Methinks the hullabaloo over Jackson's life & death is a bit overwrought. Yet was there this much negativity when Elvis died from a drug overdose? Whatever you think now about MJ his legend will only grow while you sad, pathetic, backbiting bitch of an ass-wipe "reporter"from of all rags the NY Post will long, long be forgotten.
I remember when Elvis died. Yes, there was the same exact type of publicity as i remember it. A lot of positive (the music, the performing), a lot of negative (drugs, weird lifestyle). In fact, it's like living through a real-life deja vu. Wait till you see the commercialization of MJ's death. If it's anything like Elvis, you ain't seen nothing yet!
One difference is that now, there's more media, namely the internet. But other than that, it's a weird replay of 1977.
Another difference is that Elvis, though not as famous as the 50's by time of his death, still had a good career going. He was slated to perform that day, i believe. In MJ's case, there were plans for a "comeback".
The rumble goes down on the sidewalk in front of Langan's on 47th Street, the Post scribes' favored drinkery. Aquilante will come with just his righteous indignation and a variety of annoying colored wristbands in support of world suffering hovering above his open hands, as he will be expecting a slap fight. The Peys will arrive with brass knuckles and her posse of flat-ass bitches in mom jeans to hold her gold. Peys will approach Aquilante and utter, "You're a fucking hack and not fit to kiss Robert Palmer's wrinkly, dead nutsack," and he'll break down crying. Game, match. Peys takes her posse out to eat at the Olive Garden in Times Square. The end.
@QueenieAngelfish: I think HIStory, maybe the weirdest album ever made, sold 20 million worldwide. It was a double album, so MJ used to try to claim it was 40 million.
@snugbug: MJ was an admitted addict, and the drugs he was taking stay in your system for years (I know, because I used to take some of the same drugs for pain). I don't think it's a leap to assume he had drugs in his system when he died, whether it killed him or not.
@xhack: Never mind that giving up Bubbles when he reached adulthood was the responsible thing to do. Does no one remember that awful chimp attack from earlier this year? Bubbles apparently has a very nice life at a private ape sanctuary.
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Immediately.
It's no longer appropriate.
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I don't see how being alive or dead has anything to do with the appropriateness of a nickname.
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I remember when Elvis died. Yes, there was the same exact type of publicity as i remember it. A lot of positive (the music, the performing), a lot of negative (drugs, weird lifestyle). In fact, it's like living through a real-life deja vu. Wait till you see the commercialization of MJ's death. If it's anything like Elvis, you ain't seen nothing yet!
One difference is that now, there's more media, namely the internet. But other than that, it's a weird replay of 1977.
Another difference is that Elvis, though not as famous as the 50's by time of his death, still had a good career going. He was slated to perform that day, i believe. In MJ's case, there were plans for a "comeback".
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He's gone. It's over. Just let it be.
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I applaud her ability to teleport herself into the future and peep the results of those yet-to-be done toxicology reports.
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Andrea! I just met a girl named Andrea!
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