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Houston Different than Jackson

Love Child

Love Child

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Michael Jackson died and the world was sad, almost every radio station played his songs that day.
The day Whitney Houston died, I could not hear one station playing her songs.
Friends posted about it Whitney dying on FaceBook. Later others posted not to glorify a drug user.
Was not Jackson the same? Did he not die from drugs as well?

Eh nevermind. Michael wasn't a druggie or a drug user.

BUT STILL HE WAS CONTROVERSIAL

Anyway, I don't care either way. Guess I should do my research.
 
If I was going to be totally honest (and I am), I'd have to say I was somewhat less than close to shedding a tear when we lost those two gems.
 
Doesn't matter. Once they're gone, people seem to forget the fact that they were pieces of shit. Remember when Amy Winehouse died? Somehow the media chose to remember her as a music legend, among the greats like Hendrix, Morrison, Joplin. I can honestly say I'd never heard a single one of her songs, and had it not been from the godawful photos of her all boozed/drugged up all over the internet, I'd have never heard of her. When I looked a little further into her, those boozed/drugged up photos were the same ones the same media used whenever they mentioned her and her antics...until she died. Then they managed to find one halfway decent picture of her in a reasonably fuckable state, and that's the ONLY one they'll use of her anymore whenever they talk about what a legend she was, and what a tragedy it was that we lost a drunken pillhead so young. So if Gingrich gets elected, who here is moving to Moonbase Alpha with me as soon as it opens up?
 
I guess what irks me most about it is once I'm gone, the people who knew me will never forget how big a piece of shit I can be at times.
 
That scenario is impossible by virtue of the fact that you're concerned about it. Can't be an asshole concerned about being an asshole.

Same way a stupid girl can't play a smart one on tv. Maybe that's a bad example.
 
Love Child said:
Michael Jackson died and the world was sad, almost every radio station played his songs that day.
The day Whitney Houston died, I could not hear one station playing her songs.
Friends posted about it Whitney dying on FaceBook. Later others posted not to glorify a drug user.
Was not Jackson the same? Did he not die from drugs as well?

Eh nevermind. Michael wasn't a druggie or a drug user.

BUT STILL HE WAS CONTROVERSIAL

Anyway, I don't care either way. Guess I should do my research.
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Jackson and Houston were different. Jackson looked like a freak but his music was good. Houston looked like a freak and had ear bleeding terrible music.
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Well that's just petulant. Like it or not, that woman had a big damn voice and it slapped all the ass off these autotuned twats. No matter what else she had fucked up in her brain, she did have that going for her.
 
Why is it that we always are so quick to judge people based on the minimal information we have about them? All three of the mentioned were seriously addicted to drugs to the point of self-destruction. Nobody can understand how much they were suffering prior to their deaths unless one has been in the same place. We should have learned by now that the wealth, friends, status, fame, or talent you have doesn't mean shit when you struggle with life and your own mind.

What people say about a person after death doesn't mean anything to that person (or so I think). Least of all when those saying it didn't even know the deceased. But each and every one of them left people who love them. Nobody forgets the negative behavior or "bad" things a person has done - some of us just choose to not mention them out of respect for those who are left behind. That is not even dishonest, it's just the old "if you don't have anything positive to say, don't say anything at all" approach.

LC, for what it's worth, the radio stations over here have played a lot of Houston's songs in the past few days. While the media over here focus on her musical talent and her incredible voice, they do acknowledge the decline of her career and the loss of said voice, but it is done in a way that makes it possible for those who cared about her to mourn without being slapped in the face. And that is, imho, the way it should be done. There is time enough to drag out every distasteful detail of a persons life, but there is nothing wrong in giving the bereaved some time to cope before the vultures get their feast.

/sermon
 
as long as they play Strawberry Fields Forever at my memorial service, I dont give a shit what people think of me after I die.
 
As long as they play the Superman movie theme song at my memorial service, I don't give a shit either what people think of me after I die.
 
Ilyanna said:
Why is it that we always are so quick to judge people based on the minimal information we have about them? All three of the mentioned were seriously addicted to drugs to the point of self-destruction. Nobody can understand how much they were suffering prior to their deaths unless one has been in the same place. We should have learned by now that the wealth, friends, status, fame, or talent you have doesn't mean shit when you struggle with life and your own mind.
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Countless people deal with those struggles every day, the vast majority are FAR more successful in that regard than these 'stars'. The real problem is that same vast majority will never see their stories told, never see their name in lights, never have millions of people cheering them on when they're alive or mourning them when they're dead. Why do we assign certain lives a higher value than another, or even than our own? Is mankind as a whole really so desperate for spectacle that we'll forego our own worth and hand it over to another who was given the opportunity to deliver that spectacle for us?
 
Sir Sacrifyx said:
Countless people deal with those struggles every day, the vast majority are FAR more successful in that regard than these 'stars'. The real problem is that same vast majority will never see their stories told, never see their name in lights, never have millions of people cheering them on when they're alive or mourning them when they're dead. Why do we assign certain lives a higher value than another, or even than our own? Is mankind as a whole really so desperate for spectacle that we'll forego our own worth and hand it over to another who was given the opportunity to deliver that spectacle for us?
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I wholeheartedly agree. I hate the hype about a few people who are basically insignificant for my life as much as you do. Believe it or not, that was my first thought when I read the thread. Looks like a lot of people prefer living vicariously through others than dealing with their own lifes, and the media reacts to that by giving them what they want.
 
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