Michael Jackson Dies

[redxblack]

it's because we build a cult of personality around performers. people associate the song Thriller with MJ, not the two dudes who wrote it and who are still alive.

[That Nice Guy Beck!]

it's because we build a cult of personality around performers. people associate the song Thriller with MJ, not the two dudes who wrote it and who are still alive.

who wrote puff the magic dragon?
or all that fantastic hank williams jr stuff? [moto]

[red baron]

Peter Yarrow wrote this in 1958 before he joined the group

[gojira]

I do want to say though that it's important not to let one death trump 2 others: Rest in Peace Ed and Farrah.

Also Bob Bogle, founding member and bassist of The Ventures. RIP June 14. 

Hawaii Five-O - Opening Credits Sequence

[Scottish]

of course they did.
Michael had issues sure but he loved kids and helping kids, and he was set up plain and simple.
he may not be a genius to some but to me the guy is a legend an icon, nobody danced like that nobody had those beats/basslines and nobody touched the entire universe like he did. nobody.
was he weird? 100% but all artists are.

Really? He settled out of court for a huge amount of money. Prosecuters may not have been able to meet the burden of evidence but a civil trial doesn't require the same. And an innocent man would tell them to shove it on principle. He paid cause it was going badly and about to get worse, and I'll bet the real details would make "The Gimp" retch. Convicted or not he was a molester and this glorification is sickening. 

[Kopfjäger]

REAL country is much different than what gets played on "country" radio.

I disagree with that. If you think Hank Sr. was, is, the only one who plays Country music you are sadly mistaken my friend.

[redxblack]

I never said that. However, a lot of radio country is pop music w/ western wardrobe.

[Speedbag]

I never said that. However, a lot of radio country is pop music w/ western wardrobe.

+1

And I hate it. 

[Grampa]

+1

And I hate it. 

I'm Jack Ingram...and I play country music

[Porsche Monkey]

I never said that. However, a lot of radio country is pop music w/ western wardrobe.

[Tiffers]

I love country music, but I agree, the new "country" radio airplay is not country. It is a pop music blend. Look at Taylor Swift and that other idol girl, can't think of her name.

Garth Brooks, Brooks and Dunn, Clint Black, etc. Those are country artists.

[Scottish]

I love country music, but I agree, the new "country" radio airplay is not country. It is a pop music blend. Look at Taylor Swift and that other idol girl, can't think of her name.

Garth Brooks, Brooks and Dunn, Clint Black, etc. Those are country artists.

One could make the arguement that Garth Brooks started the new country genre as he was the first truely successful artist to hit the mainstream airwaves.

[That Nice Guy Beck!]

Garth Brooks, Brooks and Dunn, Clint Black, etc. Those are country artists.

Ommmmmm an intIr natioooo nIll harveeees tarrrrrrrrrrrrr yeeee HAWWWWWW

[hbliam]

his victims wanted CASH.
they were not victims.

You aren't talking about a guy that one time, out of the blue, was accused of child molestation. Your hero paid over $22 million to make the 1993 case go away and was charged with 7 additional counts ten years later. I haven't met many (in fact none) accused child molestors that were innocent. As as the other poster said, giving to charities was just a way for him to numb his guilt and sway people like you into thinking it's ok to have sleepovers with little boys. But don't let me stand in your way. Press forward, be a super fan, mourn his passing. I'll just skip all the that and hope that something more newsworthy rids my TV/internet/radio of this soon.

[mitt]

You aren't talking about a guy that one time, out of the blue, was accused of child molestation. Your hero paid over $22 million to make the 1993 case go away and was charged with 7 additional counts ten years later. I haven't met many (in fact none) accused child molestors that were innocent. As as the other poster said, giving to charities was just a way for him to numb his guilt and sway people like you into thinking it's ok to have sleepovers with little boys. But don't let me stand in your way. Press forward, be a super fan, mourn his passing. I'll just skip all the that and hope that something more newsworthy rids my TV/internet/radio of this soon.

+1

mitt