on your site? Fucking women!
It’s ridiculous. As my good friend @kyle_newman just posted on twitter, “how cool would it be if MJ just got up, started dancing and kicked off his tour as a zombie…and this was just one BIG publicity stunt”
The bad news is that the MJ story dwarfs a U.S.A./Russia summit meeting. The good news is that it pushes John and Kate off of the covers.
Is it really ’shameless exploitation’ or just another slow news day in media land (which BTW is your turf, too)? And it’s Hollywood, babe, hypocrisy is the name of celebrity is just part of the game.
I think you are wrong, wrong, wrong. Michael Jackson is dead and this is the 24 hour news cycle. People are craving information and they are providing it.
Michael’s children will appreciate the media send off when they are old enough to comprehend who their father really was.
What the hell could Berry Gordy or Brooke Shields do about his legal and financial trouble? And what makes you think that any help they might have offered him would be disclosed as publicly as their tributes to him? It’s not very smart of you to be sick of the media fascination on the day of his memorial service, that’s for sure. Did you think the news outlets would be covering a talent agency merger instead? If this continues tomorrow, then your whining might have some relevance.
Thank god somebody has the balls to say this! Before he died people avoided him like the plague, but it is amazing how dieing is a “cure-all”.
True, but there are many people the genuinely miss MJ and enjoyed having a community to share the experience with. I’m glad the ceremony went the way it did. I’m only saddened that LA felt they should close out the fans. Reminiscent of the police state in moonwalker.
Doing my best to ignore it as much as I possibly can. I am not sorry this freak is dead.
Yup – gross. His popularity is being horribly overstated by the media, as evidenced by the fact that about 10 people showed up outside Staples – so much for the much touted ‘up to a million’. The dude stopped being relevant 20 years ago. They should have held the funeral after ‘Bad’
Oh shut up. I’m so sick of people complaining about the coverage. It will go away soon. Just quit whining. Jesus.
if there were a “like” button, I’d click it. Repeatedly.
Are you really surprised by this? Exploitation is as American as apple pie.The media want to use Michael Jackson’s death for rating purposes, celebrities want to use it for camera time, and his father wants to promote his record company.Welcome to the world, enjoy it for what it’s worth.
I’m sickened by the fact that I suffered through 90 minutes without a single appearance from Emmanuel Lewis.
I agree that the media coverage has been self-serving, but watching the memorial actual made me remember how talented the guy was. Although I had thought that he was a freak at best and a molester at worst, I think the memorial will leave me with a more favorable view of him. As a parent, the daughter’s short statement at the end broke my heart.
Not to mention he diddled kids.
No one gave two s#^s about this guy the last 15 years and suddenly everyone wants to feel like they’re a part of something big b/c he died. Everyone conveniently ignores the parts of his life that they dont like. Sure he had an impact on culture and music, but how can you separate the crazy kid-diddler from the musician? His legacy has been that of “great musician goes bat-s$t insane” and now everyone wants to ignore it. Everyone’s talking about how he had an impact on their childhood. Why dont you go ask all those kids who “slept over” at Neverland how he impacted THEIR childhood.
Shut up, Nikki.
I agree totally, Nikki.
It’s a travesty on so many levels. All this for a pedophile. And the fact that the network anchors would debase themselves by convering this is unbelivable.
If this happened in the 60’s, would Walter Cronkite be standing in front of the Staples Center? Something tells me no.
oh stfu nikki, seriously.
I am in total agreement here.
I was sad (and shocked) when he died but you would have thought God Himself had expired today based on the spectacle at Staples. It less a memorial than it was a concert – and it felt very innapropriate. When Al Sharpton started screaming about how it was Michael Jackson that helped races come together and made it possible for us to elect Obama, I had to turn it off.
I only hope today brings much-needed closure to his adoring fans and family.
Nikki beat it. You need to look at the Woman in the Mirror and moonwalk an apology for your horrible comment moments after that tribute.
Shut up you stupid whore. You are doing the same thing. Burn in hell.
Wow, so heartless.
Gee I can only imagine the types of things that would have been said about Elvis back then if the internet existed.
I’ve only seen a couple of minutes here and there of the memorial, but a few moments I found interesting:
1) Al Sharpton telling us that Michael Jackson “taught us how to love”.
2) Martin Luther King’s daughter relating a story where MJ called her family “American Royalty”. Self promoting whenever possible.
3) Rep. Shiela Jackson Lee, from the Congressional Black Caucus rehabbing MJ’s legacy and relating how MJ taugh us to look at the “man in the mirror”. Bad example, in my opinion.
4) Jesse Jackson got on stage at the end of the memorial. He’s the Don King of poverty pimps. He’s so desperate to rehab his own image after his Obama comments on Fox.
