The Way I See Michael Jackson
Yesterday, someone told me to "come back to Tumblr". Probably this motivated me to come here and write this post that I'm pretty sure no one is going to read, but I feel that I need to do this.
I didn't live enough to see Michael Jackson in action, if you know what I'm saying. He passed away when I was 9 years old.
My parents always listened to "We Are The World", probably since I was born. They always talked about the singers in this song, and they always listened to a lot of other songs from them. Except for Michael.
So for me, Michael was "We Are The World". This was the only song I knew from him until I was 6 years old.
In 2006, there was the World Music Awards thing and I remember watching it. I remember that Michael received an award (that now I know it was the Millenium Award) and I remember Beyonce giving the award to him.
I remember how crazy it was, I remember people screaming for him. I remember him trying to sing "We Are The World" and I remember I wasn't able to hear it, even though it was from my TV, because people were screaming too loud.
Next day, I remember seeing a lot of news about it, and I was pretty sure that what they were saying about him were all lies. I wasn't crazy!! I watched that, and people were screaming for him. So why were people saying he was booed? I knew something was wrong and I didn't understand.
I remember a lot of people tried so hard to convince me he did "wrong things" in his career. But what did he do?
Even though I was young (I'm not old now tho, I'm 14), I knew something was going VERY wrong and I wanted to know what happened.
I wanted to know what was going on and why the news papers hated Michael Jackson so much. Since I was a child I had the need to have my own vision and my own opinion about things, and this time wouldn't be different.
During the rest of 2006 and for a time in 2007, I listened to Michael Jackson and watched his videos. For me, he was a normal artist and the color of his skin didn't matter to me, but I asked my parents what happened to him. I was told he had "bleached" his skin, and that was the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I kept listening to his songs until 2008, when my father bought a computer and I finally could search things about Michael. For real, those years will probably be in my mind forever, because what I found about news papers and what they said about Michael was disgusting and I will never forget.
The first thing I found was that he had a skin disorder called "vitiligo". So, as you can see, I found the first lie people told me about him. He didn't bleach his skin, he had a fucking skin disorder. If people knew about it, why they always told he bleached his skin?
I followed with my search, and it seemed that the lies that people said about him had no end.
I found about the allegations of sexual abuse and all the disgusting things you already know people always told about him. But the only thing in my mind was: why?
At this point, I was pretty sure I couldn't trust whatever people ever told me about him. The more you search things about Michael Jackson, the more disgusted by people around him and the media you get.
Since this time, my vision about him didn't change and never will.
No one ever really talked about his talent, his songs, his art. No one. People were interested in his money and in his private life, his appearance. I see Michael as a wonderful artist and a wonderful person. He was a wonderful human being and wherever he is now, I'm pretty sure he is still this wonderful human being. People tried to turn lies into real things during his whole career and you don't know how disgusting it is to me.
I'm not here to change the way you see him, if you're one of those people who hate him. But please, search for things. Don't ever believe things you see in news papers or things people tell you about others, mainly if it is about artists.
Media don't treat artists as humans. They will write lies about everyone, more if this person is talented. They won't focuse in it, because it won't sell as much as it will if they write lies about them. Media is abusive, and with Michael they were the most horrible thing I've ever seen. And you know what? They still.
Michael wanted love, peace, equal rights. The media wanted, as he says on the song D.S, to get his ass dead or alive.
Tom Sneddon wasn't the only cold person in his life. Majority were.
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