there is a difference. i saw the elvis special on tv..his last performance, before he started to gain weight. nobody rushed the stage. he knew he could perform in an 'unplugged' setting, because of that. that's why people say he invented the 'unplugged' concert.
with Michael, there was NO way, he could do an 'unplugged' performance, in that kind of an intimate setting, and get away without being stagerushed. right up to his very last outdoor appearance/attempt to walk the streets, MJ was treated like he was, from the very beginning. he was mobbed.
so i humbly suggest, that if you are gauging MJ's popularity, by the hate that he received from the haters and the media, you are letting that determine the scale of his megastar status. and the two don't relate. (in fact, the hate came because the haters couldn't quash his megastar status. i bet that, if MJ's mega status diminished in any way, there would have been less hate, expressed outwardly, because the haters would think that his mega status diminished.) and you aren't realizing just how big MJ was..and still is. he was bigger than death could ever make anyone. it's just that some get fooled into not thinking that, because, with the hate, added, they somehow think that diminishes the fan frenzy, from all over the world. and, naturally, all those fans kept buying his music.
i DO no how big michael jackson was!!!
im not stupid!!!
i have been a fan for YEARSS!!!
AND I DONT CARE WHAT PEOPLE BLOODY WELL SAY I NO IM RIGHT!!
Michael jackson he was always the greatest star on the planet.
BUT before he died most people called me a you no what (p***)
most people wouldnt listin to him because hes a you no what^^
(well he wasnt but they all thought so)
and thats the truth, those stupid alegations ruined him.
but he then annouced the concerts a few more people started getting into him.
The WHOLE world was sooo excited about it.
then he dies and everyone is in mournin
yet most people were calling him a **** before.
and know you say Michael jackson people say legend not p***
its ashame that it was his death that got people loving him again.
im just thankful he died then and not before, if he died just after the trails that would break my heart even more.
but like he says in his quote
"If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with."
soo he died knowing he sold out 50 concerts soooo at least he knew he was defo loved.
but anyway bit off topic.
DEFO the best thing to happen like to make people all go crazy over MJ again.
i dont like the fraze his greatest comeback tho