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Pu the Owl · Jun 26th, 2009, 09:44 AM

Though I was never into his music, I'm no exception: everybody growing up the 80's had in a way or another I confronted his big icon, like it happened for many other icons. Of the confrontation everybody made what he wanted, some turning it into indifference, some into influencial presence, some into something else entirely.

Sadly, too often icon and person are not made to coincide and the results are traumatically alienating, like in this case. I don't feel like praising or condemning the man or the artist, but after all these years, I couldn't help thinking he's made so many mistakes because his artistic ego wasn't made to be relegated like it was, leaving only the man exposed to the public, with all his ineptitudes and wrong turns. His misfortunes were like caused by misconception he had himself of his public role and his private life.

I'm quite sure figures like these are condemned to disappear in the music industry, with all these changes and novelties of the new times. It has its positive side, but in some cases probably it has also a negative side to it. Icons are becoming so throwaway, so disposable. Something totally undeserving seems to have become iconic today and it's already forgotten tomorrow and our attention is fragmented among all these till everything, including the notions of genius and importance, becomes as flat as anything else.

RIP MJ

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Jun 26th, 2009, 09:44 AM	#2
Pu the Owl Useless Oracle™ Joined: Jan 2002 Location: Everywhere Posts: 5,136	Though I was never into his music, I'm no exception: everybody growing up the 80's had in a way or another I confronted his big icon, like it happened for many other icons. Of the confrontation everybody made what he wanted, some turning it into indifference, some into influencial presence, some into something else entirely. Sadly, too often icon and person are not made to coincide and the results are traumatically alienating, like in this case. I don't feel like praising or condemning the man or the artist, but after all these years, I couldn't help thinking he's made so many mistakes because his artistic ego wasn't made to be relegated like it was, leaving only the man exposed to the public, with all his ineptitudes and wrong turns. His misfortunes were like caused by misconception he had himself of his public role and his private life. I'm quite sure figures like these are condemned to disappear in the music industry, with all these changes and novelties of the new times. It has its positive side, but in some cases probably it has also a negative side to it. Icons are becoming so throwaway, so disposable. Something totally undeserving seems to have become iconic today and it's already forgotten tomorrow and our attention is fragmented among all these till everything, including the notions of genius and importance, becomes as flat as anything else. RIP MJ