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November 24, 2006
Is Michael Jackson God?!!
All that I knew about him was – that he was a black American who changed himself white through some plastic surgery, that he was a king of pop, that he could moon walk the best, that he got into pedophilic controversies, and later he got into bankruptcy too. The other things I heard about him was he had a chimp as a friend & lives mostly in an Oxygen chamber. I thought this information was good enough for me to build an opinion about the pop star Michael Jackson (MJ).
A decade back or so when MJ had visited India, one of my friends who was a ardent fan of his bought a Rs 1500 ticket to see his live show in Chennai. That was when Balasaheb Thackeray had proudly announced to the press that MJ used his bathroom!
I was a bit anti-pop those days, and was on the sides of people who argued – why waste so much of money on a 5-hour show. I had listened to his songs, but I never understood the lyrics. I had watched his video, but never found his dance steps above average. Then what was it that made him so big in his industry and famous through out the world? Why were people so crazy about him? And why was he always in the news?
While traveling to Tiruppur by train, I bought one of MJ’s DVDs (pirated one), which supposedly had all the videos of him with songs. It lied at my home for few months, before I got a DVD player to watch it. And when I watched it, I could read the ‘lyrics’ of the song as subtitles and it was then I realized what made him the King.
MJ is not just a singer he is a subtle philosopher too. He had a mission, which was anti-racism. He is pro-blacks, and his thoughts are anti US mentality. He is an environmentalist, and on top of it he is an original thinker! And all his songs had a thought-provoking message, which no wonder made him one among the most liked personalities of the world.
We tend to form opinions about people and concepts based on the information we gather from various sources rather than personal experiences. We take a decision – whether we support or we don’t support. Both ways – the person or the concept remains on top of the mind. An atheist would think and talk more about the non-existence of God, than a theist who believes in His presence – both ways the concept of God lingers on the minds of both!
To make your mark from among the crores of people who exist on the planet is not an easy task. Whether you do good or you do bad but it ain’t easy to stand out! And whoever has made it big in their lives never had a cakewalk!
The effort needed to make one person, as your loving fan is equal to the effort needed to materialize Re 1 coin from thin air!
Posted by Kenni at November 24, 2006 07:33 AM
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