For better or worse Michael Jackson had a profound influence
on me growing up as a child. More so there is no pun intended. There are a lot
of negative things people to say about Michael Jackson, however, when I think
about the King of Pop, and what a hero he was to me growing up I see little
negativity. Recently there have rumors flying around cyber town about police
withholding child pornography which belonged to Michael Jackson. These
materials were said to have been found during the 2003 police raid of Michael
Jacksons Neverland Ranch. They were said to had been
found in a closet which contained many collectibles along with head shots of
young boys including Macaulay Culkin. Now before many of you try to dance the
moon walk around me, and tell me I told you so here me out. I heard that first
indication of this source leaked from a site called Radar Online which was obtained
by the Santa Barbra Sheriff’s department. I have looked through many different websites
obtaining this report the first one I saw was from VH1.com. I am hearing different
details from different sites of what exactly was obtained by the police. I do
not want to go into the details because they very disturbing. Radar Online did, however, confirm that the recent allegation
was twisted, and falsely reported by various internet media. These reports very
timed with the seven year anniversary of The King of Pops death. Recording the sources sited from radar online
the photos were not from any police files and they were taken from the
internet.
I have many questions myself about Michael Jackson. I never
met the man or knew the man. Like the billons upon billons, I only knew Michael Jackson as the world knew him. There
many things about Michael that fascinate both the spectacle and popular
imagination. But will we ever know any of the true answers? And will we ever know the answer to the one so many want
to know, but some are sure they already know?
Was Michael Jackson The King of Pop a child pedophile. Did his bizarre behavior and appearance give
proof to that very fact? Are the statements,
details, and money settlements enough for some to prove very question? We want
to know and we don’t at the same time. We don’t want to know because he was
such genies of an entertainer we don’t want to accept his flaws. Many intelligent
people have been brought down by the power of gluttony in some form or the
other. An intelligent person can tempted
for such petty things such food that’s clearly bad for you or drugs that can
clearly kill you. But to hurt a child is goes beyond any thinkable boundaries,
and we just accept Michael Jackson could do such a thing. We have the statements
from the parents, we have the details of the investigations, we know about the settlements
but what we don’t have to back this up is physical evidence. If he did do it I
am in no way saying it was right, these are
just not enough hard evidence to suggest he did it. If these is hard hitting physical
evidence that Michael Jackson harmed a child will it change the way I think
him, will let people who are sure say I told you so? I honestly don’t know but I am going to take the time to say
what I do know about Michael Jackson.
Michael
Jackson was my first introduction to the world of music, or what at the time
thought was rock n roll. I was obsessed with Michael Jackson throughout my
child hood but hung it up during my preteen and middle school years.
Backing this up a bit where did my knowledge of Michael Jackson come from? How
was I introduced to Michael Jackson and his music? My brothers and I first
discovered Michael Jackson from an episode of Alvin and Chipmunks. The segment featured
to a short montage of Smooth Criminal and Beat It. From there on my interest in
Michael Jackson began to grow, and I began to own several Michael Jackson video
tapes discovering who he was in many different ways as an entertainer, dancer, singer, film master and so forth. The
reason why I think I found Michael Jackson's videos so eye catching is Michael
Jackson thought the term video was just too ordinary
and preferred the term mini movie instead. So basically Michael Jackson's music
videos were literally shot, and even scripted as mini movies. My favorite
Michael Jackson videos were always, Thriller (no duh) Speed Demon, and Black or
White. Thriller was such a brilliantly done music video it made me think that
there was a real full length movie somewhere out there. It was when I got older
I began to realize there was no full length movie to Thriller, and that
Thriller was simply a music video. With how well done the Werewolf scene was,
and how great the zombie make up was I guess I just always thought there was
more to that video and what I saw was just a clip of a movie that was somewhere
out there. My second favorite Michael Jackson music video was speed demon
because the animation is just brilliant with the transformation into the bunny costume and the fantastically entertaining
motor cycle ride. My third favorite was probably Black or White which featured,
Macaulay Culkinan took Michael Jackson to various parts of the world. The Black
or White video was an extremely expensive video especially with the face
morphing at the end.
It
feels like every few or so years of my life Michael Jackson pops up for both
the better and worse, in my preteen years I totally gave on Michael Jackson
barely even thinking about him. Literally five years later once I entered high school Michael
Jackson was everywhere and mostly for the worse. It seemed like everything we
also regular people wondered and speculated about Michael Jackson was coming
into reality. I remember once he hung his baby off the balcony things just blew
up. First, it was with Living with
Michael Jackson special, and before you could even blink he was everywhere. You
do not go out to the super market without
seeing Michael Jackson in a magazine or newspaper or even turn on your
television. I
admit I made a joke about him, but I felt
very sorry for him during those years, and would make a great deal to stick up
for him. I just hated the media would rip him apart especially outlets like E
News live who were just cruel but not like they matter as news anyway. I
remember in class while finishing up High School hearing about how he was
acquitted of his charges.
Then four years
went by and nothing Michael Jackson seemed to fade away yet again. From 2005 to
about the time of death in 2009 I didn't hear one mention of Michael Jackson it
was all but quiet. For a weird stretch of reasons,
I did find out of Michael Jackson's death till a few hours after it happens'd. During the exact time, it was reported my TV had gone out, and I
had left my house with my dog to go on a hike. This was also before I had a
smart phone.
I found out three hours after it happens'd as I got home and turned on CNN to relax from my hike. No
one saw Michael Jackson's coming, or even how it could happened. It really brought the country together in shock and
remorse. That had no been musical death that shocking or unexpected since John
Lennon's assassination in 1980. Once again Michael Jackson was everywhere, and
the world was overload. I then began to realize how great his music was to me
growing up, and I began to buy his albums which were being rushes ordered by
many retail chains. I was in total mania over Michael Jackson as I began to buy
books DVD'S CD's, surf You Tube everything.
Michael Jackson was restored as a pop culture icon, but your
opinions are totally up to yourself. Through Michael Jackson you can learn many
things to preserve with confidence to pursue your dreams, to be a better humanitarian,
to take let your imagination sour in many ways ect. No entertainer will ever be
close to Michael Jackson, we only get entertainers like Elvis, The Beatles, Kurt
Cobain Tupac Shakur not once in a life time just once. There will never be
another Michael Jackson but we can choose
to look at both the bad and the good of Michael Jackson. While there is plenty
of bad with Michael Jackson I think many have to also realize there is plenty
of good.