Definitely four million dollars worth…
Shut up, Nikki!
Cold Nikki, real cold.
I followed your blog with respect. not so sure anymore. There’s a time and a place. Right now, wasn’t it.
As to those that wanted Journalism at a memorial. Hello?! When has a memorial EVER focused on the negatives of anyone’s life. it’s shouldn’t. And it doesn’t happen.
Elvis died in a similar. Wasn’t he hooked on prescription drugs too?
I’ll admit, the media is going a little overboard but the people who have a problem with MJ are, dare I say, white people.
Thank God, Nikki.. I thought I was the only one who felt the coverage of MJ was way over the top and just pathetic. He was good in the 70-80’s but hasn’t done squat since then.
Does there have to be wall to wall coverage? Is it that sad and pathetic people care more about someone who died, than what’s really going on in our country?
I watched USA network all morning long in protest to the funeral coverage.
I agree, it has been overkill. Paul Newman gave millions and millions to charity and his family kept it dignified and private. MJ reportedly didn’t want his family in his affairs, and this big hoopla with them taking over would have embarrassed him. It’s all about the money, baby.
All I could think of watching portions of the memorial is that MJ spent his entire life trying to escape his blackness–never more prominent when you see his kids among all the black relations. And now Sharpton and Jackson are trying to make MJ into another Martin Luther King. There was no reason for all the networks plus cable to air this.
And for all the hysteria about millions showing up in LA for the memorial, barely 1000 were outside the Staples Center.
I wasn’t a fan, but I’m no hater. I just can’t figure out how he went from “the self-proclaimed King of Pop” to just “the King of Pop”? Is he the “King of Pop” just because his publicists said he was so many times?
Can’t agree more – enough already.
bet u most of those ppl who spoke hadnt spoken to mj in 20 years
Totally agree, Nikki.
Funny but terribly (deliciously) bitter video that comedian Jon Lajoie made last week about the same thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVACUjHn6yU
Here here, Ms. Fink. I having a feeling this isn’t the last of it either. There’s going to be the tribute albums, the one year memorial, and the nonstop coverage for the next decade of his kids. It’s sad that we eat it up so easily.
ah, poor nikki…..
bitter and tactless aren’t we?
you’ll never admit that you also had the jehri curl hairdo with tight pants and sparkle glove in the 80’s like everyone else, you’re not above it. i’m sure that you secretly had his poster on your wall…
i guess we’ll make sure to remember that sentiment when you go teets up one day and all we have to give in remembrance is this blog….
don’t be bitter that stevie wonder won’t be singing for you and give props to the guy as they are surely due….
if you truly are ‘above’ the overhyped media, than do it with some grace instead of misplaced snarky attitude.
C’mon people, he’s not even dead. When are you all going to catch on? I saw him getting coffee in Toluca Lake just this morning, which leads me to believe that, like Elvis and Tupac, he’s pulling a Houdini. Gets him out of the limelight and frees him to enjoy his retirement. Good for him!
Well at least it’s over and we can get on with our lives.
I didn’t watch a minute of the memorial service, I’ve avoided as many articles as possible on the subject so as not to drive up the popularity of MJ articles, and I am getting sick and tired of hearing his music in every restaurant or mall I walk in to.
I never liked “it,” since I’m not really sure what Michael Jackson was in the end… he was more artificial than real.. doped up all the time, and a shadow of his former stardom.
Good riddance.
if only we united like this over the death of real humanitarians. yea ok mourn the guy but the wall to wall coverage the last 10 days is sickening and unnecessary. If you only were this “united” when Bush was in power and over waterboarding or the banks/CEO’s sucking up all our money or when Mother Teresa died…or about hunger, and poverty…MJ was a great musician but there are other people and events deserving more airtime and your undivided attention and concern.
Yes, Nikki–and well said, Vince.
The overwrought distortion is just outrageous. Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr. he was not. Frankly, he wasn’t even Stevie Wonder or Prince.
Wow…you are truly cold hearted. That memorial service was touching, real, and perfect. Your cynicism at this VERY moment is telling. Pathetic.
HERE’S A BRILLIANT LETTER FROM A FRIEND AT DISNEY THAT EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US SHOULD SEND TO OUR CRIMINALLY STUPID “MAYOR” WHO DARED TO ASK US TO PAY FOR THIS VULGAR PAGEANT:
Mr. Mayor -
Welcome back.
With all due respect, suggesting that LA taxpayers donate to the event that is going on right now at Staples Center is both insulting to your constituents and an embarrassment to your office. AEG – operators of the Staples Center – stand to make a tremendous amount of money on this event as well as on ancillary sales surrounding the profiteering of Mr. Jackson’s death. The suggestion that the City of Los Angeles is making money due to an influx of mourners filling hotels and restaurants is ludicrous – participants are far below the anticipated numbers, and the City would only reap their 10% tax on any spend.
