Michael Jackson is dead...what? you didn't know?

It's no surprise really that the media is hyping this up so much. And yet people seem surprised and annoyed by how much attention MJ is getting for dying. Actually, I'd say people are more annoyed with the tone the multitude of stories are taking. Almost everything is mournful with an oh-MJ-you'll-be-missed-so-much kind of tone. These annoyed people like to think they are clever by calling the media out on the bluff, pointing to the fact that in recent years, the same journalists were attacking him for being a weird, semi white, semi black, semi male, semi female, baby hanging, delicate nosed, pedophile.

While this is very true, I'd like to point out that the reason the media is taking this tone is because Michael Jackson was once loved by nearly everybody. He was revolutionary in his career. He was the king of pop! The way he's been for the past decade or so (really, the entire time I've been conscious of him...wasn't around when he was making good music) was ruining the way people wanted him to be. They want the Jackson 5 and Thriller.

So, it makes total sense that now he's finally out of the way, we can go on remembering him the way we want him to be instead of who he really was.