This will be too long for a tweet but it’s not much. I’ve been thinking about Michael Jackson and how I feel about it, and how I feel about people’s responses to it, ever since Thursday night and I think I’ve boiled it down to the following.
The media can mourn Michael Jackson the celebrity if it wants to - that’s their loss afterall. I’ve seen that c word thrown around a lot, mostly by way of somehow dismissing MJ’s death, refusing to grieve, itching to bring up his weirder qualities. The word celebrity has been destroyed this decade by wannabes and reality TV. I flatly refuse to use it to describe Michael Jackson. The world lost a true artist this week, perhaps one of its last, and that’s why I’m sad.
Anyway he’s free from this world that thank god never truly got to tell him just quite how unwanted he was by some. He was too big and too much of a dreamer for this place. He loved children and did nothing wrong in a world where those two things aren’t allowed to lay together, especially if you’re a Celebrity. It is sad that he is gone but truly the thing I am thinking of most now is: he’s free.
