Comments on: Remember The Time

By: 2009 Music Rundown | syntaxfree

2009 Music Rundown | syntaxfree — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:04:00 +0000

[...] what happened on June 25th, 2009. I already wrote a fair bit in this blog about the joy Michael Jackson brought to my life, but reading over it again I’m struck by how much I still had to leave [...]

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:48:08 +0000

Don: That is now officially one of my favourite comments ever left on this blog.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:42:36 +0000

Kelly: Aw, sorry about the crying. It’s amazing, I’d somehow actually forgotten One Day In Your Life existed but the day he died the song came right back into my head and it hasn’t left.

Benny: I adore Jam, but I would have thought you would go with something more old school! You must show me your moves some time. :)

Matt: The ticket sales were to fans and opportunistic touts, I imagine, so I don’t know what that has to do with the media. I think the point Kelly is making, and which I agree with, is that until he died the tone of almost any Michael Jackson coverage you saw anywhere, or any of the comments you’d encounter about him in daily life, was overwhelmingly cynical and very dismissive. Some of this was of course due to his own insistence on doing things that made him look weird. But even allowing for that, he very rarely got fair coverage. Dumb things he did were blown up, and great things he did were buried. What is amazing to most MJ fans now is that for the first time, we see people attempting to be fair.

By: Don

Don — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:16:32 +0000

I remember the Remeber the time video.

It had one of the most goosebump inducing moments of pop I ever experienced.

The bit where the music drops, and he’s going “on the phone! you and me! till dawn! two or three! what about us girl! do you! do you! do you! do you! do you! in the park! on the beach! you and me! in spain! what about! what about!”

and by then all the friction of the phrases have built up the point where the only logical thing to say next is

“PURR-RAP! PUP-PUP PUP! PURR-RAP! PUP-PUP! PUP!”

it’s the lyrical/vocal equivalent of an orgasm and MJ’s delivery bristles with more sexual energy than the dirtiest lyrics of the dirtiest songs.

famazing.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:08:34 +0000

I was always very fond of the music, and I think he was an amazing performer, in his heyday. I’m still not sympathetic about the stuff Kelly is referring to, (though none of it was ever proven, and I understand the reasons behind the unusual behaviour, pressures of fame since he was very young, and all of the other problems that caused him), but now he’s gone there’s no gain from making a fuss about it.

As for “where was the love a month ago”, he did just sell a million tickets at £75 ($S 200 ish?) a piece in 24 hours, so the media isn’t being any more hypocritical than usual. But I think it’s a terrible shame he’s gone just before his chance to show he could still perform.

Also, I’d like to see a similar outpouring of emotion when Quincy Jones dies.

By: Benny

Benny — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:01:16 +0000

I have to say I’m one of those who’re guilty of appreciating Michael as a whole only now that he’s gone, although I’ve always been a fan of his pre-80’s output by extension of my interest in funk and soul music. And that period of music remains what I love best about Michael, even though I grew up in the ‘Bad’ and ‘Dangerous’ era and didn’t get into the Motown stuff until I was way older. Oh, and I breakdanced in front of the entire school to ‘Jam’ for some family day thing, just so you know.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:15:36 +0000

and tell me about it. The surreal world where people are now sympathetic to MJ…in *gasp* America, nonetheless! It’s still on the news 24/7. He’s still on covers of newspapers. Magazines. Most of the news is sympathetic towards MJ. Where was the love a month ago, a year ago, 5 years ago??

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:16:05 +0000

ok. making me cry.