Michael Jackson

I thought it was about time I dedicated a blog to the King Of Pop: Michael Jackson. Although he died just under two months ago, I am doing one now because a) I have only just started blogging very recently and b) I'm going through another phase of listening to his music at least once everyday, like right now for instance: Come Together.

I saw an advert for The Beatles on playstation of some sort; a singing game and Come Together was the soundtrack by The Beatles and I thought to myself, that is an MJ track and for the life of me, I could not remember what the song was called! So, I listened to the lyrics again and again whenever I was watching TV and the advert came on and finally I typed it into youtube and oila, I have Come Together (now also in my Favourites list).

So, this leads me to the sudden need of writing a blog about the King of Pop.

I first remember watching Michael Jackson's video for Black & White in my neighbours house when I was about six or seven years old and I have loved him since then. He is ultamitely the musical genious of probably, any generation. There will be no-one like him in my lifetime. After that, I used to ask my Dad to buy me old copies of CDs from car boot sales. He got me books and posters aswell and I was turning into an avid fan, reading anything in the news about him.

I got my first proper source of him from my godmother when she was having a clear out. She gave me three of his albums: Off The Wall (which I then lost), the obvious bestseller Thriller and Bad. I do not know how many times I listened to those albums - over and over and over again. Billie Jean was an obvious favourite and Thriller and Beat It. I used to listen to those tracks (4,5,6 I think, if my memory is correct) repeatedly. Dangerous was the next album and I became obsessed with his 90s music. It was so much more upbeat and modern and just fantastic. I just loved it all! Songs that are the favourite of the album have got to be In the Closet featuring Naomi Campbell and Who Is It? I think with Who Is It, it's the beginning bit with the harmony choir. I do not know why I like that, but I do. Actually, I used to have the Dangerous album on tape and I remember one time sitting on some grass right next to my house and thinking I was cool to listen to a bit of MJ on my cassette player. Invicible followed in the Christmas of 2002 when it came out and I saw it on the shelves of Woolworths which is no more either!

So, at different times, I became obsessed with different styles of his music and the love grew from there.

It was so weird a week before his death; I started becoming obsessed with his music again - the Invincible album mainly, his last album and 4music had a few shows about him. It was as if the world was getting ready for his departure although really it was for the upcoming This Is It tours that no-one was going to see.

A week later at roughly quarter to midnight, I was sitting in London's Hard Rock Cafe with my school as we were on a school trip when someone text my friend saying that Michael Jackson was dead. We didn't believe it, but, her friend confirmed it and so it became apparent to everyone that the King of Pop was dead.

The next morning it was all over the news and I stood watching the show reel of him growing up over and over. I didn't want to move. I was utterly depressed at that point in time. My parents rang and said they had cried.

So, that brings me to the present. I bought his biography and the two remaining CDs that I needed to complete the collection and took the collection to Tenerife. The entire complex were listening to MJ by the pool. And now I listen to a bit of MJ every day.

He is an icon and that really is it.