The King of Pop Will Not Return!

It’s been blasted all over the world and so it’s no surprise now the news that shocked the world about Michael Jackson’s death. Shock is to mild a comment to make for me when I heard about it for I was driving down the street talking with a friend on my phone when she told me the news. I damn near stopped the car and caused a crash when she told me the news and I quickly switched on my car radio to hear more about it; mostly to hear it wasn’t true. I was wrong.

A lot of people know how I felt about the current direction that Michael was taking in his life and it wasn’t positive. I had always been a big fan of Michael Jackson but when he started doing all of this weird stuff I didn’t so much turn my back on him as I did to try an shock him out of this malaise he seemed to be in. The things he was doing, the things he was saying, I wondered was he on drugs or something for no rational person I felt or one it control of his senses would do or say such things. I realized that part of it was part of his publicity campaign for that’s the business he’s in, show bizness, but lightening his skin-tone, all that plastic surgery, and those comments about sharing his bed with others (especially kids), I honestly thought he had lost his mind! Especially after making that huge payout to that kid’s father who claimed Michael molested him (ironically there’s rumors that the kid has said that Michael didn’t do it. How about that LAPD?) it was foolish of him to get on live television with a reporter that had unfettered access to him and say such a thing! I was so mad I could’ve spit nails, but what could you do? He paid for it in the long run with a spate of bad publicity that was second to none! Unfortunately, he never really did rebound from that public relations disaster and it prompted me to write ‘Michael Jackson, Returns!’ It had to be done for as a life-long fan of Michael’s and someone who was seeing from the outside the effects of his bad decisions, I had hoped the article would shock him out of that neverending daze he seemed to be in. Well it was to much, to little, to late. He was to far gone with no return in sight and yet again I had the dubious distinction of being right.

Michael Jackson’s death affected many people worldwide in ways they probably didn’t understand, because I didn’t understand it myself. I never met him (inspite of some crazy reports to the contrary) yet hearing of his death made me sadder than I’ve felt for even some of my relatives. I felt closer to him than I do to many members of my own family and it’s so very strange to have all this affection for someone who didn’t even know my name (well I think he knew my name for I’m certain someone showed him my article). But as I explained in my first article Michael Jackson was my childhood hero. All the way up to the finish of High School and before ‘Thriller’ his mega-selling opus, I was a fan! People talk about ‘Thriller’ as his best album ever but to me, nothing could beat ‘Off The Wall’. And that was as a solo artist. The best album Michael Jackson ever made to me was ‘Triumph’ with his brothers as a member of the Jacksons! It was released right after ‘Off The Wall’ and man when it first came out we were dancing in the streets for we had been WAITING ANXIOUSLY for a new Jacksons’ LP! My white friends talked about Cheap Trick or KISS but me and my friends talked about Earth, Wind, & Fire, and the Jacksons! At that time the Jacksons were tantamount to the Beatles for us and Michael Jackson was our Mick Jagger! No one else could compare to him and we TRIED to compare him with others! Leon Sylver of the other family group the Sylvers came close but when the 80’s hit the Sylvers had disappeared and yet again the Jacksons’ led by Michael Jackson stood atop the heap! And that was the way it was until Michael left the Jacksons’ and went on to even greater glory on his own! We were so mad when he left his brothers to pursue a solo career full-time, but we forgave him. We were always forgiving him for that’s what you do for your heroes; overlook their short-comings.

Well I’m certain everyone is glued to their sets as we follow all of the details about Michael’s death and the untangling of his financial affairs as well as looking to see what the disposition of his three children will finally be. That seems to be the primary focus (with side excursions to criticize his father here and there it seems) as it should be. Seeing them crying as they came out of the hospital and got into a waiting car, you can only imagine how bad they felt, for to us he was Michael Jackson megastar, but to them he was just dad. That’s the thing that had been forgotten in his life as every news outlet tried to beat up on him and assassinate his character, we forgot that he was a human being with the same sorts of problems every man has; keeping his job, paying his bills, raising his kids, keeping a roof over his head. I mean granted he lived a lot bigger than many of us, but whether it’s a hovel or a mansion a house is still a house. His legacy though cannot be taken away from him for he was the greatest recording artist that ever lived. Sometime in the future someone else may come forward to exceed his accomplishments (my money is on Chris Brown) but til then his place in music history is set indefinitely. My condolences to his family, and R.I.P. Mike.

Daniel Asamota is an African American author purportedly of West Indian descent whose book ‘Mound Bayou’ has set the literary world ablaze. Now check out Daniel Asamota’s new novella ‘Cricket Man’ at www.cricketman.net. Also check out his website www.Dasamota.com or his e-mail at dasamota@yahoo.com.

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