It has been coming for a long time, but now that we are getting right down to the end I have to say a few words. First and formost I want to make sure everyone knows that I am a huge Michael Jackson fan. I love all of his work from the days with the Jackson 5, to his most current album Invincible. However, it has not always been this way. I was born in 1988, and did not start becoming really interested in anything outside of country music tell about 1998. I had been stuck in a very dull world and my only view of Michael Jackson was the image that the people around me put in my head. That is until I walked in to Incerdible Univers at the Super Mall in Auburn, Washington in the summer of 1999. A few minutes after entering I heard this beat and lyrics. bum, bum,,,,,,bum, bum,,,,,bum, bum,,,,bum,bum, Ah she was more like a beauty queen fromamovie scence,,, I said don't mind, but whata doya meeean I am the one. For the first time in my life I had actually heard a Michael Jackson song. So I ask my dad, who is this on the radio, and he said thats  Michael Jackson, and I replied "that guy everyones says is freak", and my Father came back with a firm "yes". After this moment I decided it was time to find out little more about that man everyone had showed such hatred for, during my life.

What I found has brought me some of the best entertainment of my life. After learning more about Michael than just the tabloid garbage that has taken advantage of some of his real problems. I found someone that is not only a very gifted and talented, Singer, Song writer, Dancer, and performer, but also one of the greatest humanitarians of our time. Michael Jackson is a staple of what America stands for. He came from a normal family, and earned his way to becoming the most popular human being ever to walk on the planet. He lived the Amercican dream, and not only did he live it, he gave it to others. Michael did not keep his millions of dollars to himself, he spent it on allowing others to have a good time. This is sadley what has enevatably lead use to the hear and now. 

Michael has for the most part been able to live his whole life without having to grow up. In reality we all have childerns hearts, but not eveyone is lucky enough to enjoy it, do to work needing to be done to survive.  With no real constraints in his life Michael has been able to avoid the battle to survive, and lived life without having to put on a show. Michael Jackson is exactly what you see. A talented, caring, and loving indiviual. People, especially in America seem to have a huge problem with that. For years the mainstream American public has done nothing but attack him. So Michael went to the only people that did not care, the people we all truly are, children. They do not care if he is black or white, or weather his (nose, chin, cheeks, jaw, eyes, mouth, forehead, ect.) has had plastic suegry. All children care about, is fun, imagination, advernture, risk, reward, and comfort. In a world were adults have nothing better to do than attack you, what else was Michael left with. 

Sadly now we are upon the brink giving one of the greatest people ever to call themselves an American the boot, because we are to caught up in aesthetic  crap to see true beauty.  I know there is nothing I can do to help Michael now, but I hope that this will make people think a little bit.  What does it matter what race someone is, or weather they have taken sterdoids, or they have had plastic suegry, or if they act differant than what is precived as normal. Their are many more important things to worrie about in life, but if judging others must be done, judge them by what they offer to you, peoples private buisness should be just that, and before you going judging others try starting with the man in the mirror.

dude, join the club. I am also a huge MJ fan who thinks exactally the same as you.

for years i want swallowing the junk i was provided with about MJ, but a little more in-depth look into the matters completely changed my view.

Michael Jackson was a great singer. WAS. He is now struggling to make something of his life. He needs to get back to where he was 20 years ago.

What are you talking about man, he has always been a great, revolutionary singer. I'll start from the beginning of his solo career. Off the wall sold 20 million copies. Thriller sold 104 million copies and during this era he achieved the most stardom ever achieved by a solo artist in the history of music. Bad sold 32 million copies and the Bad tour was the biggest tour in terms of audience for that time. It also produced 5 number one singles which is a record. Thriller and Bad were the highest selling albums of the 80's. going into the 90's- Dangerous sold 30 million copies and the dangerous tour was the second biggest tour at that time after bad. HIStory sold 36 million copies and the HISttory tour is curently the biggest tour ever in terms of number of people attended (i went in singapore). History and dangerous were the highest selling albums of the 90's. Invincible sold 15 million copies in 2001. Every time he releases a compalition album it automatically sells a few millions. Curently thriller 25 is no. 1 on the world charts. And he is releasing a new album at the end of this year. Also a few records- he has won more awards than any other artist in the history of music, he is the best selling artist ever (some sources give this to the beatles or elvis presely), he won the most number of grammy at once -8- I can go on with the records he has achieved but that will be boring.

"In the mid-1980s, Time Magazine called Jackson the biggest solo star since Elvis Presley. ^[44] He has had a notable impact on music and culture throughout the world while also tearing down racial barriers and paving the way for modern pop music and the concept of the modern pop star in his own country.^[9] The recording rights organization that represents Jackson, BMI, calls him a person with "planetary influence"^[9]. He has also been described as an "extremely important figure in the history of popular culture" and a "genius"^[153]. Jackson holds the record as the most awarded recording artist in history.^{[citation needed]} Throughout his four-decade career, he has received numerous honors and awards, including the World Music Award's Best-Selling Pop Male Artist of the Millennium, the American Music Award's Artist of the Century Award,^[154] and the Bambi's Pop Artist of the Millennium Award.^[155] He is a double-inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (once as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1997 and as a solo artist in 2001)^[62] and an inductee of the Songwriters Hall of Fame.^[156] He is characterized as "an unstoppable juggernaut, possessed of all the tools to dominate the charts seemingly at will: an instantly identifiable voice, eye-popping dance moves, stunning musical versatility, and loads of sheer star power".^[6] In 1990, Vanity Fair magazine named him the "Most Popular Artist in the History of Show Business".^[157] Jackson's work has influenced and spawned a whole generation of a wide variety of artists, including Mariah Carey,^[158] Usher,^[159] Britney Spears,^[158] Justin Timberlake,^[160] Omarion,^[161] Ne-Yo,^[162] and Chris Brown,^[163] among others."

So plz think before you talk. We are talking about one of the greatest artists of all time whether you like it or not (right up there with the presely's and the beatles)

^^ I think he was referring to the fact that MJ hasn't done anything good for the last 20 years. He peaked with Thriller and has gone downhill from there. Bad was good despite being over-produced, but everything he has done since has sounded like the wailings of an emotionally retarded drug addict. Which it is.

I like his "You are not alone"

his is the first foreign singer i've known, i was 6  

wtf with the drug addict. u can't expect every one of his albums to reach the high standards of thriller. thriller was a one in a trillion album and the biggest selling album of all time. if all his albums were like thriller then he would be a god. and plus all his music is amazing after bad. U freaking kidding me!!!

if his music sucks after bad, then why were dangerous and HIStory the biggest selling albums of the 90's? A lot of my favourite mj music comes from the 90's not 80's (even though they are damn good)

I don't understand. He had to sell his ranch?