MJ is dead! This, thanks to Twitter, was literally my first bit of 'new information' today. I had no idea yet what the weather was doing, what the time was or whether or not the coffee my wife had made was Nescafe Gold, or Cafe do Brazil filter... but, I knew that Michael Jackson was dead!
In all honesty, and this statement has already shocked far too many people so I'm not going to be surpised if it brings up some emotion in you, I don't care. Rumour has it he was a musical genius and all those wonderful things - I was, and will never be a fan, so in the greater scheme of things, his death is as relevant to me as the mating habits of an egyptian dung beatle.
What does amaze me that this seems to have become the most important event in the world today! Every news channel, every radio station (except the one I work for), youtube, every second facebook status is referring to the death of the King. (I even read an article that said twitter crashed for a short while because of the flood of #MJ messages)
My comments seemed to upset some people on facebook, but heres what I'm getting at: If you're a Michael Jackson fan, honour the man. respect him. speak of his music, talk about him, mourn, take a day off work if that's what you feel you need to do.
But, if you're not a fan - why get involved in the 'disaster' that is MJ's death? Why not spend that energy doing something productive, like (as a fellow facebookers status encouraged me this morning) taking a blanket or jersey to someone on the street who must be freezing to near death in this weather.
Our response as the 'people of earth' to MJ's death says a whole lot about us - it reminds me that we're a celebrity obsessed generation, reminds me that we are at times more concerned about the happenings 'out there' than what's happening right in front of us.
I mean no disrespect to MJ fans - if my favourite artists died, I'd mourn - but this is a bitter reminder of the events of 1996 when Mother Teresa's death in the same week as Princess Di's made page 3. Something doesn't seem right.
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