Just Beat It.

Three posts already and from only having this for less than one day! Well I've got something on my mind that I want to talk about. This morning I woke from my slumber and turned on the tv to the news which had some story about Michael Jackson. Constant news about the late MJ is getting on my nerves, because it seems everywhere I go (media wise) I run into some sort of headline about Jackson. Okay I'm not the biggest MJ fan, on occassion I'll bust out the Thriller dance for shitz and gigglez but thats it, other than that the only song of his that I can sing along to is that one he did in the Simpsons for Lisa's birthday. Other than that I am unphased by his absence.

It's not that I don't mind seeing his bleached face all over the screens, its the fact that the news sources aren't letting go of the fact that he is dead. They are reporting all these stories about how his last rehearesal was going along, how he was doing and the very morbid, tour of an empty Neverland Ranch. They even had one segement about the room where he had the cardiac arrest. Holy shit, in the words of G.O.B. "C'MON!" you know enough is enough. Surely these media giants can't grasp reality that a beloved music icon has died and are trying to show that he could still be alive, but hiding out in some other ranch. Do the words "rest in peace" apply to these people, apparently not. It's stuff like this that'll make people not want to become famous, if this sort of constant media whoreage comes with death, then death better come quick, while your young and ready. What I loved the most about the news of the death of MJ was on that day CNN and BBC where on constant "Jackson Watch" until the early hours of the morning while CBC had a 15 minute segment and then went onto a bigger issue of the Iranian protest, thanks CBC for reporting more news. You might begin to hate me by reading this but hear me out, I think it is a loss that music has lost such a strong icon, butttt he hadn't done anything spectacular for awhile, so really minus the concerts in London, not the biggest loss to the industry, I mean Tupac is dead, but somehow releasing music. The grieving is over for MJ, but I'm still grieving over Billy Mays.