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Quote from: "reasonables+luvs+MJ"I haven't hear of the name Michael Jackson until June 25, 2009... so... :oops:Um, hmm, are you sure you're not pranking me? Do you have a TV set in your home? Radio? Or maybe cousins who have a TV set or radio? I certainly wasn't prepared for this - i.e. someone on this forum not hearing of MJ prior to 6/25/2009. :oops: I imagined that anyone old enough to be here would have heard of MJ before then. If you're telling the truth, then I apologize I didn't include that option in the poll... Your answer, in the form of this post, will count. You simply heaven't heard... Got it.
I haven't hear of the name Michael Jackson until June 25, 2009... so... :oops:
these answers make me feel kind of weird. i really never gave michael a hugh amount of thought over the years but i vividly remember when some of the parts from bashir program were played ,i believe during the trial or just before i could completely understand what michael was trying to convey about what was happening with kids being made to grow up too fast ect. i could even get what he meant about sleeping in the same bed. and trust me i am not one to be loose about that kind of stuff. my kids especially at that time had barely ever spent any time out of my sight. i can not understand how i was able to connect with what he was saying and get it.that has been one of the saddest parts for me that i missed seeing so much of his work when it was fresh and new. but maybe if i had i would have fallen prey to the tabloid bs. idk
Quote from: "truthprevails"Quote from: "reasonables+luvs+MJ"I haven't hear of the name Michael Jackson until June 25, 2009... so... :oops:Um, hmm, are you sure you're not pranking me? Do you have a TV set in your home? Radio? Or maybe cousins who have a TV set or radio? I certainly wasn't prepared for this - i.e. someone on this forum not hearing of MJ prior to 6/25/2009. :oops: I imagined that anyone old enough to be here would have heard of MJ before then. If you're telling the truth, then I apologize I didn't include that option in the poll... Your answer, in the form of this post, will count. You simply heaven't heard... Got it. I'm not kidding around. Yeah, I have TVs, but I wasn't watching the news before 6-25-09, so... . When I first heard that he was 'dead', I was like, "Who is that. That name doesn't ring a bell", but when I turned to the news and heard that he was (cough)dead (cough), that's when I found out that he...was...the King of Pop and he's the reason why I listen to pop.***ugg, I remember that day like it was yesterday. I don't think I ever cried that much over a two-month period time; I mean I was crying EVERYDAY, especially when I heard Usher and Jermaine sing at the memorial... I broke out.***
Quote from: "reasonables+luvs+MJ"Quote from: "truthprevails"Quote from: "reasonables+luvs+MJ"I haven't hear of the name Michael Jackson until June 25, 2009... so... :oops:Um, hmm, are you sure you're not pranking me? Do you have a TV set in your home? Radio? Or maybe cousins who have a TV set or radio? I certainly wasn't prepared for this - i.e. someone on this forum not hearing of MJ prior to 6/25/2009. :oops: I imagined that anyone old enough to be here would have heard of MJ before then. If you're telling the truth, then I apologize I didn't include that option in the poll... Your answer, in the form of this post, will count. You simply heaven't heard... Got it. I'm not kidding around. Yeah, I have TVs, but I wasn't watching the news before 6-25-09, so... . When I first heard that he was 'dead', I was like, "Who is that. That name doesn't ring a bell", but when I turned to the news and heard that he was (cough)dead (cough), that's when I found out that he...was...the King of Pop and he's the reason why I listen to pop.***ugg, I remember that day like it was yesterday. I don't think I ever cried that much over a two-month period time; I mean I was crying EVERYDAY, especially when I heard Usher and Jermaine sing at the memorial... I broke out.***OK, you mean to say that you had heard of "the King of Pop" but didn't know the real name was Michael Jackson? So you only made the connection on 6/25/2009? I understand. That's very interesting. I think a lot of people were crying pretty hard on and after that day. I cried later...
reasonables: I see... Thanks for clarifying! Apologies again for not envisioning this scenario... I'm glad you know about MJ now.
I loved Michael ever since I was a child. Thriller was released when I was 7 but even before that I loved his very earliest songs, Ben was one of my favourites. I always felt a kinship with him in a way because he had an isolated childhood and so did I, though I never experienced the awful things he did, his suffering was so many times worse. I was like many people shocked when he "died", more so than I could have imagined, I cried so much for days, until the questions and intuition took over. He had and continues to have such a huge impact on my life and I'm glad that even when I read all the garbage that was printed about him I instinctively knew that's all it was. Garbage. The accusations against him were ridiculous and the witchhunt he suffered would not have happened to anyone else, it was more than most people could bear. Yet he did so with grace and humility and I hope he gets his payback from all those who wronged him.