As a homeowner who is taxed to death and watching her lawn die and checking off the list as services are cut daily, I’m stunned at the suggestion that I pay for this delightful event and the services it’s draining from our human and financial resources.
Thank you for your consideration and best of luck with your new term.
Good to have you focused locally.
Yes, yes, yes, completely agree this is wrong! AND to think we are in a city of financial turmoil where people are receiving i.o.u. as payments and Jan Perry, the councilperson responsible for the area pushes this spectacle through. Jan Perry has gone on record as saying she “love it” if the Jackson family would help pay the costs.
Shame on Perry and the Mayor for allowing this. If the Jackson family wanted a public memorial than pay for it or charge for the tickets to compensate the City of Los Angeles. The LAKERS who provide revenue to our city paid for their own parade….
I’m sad about Michael Jackson and what happened to him. Not just his death the other day, but what he morphed into years ago.
Yes, he was the first “BLACK” singer to get rotation on MTV. He broke down walls for other black artist. But… it was the head of his record company Walter Yetnikoff(spelling?) threatning to yank his other rock acts videos off if they didn’t play Michael that got him on MTV.
Not enough is said about that.
Totally agree.
an “Orgy of Excess”…. yes I borrowed that quote, but it’s soo appropriate.
Hello, what got the man to the Staples Center in a coffin.. DRUGS… let us not forget that.
I want to throw up, both from the media elevating him and demonizing him. He just doesn’t warrant wall-to-wall coverage with no commercials or breaks to other news whatsoever.
Can’t we talk about Afghanistan? Or anything else, really?
Wow Nikki, God forbid we celebrate a man who helped bridge the racial divide, who donated more to charity than any other pop star in the history of music, who sold more than any other entertainer we have seen and who was found innocent by a jury of mostly white people. Let’s just continue to write captions for people like Sacha Barren Cohen and Judd Apatow because they are what’s really important. How dare you take some higher ground with you and your little WME cartoons. You sound insane and offensive!!
I agree. Thanks for saying it! When I turned on ESPN News to escape the coverage and they were showing it too, I knew it had gone too far….
I don’t think there’s really anything wrong with the retrospectives and tributes. It’s human nature to avoid thinking or speaking ill of the dead. In light of the nature of Jackson’s fairly rabid global fan base it should come as no surprise that memorials to him would be extravagant and possibly bombastic. That said, the non-stop saturation coverage is a bit much. It’s as unnecessary as the extensive Swine Flu coverage was when that story first broke. A better balance could have and perhaps should have been struck.
No need to let it ruffle your feathers, though, Nikki dear. Simmer down a bit. It’ll all be over soon.
Sick to death of the coverage and disgusted that AEG and the Jackson paid not one penny for it and the city just kept referring to Los Angeles as “a world class city and a world class event”.
Not one journalist is talking about that.
Let’s move on now so I can forget we paid for it.
I never in my life thought I’d agree with Donny Deutsch–he’s on MSNBC right now– but he just said he thought this whole circus revealed how the country had lost its way. It’s absolutely disgusting. All the networks (except PBS) should be ashamed of themselves!
Hey Nikki-
So you wanna be startin’ somethin?
You are contributing to the misinformation being spread by hysterics out there. The actual cost to the city has been exaggerated and is closer to a million dollars. Meanwhile, tens of thousands is being spent on hotel rooms, food, car rentals, plane fare etc.
Is it reasonable to say 20,000 people flew in for this? Is it reasonable to say they spent about $1000 each on the above items?
The tax on hotel rooms is 14%
The tax on restaurants, etc is 9 3/4%
Let’s say the overall tax is an average 12%.
SO, that’s about $120 per person.
120 times the 20K people is just under $2.5 million in additional revenue. That’s just the out-of-towners. I am sure money is being spent in other ways by tens of thousands of people in town.
So the idea that the city is “losing money” in all of this is absurd.
Instead of being so critical, why not acknowledge the fact that for many (me not so much–i just realized I don’t have one MJ song in a library of over 10000 songs) MJ was a monumental source of inspiration. A city is not just roads and buildings. A city is a community and for a large number of people in this community this is a day of mourning. Great cities should provide an outlet for their people to come together. Instead of damning this, I see it as L.A. doing the right thing as a world class city. (And making a little money in the process!)
As for media coverage, I suppose it will be covered as long as it makes financial sense for them to do so.
As far as the editorial slant. Let’s face it, he was undoubtedly an unusual guy. But his contribution to the world of entertainment is without peer, particularly from the early 80’s thru the early 90’s.
So, if you are sick of it all, turn off the tv and do something more productive with your time.
