(sigh)
I feel like I've missed out on A LOT because I was born in '91.
I really didn't get to appreciate Michael until I had a mind of my own and stop following the popular mainstream songs...
I often wished I was alive during MJ mania. It would have been so cool to live in a time when the majority LOVES Michael like me. Not only that, I would have seen first hand the hysteria, the videos, the masterpieces... :sad:
I have read many many newspaper clips, articles, and tv clips during this time and it makes me wish even more to have witness this era first hand.
It really was such a great time to be a Michael Jackson fan. You would have so loved it. Especially since Michael Jackson haters were practically unheard of back then. Everyone just loved Michael and you were consider cool to be a Michael Jackson fan. It was totally unlike what it is now. If you are an MJ fan. It really was such an amazing time back then. A time that I so badly wish I could relive again.
WWWWOOOOWW!!!
This Michael mania was really something EXCELLENT!! It made me feel all the love, the wild passion of those days. Woww... that must have been great, wonderful, exciting!! Did you see those kids? and the girls?? But not only them, it was EVERYBODY!! And I have even learned new stuff about MJ, especially about the Victoy tour which for me remains a biiiggg unknown issue I need to know more about.
Thank you so much for sharing!!!!
But did you see?? Early flash mobs even then!!! LOL
The PYTs were early trend setters
(see the video, please!)
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I really loved this and I loved to have for once this wonderful feeling of back on those days.... it as a Thriller!!!!
Your very welcome. I thought that video would be so perfect for the topic. It still makes me wonder if the PYTs are still Michael Jackson fans now. As well as all of the other kids that was in that program. I knew when I became a MJ fan in the early 80s I will be a fan for life. Except now I love Michael more now than I ever did before.
QUOTE=PrincessMichaela;2434885]I am totally there with you all. I was born the day that "Man in the Mirror" was released
D) ...which sometimes weirds me out when I think about it too much, because
1) To a certain extent, I feel like I was there because I know more than a lot of people who actually
were there. =P
2) Michael seems so...ageless. I think of him in terms of years/eras, not ages. It's always "Bad era Michael" or "Invincible Michael", never "29 year old Michael" or "43 year old Michael" LoL. If you gave me an age and asked me to coordinate it with an event in his life or something, I'd almost have to do the math, LoL. I just don't
ever think of him as having an age. (Except 50. I do have a concept of 50, but I think only because there's been so much talk of that number this year, for so many reasons...)
But my dad was born 7 months after Michael and I envy him
so much because of that. I can't even fathom what a crazy rollercoaster ride it must have been to grow up alongside Michael, to be there for the whole ride, on the same level as him. He remembers J5 and how awesome it was that this megastar kid was the same age as him and he remembers, as a young guy, how
cool Off the Wall was, etc, etc, etc....all the way up until when he passed and how weird it was for him because Michael had always been in his life, they'd gone through every era
together and for that to be over now... I can only imagine. =( God, what I wouldn't give for that experience. Man.
It doesn't feel fair because, first of all, the world lost him way way way too soon, but second, us 80s/90s babies
really lost him too soon. I mean, we spent 15-25 years with him in our lives, but that's not the same as living through the golden eras and experiencing the whole world
in love with Michael. =( or watching him grow and evolve and watching his career just explode. For as long as we've known him he's been the most famous person on the planet as well as the most controversial. :no:
I feel privileged to have walked the same earth and been in the same world (and room! LoL.) at the same time as Michael, but I hope you all who were born prior to 70 or 75 know JUST how
lucky you are to have the 40+ years worth of truly extraordinary experiences and memories that you have.
(Sorry so long...=P)[/QUOTE]
I agree with you.
this has made me feel so sad but also comforted because me and my mother have talked alot about this lately. I was born in 81 and have some 80s mania memories. I have video footage of myself on my mum's 21st b-day party hiding behind her skirt when everyone was dancing to Thriller because I was scared of Vincent Prices' voice. I remember the long hot hazy Bad mania summer when an MJ Bad tape in your cassette player was as natural to have as we all have mobile phones now. If you had one you were cool. The market stalls were full of pin badges and scarfs and Lookin' magazine (and Smash Hits) had a regular poster; they were so regular you took it for granted. I remember on 'wet break' and end of term treats at school our teacher would go to the Ritz video store and pick up 3 videos for us to choose...The Goonies, Neverending Story and Moonwalker...there was a big vote and Moonwalker would win because the boys liked the bit where MJ turns into a car and the girls loved Michael. I remember Dangerous coming out and all of a sudden basketball was cool in the playground (Jam video) and Bart Simpson wore an MJ t-shirt. Heal the World was my big awakening to global issues at 10 yrs old.
My mum was born in 63 and when MJ passed it shook her world cos he had always been there. Her Michael was this amazing genius but beautiful boy who she got to see on TOTP (Top of the Pops)..again as others said it was a different media world - you had to be a lot more patient. My mum said one of the outstanding things about J5 / Jacksons and even OTW MJ was that there WAS a colour barrier (even in the UK) - she tol me that J5 got in all the teen mags - they were the only black icons in those mags and it was the rebel white teen girl who admitted they fancied the group / individual member as there was this unspoken colour barrier. My mum remembers when OTW came out (she was late teens) MJ was breaking those barriers down as the fresh, classy disco music was too good for everyone to deny and this was around the time when colour become less of an issue - MJ helped this because he was so incredible in every way - ignorance and fear werent strong enough to beat 'the force' to quote the song. Thriller is remembered by my mum as the time when everyone would stay in (like we do for the XFactor final) because Thriller was goin to be shown on one of the 3 channels. Michael was a dream pin up with the Llama or Bubbles - a kind of disney / cant do no wrong prince hero, full of innocence and magic.
Post 1993 was a different world for MJ fans. We had little, fragmented magic moments like HIStory statue floating, Earth Song xmas no.1, the HIStory tour,Brit Awards 96, WMA 96/97?, Oxford speech, MJ and Friends concerts all the video releases..GHOSTS was amazing and I dont think it has enough coverage or even discussions by fans...the MJ Sony demo in London 2001/2?, , All incredible. Despite these moments 93' was the end of the bubble burst and MJ was persecuted for the rest of his life by the evil media we all live with. When we have had time to get perspective on this terrible crime I am sure we will be able to get justice for Michael..sadly at the moment we are still living through it.
I have one thing to say to fans of the 1990s / 00s - you are the most remarkable and be proud of your independent minds, faith and courage..especially if you were in school when you became a fan...it will be your generation of fans that has the privilage of keeping Michael's legacy alive and will live your lives alongside his beautiful children. See that as your mission and you wont feel depressed about not getting to live through the 70s and 80s.
L.O.V.E XX
I totally agree with you. Which is why I seriously need to get my 2 little nephews started on loving Michael Jackson. And see him the way us fans see Michael. Not the way the media would see Michael as.
