Adam Cadre ([info]adamcadre) wrote,
@ 2009-06-30 23:59:00
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June 2009 minutiae posted.

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[info]colinmarshall
2009-07-01 05:23 pm UTC (link)
It's funny you bring up relative perceptions of Michael Jackson; I was just thinking (read: "getting ideas in my head straight for a post") about the same subject, since I missed the guy's height of both artistry and normality but still consider him just about as "important" as does someone who had a Thriller-filled sixth grade. In fact, I wasn't even born when Off the Wall or Thriller came out, and I was too young to be much aware of pop music when Bad was big. The name "Michael Jackson" didn't mean anything to me until the early 1990s, and then I only knew him as a scary public freak who was in some kind of high-profile legal trouble. Up until I'd say mid-middle school, I never realized that he once looked like a regular person and made music that wasn't overwhelmingly paranoid, ludicrously self-aggrandizing and embarrassingly kitschy. And yet that latter-day M.J., even though I got to know him first, has no dampening effect on whatever appreciation I've now developed for his pre-Bad iterations. Hmm...

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