TheChosenOne
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Quite by chance, I ended up at the Rolling Stone website and clicked on their 500 greatest albums of all time. Curious, I checked to see what MJ albums would have been placed and where.
You can check it out here: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-19691231
I have no issue with the albums that they chose and where they placed. As far as I am concerned our taste in music is subjective. So I say 'whatever'.
What TRULY galled me was the unnecessary swipes at Michael. The last sentence in OTW referred to Michael as a 'national punchline'. For Thriller the last sentence talked about his excessive egomania.
That got my blood pumping in fury. Mind you, it does not take much these days.
I stepped back and I thought 'well maybe they made snide comments about other artists and their work'. And I made a RANDOM check of over 50 albums (including Madonna, Whitney Houston, Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, the Eurthymics). And there was not a single disparaging remark about anyone. Not a one.
I am not a fan of people who get paranoid and think everything is a conspiracy. But there is a reason why the media must continue to degrade Michael Jackson's legacy. Why best-selling investigative author Aphrodite Jones could not get her book published. Why the bodyguards cannot get their book published. Why Rivera talked about how he had never received so much pressure at work as when he defended Michael during the 2005 trial.
It is this kind of insidious thing that our media advocacy team works tirelessly to combat. Ultimately, everyone is not going to love Michael. We might want to them to, but they won't. What needs to happen is that people respect him as a human being and as an artist.
You can check it out here: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-19691231
I have no issue with the albums that they chose and where they placed. As far as I am concerned our taste in music is subjective. So I say 'whatever'.
What TRULY galled me was the unnecessary swipes at Michael. The last sentence in OTW referred to Michael as a 'national punchline'. For Thriller the last sentence talked about his excessive egomania.
That got my blood pumping in fury. Mind you, it does not take much these days.
I stepped back and I thought 'well maybe they made snide comments about other artists and their work'. And I made a RANDOM check of over 50 albums (including Madonna, Whitney Houston, Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, the Eurthymics). And there was not a single disparaging remark about anyone. Not a one.
I am not a fan of people who get paranoid and think everything is a conspiracy. But there is a reason why the media must continue to degrade Michael Jackson's legacy. Why best-selling investigative author Aphrodite Jones could not get her book published. Why the bodyguards cannot get their book published. Why Rivera talked about how he had never received so much pressure at work as when he defended Michael during the 2005 trial.
It is this kind of insidious thing that our media advocacy team works tirelessly to combat. Ultimately, everyone is not going to love Michael. We might want to them to, but they won't. What needs to happen is that people respect him as a human being and as an artist.