Phucking Hypocrites

Today, Michael Jackson died aged 50 years old. Arguably the most inspirational, influential and most talented individual to have walked this earth. As the day has gone on, I have grown increasingly frustrated at the way people are reacting to this news.

For years (15-20 perhaps?), 95% of the people I know and 100% of the media have attacked him, calling him everything under the sun – Paedo’, kiddy fiddler, freak, Wacko Jacko – He’s been called all of them. One of the main reasons for this is that the media feeds off the smoke generated from a silent fart and as we know, blow things out of proportion. Then, instantly, because MJ looked and acted differently to most of us, human’s became automatically scared and defensive about MJ and thus, absorbed the crap that the media spat out. This is evident again today because the whole world is mourning over his death. What a bunch of phucking hypocrites!

How can the media spend years looking at MJ under a twisted, manipulative magnifying glass, always choosing to see the bad side of him and the things he did, influencing the viewing public across the world to despise him and brand him, and then suddenly, when I wake up this morning they are playing his music videos all over the TV, spending hours talking about him and how devastated they are that he is gone and that the world will never be the same.

His music is being played on every radio station, he holds at least the top 15 album downloads in the UK and the World, 1 Million people PER HOUR are looking at his profile on Wikipedia as I write this post. It’s absolutely insane that the media and the naive people who listen to them have been destroying his life for years, turning him into the ‘freak’ that they have branded him and then suddenly when he is dead, everybody becomes so interested in him – he is still the same person and has the same achievements today as he had 1, 5 and 10 years ago!!

I’m not saying there wasn’t anything wrong with MJ. He obviously had his issues which stemmed from his childhood but I didn’t automatically brand him a paedophile. It was obvious in the documentaries and footage of him, his residence in ‘Neverland’ etc that he longed for a real childhood and therefore wanted to spend time around children. It then turned out that his insecurities came out when being around children and thus, created smoke around his sanity and ‘sexual preference’. The difference between me and Joe Bloggs in this situation is that I understood he had issues, needed help etc but I still respected him profoundly for his incomparable talent and for what he brought to this world, which I feel greatly outweighs any speculation or truth around the bad things he did. I didn’t just go from ‘I love MJ, Thriller is wicked, but now the media say’s he is a dirty old man so I will never listen to his music again, now he is dead and I’m upset and will go and buy all his albums and keep the neighbours up for a week’.

There is so much truth in the saying “You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone”. MJ brought so much to this world that even thought 99.9% of the world’s population had never even met him, most people are now mourning his death like a brother would, and that is a true testament to the sheer brilliance of the guy. The difference is that the hypocrites should be holding their heads in shame and realise they are probably responsible for the death of the world’s most talented men instead of showing now that they actually care about him, just because the media are playing his damn videos on the TV.