LY, friend :cheeky:
ok... If we give him credit for that, I just ask myself.... Why this world has only ONE King of Pop, Music?
I mean he was not the only child in the family. Just wondered.....
Much of the credit belongs to Michael Jackson. Yes he is the only one that took the education to heart and ran with it. He made beyond the best of his situation.
Upon not being satisfied at the level his brothers remained satisfied...he made something beyond wonderful of himself.
But think for one second...Its alot easier to accomplish your dreams when they are at first supported and nurtured, in a sense.
Imagine how much harder it would have been for someone like MJ to have made it into the music industry without knowing all the ropes, especially in a time of extreme racism?
Remember this isn't our new and seemingly accepting generation of today, but the generation of that time who beat a black school girl simply because she wanted quality education she was being restricted from.
Don't you think that there are some very talented people whom you'll never hear about because they had no one to encourage their potential? Do you Know that?
Some people live with the fact that they could have been something big sharing their talent with the world yet their parents or people close to them shot their dreams down?
These people don't go unto American Idol and make a mockery of themselves...They just live with the fact that they'll never live their dream out.
I remember listening to Steve Harvey's segment once, once when he mentioned that he was in Ohio listening to the radio as he heard a white commentator say that the Osmonds are better than the Jacksons, because their WHITE. (Segment is on Youtube if you wish to find it. A rebuttal to Bill O Reilly).
Yes, that is why I believe that in order to make it. The Jacksons didn't just have to perform. But perform their hearts out. Something that as a black girl, my mother's always said, whatever you do , do it better than the white man, granted I never got it as bad as MJ did...but I am at the top of my class because of the strict and disciplinary ways about my mother. I used to always think what a cold woman! She hardly ever said I Love you like I'd seen the normal kids parents do all the time. But now to see where I'm at, I thank her so much for not letting me be average , but above average.
Heres a thought...
Who knew that just to hear the angelic voice of a 12 year old required so much pain and suffering?
There was a young mexican or spaniard singer I believe who went by the name Roselito. As a young child, just like MJ, I think he strained too hard.
but who requested more and more from them?
People should have said, Wait! This child is performing for me but at what cost?
Is he going to a normal school to get the schooling that a child really needs?
Wow! He dances and sings so well...I wonder how much of his playtime his rehearsing takes up?
Joe's at fault, but
who else , as terrell asked before?
At the end of the day...Everyone wanted something from MJ and he was glad to give it.
The Family might have wanted income, media wanted his reputation and stature, we wanted his music.
Kinda sucks to see how much he really had to pay for all that.
Poor MJ.