Nikki-
I thought you weren’t going to talk about MJ. You are being hypocritical. Let those who choose to mourn for him do so. You are part of the media so attempting to be above it all is laughable. You are just as much a part of the machine as the rest of them. Its over now so just let people grieve. No need to be rude.
I have been saying this since I learned of this death last week! I will not argue that the man in his own right touch many people (no pun intended) and that his music is the stuff of legend!! But, It’s all to much, and the fact that the nearly bankrupt State of California is footing the bill!! (i.e.. The TAXPAYERS!/You and Me) is completely out of line. Further embarrassing is the Mayor had the audacity to ask the public to chip in!!! Unbelievable! They should have charged $$ to attend his service if that was the case, because lets face it this is all about the $$, ratings, appearances, and networking anyway! What a Joke! The only real thing about any of this was dear Paris Jackson and the nanoseconds of emotion she displayed, and the sad part about it all is that the media exploited the only true innocent emotion over and over again. Its sick!! But predictable this is Michael Jackson were talking about here!
MJ created his legal and financial troubles. If anything, address his parasitic family rather than the questionable “celebrities” who showed up at this odious spectacle. They’re going to be milking this for a long time. Or address the unfathomable and ongoing fiscal irresponsibility of government for fleecing taxpayers for this circus. How long until the dvd’s and posters are shilled to the international moron community? Most people are revolted by and totally uninterested in this spectacle. The nattering talking MSM heads need to fill air time and make it seem more relevant than it is.
Your radio silence on this was welcome. Articles about MJ decrying articles about MJ are ironic. It’s beneath you to try to provoke page views because of a quiet week. If anything, do an obit on Farrah who suffered and died like nobody should, and who was a surprisingly interesting woman whose passing got sidelined by the MJ menagerie.
Nothing funnier than the post above, from someone who says she’s black, stating she’s “never been prouder.” Honey…he hated his skin color. He tried to look white with extensive plastic surgery and skin bleaching. And let’s face it: most of his friends were white celebrities…particularly if they were young boys. Six months ago if you said, “Michael Jackson,” the common response would have been, “washed-up pedophile.”
Today? Resurrected genius, finally generating some much needed revenue again. Sickening.
you are absolutely right –
he made two great albums and walked backwards.
Most disgusting of all was Deepak Chopra, his son Gotham and daughter Mallika. They are the epitome of phony hollywood “friends” by giving away Michael’s confidences, outing the Nanny, and speaking of all the “enablers” around him, without considering himself one to be as well, despite his best efforts or “intentions”. His comments were vile, disgusting and went against his own teachings in his best selling books. Additionally, Chopra is an MD and last I checked, had an OBLIGATION to report anyone to the AMA that might be in violation of patient/doctor ethics laws. Mallika, the daughter, then writes a HuffingtonPost blog about the “bloodsuckers” of hollywood. (Just a month earlier the families other “friend” and cause du jour was Laura Ling, a journalist detained in NK….the Chopras are nothing but bunch of parasites!)
Michael Jackson’s death is bigger than 99% of the news you’ve ever covered. Ooh, did Charlize Theron get an agent? Did a studio head step down just as you “toldjus” he would? Did some movie break a Wednesday box office record?
Come on, be real. Michael Jackson has had a long illustrious career and has reached millions through song, dance, and charitable contributions. He is and was a legend, so his passing is a big deal.
Don’t remember you being so irritated when Heath Ledger died…
Food for thought: if Brittany Spears had died during her crazy-streak, would there be this much adulation?
Keep in mind that she was never accused of child-rape, never mutilated her own face, and wasn’t quoted to be an anti-Semite*.
*http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4466038.stm
I second third and fourth that. It’s all too much. I stopped watching on day 2
Just how big is the carbon footprint in the land of the PC?
And who is paying for it?
Why are people whining about the media coverage?,bet every one who is whining some time in their life has bought a mj single or has been awed by his talent.
How is it a shameless exploitation of readers and ratings when he is one of the most famous artists in the history of entertainment?
The media did not feed us this,There is a genuine interest in this man’s career everyone has been talking about it because of WHO HE IS AND WHAT HE HAS ACHIEVED…Not because of the press throwing it at us!
Too much bitterness… in this world.
You took the words right out of my mouth Nikki. Thank you.
I could not agree more. Nikki has not made a single posting since his death and after 10 days, this is what has been on the minds of all people who think this has gone too far. While MJ was an icon whose music “defined pop music”, I can’t understand why this need to drag on for 10 days. Please let it go!
I agree completely Nikki! Get over it people! It’s not like he was your best friend. And guess what, your CDs will not magically stop playing just because he’s dead. People die, that’s how it works. Move on.
Jealous that you were not invited?
The memorial was beautiful. Very well put together & extremely fitting for one of the world’s greatest musicians.