Obligatory...

So you already know that the King of Pop has passed. And for those Luddites out there without tv's who didn't hear, Michael Jackson was a singer who produced a lot of music you probably haven't heard of because your horse-drawn carriage doesn't come with a tape deck.

It's hard to say what I felt when I heard. I was kind of surprised, like, "No way! Get outta here...". But then after looking it up online, I was just kinda "meh"... I mean, there are many many people who literally grew up in the time MJ was on top of his game. The music was that universal. Anyone who says they weren't a fan when Thriller came out, they're basically dirty dirty liars.

Anyway, so he's gone now, and I think I mostly felt bad for him. Like, we all can speculate about his bizarre behavior in the past decade or so. But I think when it's all said and done, and it's probably not a very popular to say, but I kind of felt bad for him. Fame seems like it can really distort your sense of reality/priority. And there hasn't been anyone who is as famous as MJ and had their distorted sense of reality discussed as publicly. I'm not trying to justify anything about his behavior, believe me. I just think, in looking back, that perhaps the pressure of fame, and the constant public evaluation is probably more than anyone, you, me, MJ, or literally anyone, can actually handle without some really strange things coming to the foreground.

So I will just end this post here. There isn't a whole lot more I could add to all the endless back and forth over this.