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It’s impossible to say anything original about Michael Jackson, so I won’t even try. As a celebrity and a media presence, for so much of his life, he cannot be extricated from all the words and images and sounds that he generated, or that were (and still are being) generated about him. Just as we cannot separate his music and performance from his persona, from all the allegations and scandals and media frenzies of his later years, so we cannot separate the “real” Michael Jackson from everything that has been thought and written and spoken and speculated about him. So, I can’t write about him without quoting what other people have already written about him, both now just after his death, and over the years before…Pinocchio Theory responding to “The Freak of Consensual Sentimentality,” by Greil Marcus in k-punk
I just read a powerful article about Michael Jackson at http://www.ebmpublishing.com. The article was wonderfully written and showed a different side of him. It discussed his amazing rise from the grim streets of Indiana to international stardom. It’s an engaging, thought provoking article that gave me a new found level of respect for him as a man and artist. The article is located on the home page in the departments section under Hitman.