I know what you mean and PLEASE !!! don't say that i don't understand NOTHING because i am from Africa , i think girl you need to leave your country just ONCE to know that there are another BIG places in this world than anglosaxon or western countries ok ?, i think you were too much brainwashed by the medias concerning Africa .
In Africa there are a lot of young people , a lot of people live like in western without denying their culture ok ?
We go to the cinema , we have televisions , washing machines , Clubs , parties , boys like dressing like black american rappers ,girl like dressing like black american rappers , there schools , universities , we know who Beyonce or Alycia Keys are , Tina Turner , and of course Elvis and the Beatles etc... so please don't speak like here in Africa we don't know nothing about the world just because you are brainwashed by medias' images .
Regarding the "respect " you are speaking about , why couldn't you just understand that if mj's fans think mj is bigger that's just because they REALY think that and not because they just want to be disrespectfull ,is it too difficult ??? .
I don't disrespect AT ALL Elvis or The Beatles , but I realy think MJ is bigger all over the world than them .
I say that just logicaly , by doing the maths :
The Beatles and Elvis are BIG in 4/5 continents
MJ is BIG in 5/5 continents , 3 rd in America is just HUGE to somebody who has been disrecting for years now , he has better place than all the artist still living like him (Madonna , Steve Wonder , etc...) and it is an AMERICAN poll .
Maybe you didn't know that there was a 5th continent called Africa , did you ?, where a lot of people live like you in Ireland or in America , i just want you stop to disrespecting this beautifull continent please .
i havent read all this comment because you cleary havent read a word of mine!
i did not say 'you dont understand anything',i said if you "misunderstood" or could not "understand" what im saying,that "i" could "understand" & i asked "what part of my comment you did not understand"?
i have traveled alot of the world.so for yourself here & perhaps anyone else that are clearly not seeming to be able to understand a word ive said including "no one is "bigger" then michael jackson, ive spent 1985-1987 living in america (miami) as a child,ive spent the last 20 years living between ireland & portugal because my father lives in portugal.in the last 8 years ive spent a year in australia,4 months living in new york,3 months in india,a month in new zealand,2 months in thailand,a week in burma,2 weeks in malaysia,ive been to germany a few times,hungrey,spain alot because its 2 hours from the algarve where my father lives,gibraltar,& gran canaria for 6 months,england to see my football team a few times.
i would say im pretty well traveled to be honest.& in most of those places (not all) ive found certainly beatles more than elvis items.im not a collector of any of them,just cds or records.
i only collect 3 artists of which elvis & beatles i don't.
but my "biggest" collection is my michael jackson collection that ive been collecting for 25 years.
anyways.im gonna have to leave this thread for real now because its such a waste of time having to constantly rehash & restate "THAT NOBODY IS BIGGER THAN MICHAEL JACKSON,BUT I COULD UNDERSTAND WHY ELVIS WOULD WIN A POLL LIKE THIS" not merely for his musical achievements which are "SMALLER THAN MICHAEL JACKSON" but because he was a patriot (which caries massive respect in your home country & anything against hittler is gonna earn you massive respect),he loved his mother,he loved his daughter,he died young with virtually no scandal other than his death,with his first pay-check he bought his mother a car,he was a christian & a million other qualities that people (mostly white working class middle aged & musicians like myself,like & identify with!
there is "no" conspiracy here & nobody trying to fool anybody thinking that elvis is bigger,better,whatever than michael jackson.that theory held by some here is a little OTT (over the top) to say the least.
please don't respond to this comment as it just seems to not go anywhere.im not fighting with you or anyone else here,but this thread is like banging my head against a brick wall.
& theres no need to quote this comment as i wont be responding.thanks,peace out.
& by the way,im not a girl,im a man & ive not at all been brain washed by anglosaxon theory's,white politics,propaganda or western culture.ive seen the world (not africa yet) but one day i hope to.im also irish & alot of us actually relate to african & jamaican culture & black culture because of the politics & history of our own country & because we've also come from slavery & the like.bob marley is my brothers hero & michael jackson is mine.both black men that have transcended white culture.
on that note ive simply nothing more to say here,because no matter what points i try to make,no matter how objective i try to be,its misunderstood,contradicted & words put into my mouth which i have not said.so good luck with it.
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