144,000: i like many of your posts too. i found them to be very intelligent. i actually am your follower. you are more liked than you know. :cheeky:
back on topic, we all know deep in our hearts that no one but michael jackson is more beloved by people all over the world. elvis and the beatles are big in the western world. but, michael can unite people of different cultures. my mother, who is 63 year-old, does not speak english. she doesn't listen to pop music. but, she responds to michael. she enjoys watching his concerts and listening to his ballads. she doesn't understand any single word but she feels the emotion. that's the power and magic of michael.
michael's music has uncanny ability to touch people's hearts. that's why it sold so many records and keeps selling.
the media (at least the media in the U.S.) will never give michael his due credit. but, i don't need the media to tell me who's the most successful and best selling. i know who he is. his name is michael jackson.
thanks so much. it warms my heart what you say. ***hugs*** to you people
yeah..and your post..right on target.
i know people would love to say, 'well sure...you MJ fanatics..like we're supposed to go by your emotional attachment and no facts?'
well..normally, on most subjects, people might have a point. but not here. Because Michael embodies qualities that are no threat to any of his fans. and i don't just mean the fans that peers consider to be untouchable..but people that are downtrodden. a downtrodden person might feel scared to meet Elvis Presley, or John Lennon, or Paul McCartney. I saw Paul, once, and how high brow he acted around a fellow producer. How in the world would a downtrodden person feel trying to meet him??
Michael has qualities that represent people that feel like they could never be good enough to meet anyone of any real stature. There are so many of those people in this world. soooo many. And I would venture that Michael is the first artist they truly fell in love with. Because he is them. He represents the insecurity in all of us, better than any other artist, ever before. Other artists just feel like they don't have those qualities. It feels like they're abit above us, which is why we are so shocked if they have problems. But when Michael had trials, it's almost as if we knew he was vulnerable. Not because we thought he was a bad guy..cus we didn't think that...but because he had a vulnerable nature about him. So, that is what makes emotion become evidence, for the first time. Evidence that Michael is the best seller of all time.
Now, when he escaped so many traps, that was just the quality of magic. He had the uncanny ability to mix vulnerability with magic, without seeming above us. But when he died, the way we related to his vulnerability was truly summed up, with what one fan said of people that hate him. 'If you don't like Michael Jackson, you probably don't like puppies or kittens, either'.
You're not going to say that about any other artist, no matter how much you love them. you may grieve greatly, but you're not going to make that kind of comparison with other major known artists. We are all that helpless child. so we all bought his music.
And again, there is that MAGIC. nobody escapes magic. magic makes you buy what you otherwise would not buy, even if you hate him. No other artist had that MAGIC, but Michael. We saw how people reacted every time he went outside. And that includes people who said they would not react that way, because i've seen it in action. you don't have control over that magic. enough people who humbled themselves for a moment enough to say it, have spoken strongly of his 'charisma'. that's the magic. his 'aura'. that's the magic. that's why there are some people who buy the music, or attended the concerts...then, criticized him. If he didn't have the magic, then they would have criticized him, and not buy the music, and not attend the concert. And, of course, not flock passionately to him, when he went outside. It's a no brainer that all those things go hand in hand. flock him, buy the music, attend the concert. IF there is magic. that puppy kitten magic connection, by the way, makes people want to own a piece of him. and the many 'fanatics' actually WANT to buy his music, because they care about doing it right. then there's that little matter about, for the most part, people being detached to other artists, and are to the point where they prefer to illegally download. so...lol....the industry can't go about lying, and saying that all these other artists, sell above Michael, then, in the same breath, as indicated in another thread, just now put in this section...complain about the decline of the industry, and blame it on the consumers pirating music. it's either one or the other, so...gotcha, anti Michael Jackson stats people, in the industry.
