michael jackson !

[Mr Woc]

Hi guys

As im sure we all know michael jackson passed away today or last night if you live in the usa, anyone want to post their thoughts ?

Woc

hi mr woc,

as a big music fan i was saddened by the news of michael s death ! . im usually into classic rock and metal but i do have some of his cds....... he certainly was a legend !!! hope he is remembered for the music and not some of the other less pleasant things !!
Rick1

[snowflake33]

What a super entertainer . I agree with you there Rick , hope people do remember him for his music, he was so talented.
My thoughts are with his family and friends

[shazzababie]

i aint a big fan but i do have a few of his cd's and like a few of his songs. Was really sad to hear about it and the 3 kids who now have no dad.

I do think however the idiots who were in chat this morning telling jokes about him in taras room were out of order.

Cant be doing with crap like that tbh

The man has died, show a little respect

[snowflake33]

yeah i agree shazza.... they should have a lil respect whether they liked him or not ....
how wud they feel if it was someone close to them ....

[Lazy]

he did some great songs xx

[dj lee]

i agree shazza.

MJ was weird in his own way, i think the biggest problem was noone really understood him. as he admitted he was a very lonely person who seemed like a child trapped in a mans body. i believe him to be a musical genius, some of his songs was just purely amazing and he will hopefully be remembered in the same catagory as elvis. i am deeply saddened by his death and my thoughts go out to his family and most of all his children. he will never be forgotten. may he rest in peace x

[sultry]

hmm yeah its sad...
i aint a fan at all yeah he was a bit of a weirdo but
little wonder when u see how his childhood was...
poor bloke never got a chance to be a kid.....
do think he was sooo misunderstood...
R.I.P

Okay, "tin hat" time lol:

The trouble with Michael Jackson is that he totally divides opinion and as a result it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that there would be a fair bit of piss-taking going on. I woke up on Friday morning to 2 joke texts, and by the end of the day I must've received upwards of 25 different jokes. I'm sure I wasn't the only one either - how many people on here can say, hand on heart, that they haven't laughed at a single bad-taste joke about Michael Jackson over the last few days? Or about any other famous person for that matter? And unless anyone on here knew him personally I don't think there's any point in getting too upset about it. It's the out-pouring of grief and crocodile tears from people who didn't even know the bloke that I can't abide. It's like Princess Diana all over again - people crying more over the death of someone they don't know than the death of a member of their own family. How messed up is that?

For the record, I thought his music from the Off The Wall and Thriller albums was outstanding - Billie Jean is one of the greatest songs I've ever heard. But as a person, I didn't particularly like him. The child abuse allegations have been done to death but I doubt very much that he was innocent of any wrongdoing whatsoever - someone who thinks sharing a bed with someone else's kids is okay needs a reality check. Dangling your baby over a hotel balcony is unbelievably stupid. As for the alleged child abuse, he might not have been convicted in a court of law but then again neither was OJ Simpson and most people are comfortable in assuming he was guilty, despite his acquittal. The thing I can't get out of my head is that if MJ was totally innocent, why pay 20 million dollars to Jordy Chandler in an out-of-court settlement? Of course, some might say why would Jordy Chandler's family accept the money rather than see justice done, but when it comes down to one person's word against another you've next to no chance of getting a conviction and he'd have most probably been acquitted anyway, guilty or not.

[snowflake33]

no one will ever know what happened unless they were there. so lets leave that there !!
as for the jokes... a joke about someones death is shocking , no matter who it is. The peopel who start the jokes .. well i hope they have some good ones about them when they die.