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I couldnt agree with u more. Now i liked MJ's music but all this cr*ap people are posting "Oh my heart is Broken", " My life will never be the same"

These are the people who need to get a life and stop seeking attention and actually get on with somethin that matters!

Spot on with that point well done! At Least ur not some other starry eyed looney who thought MJ was some sort of God or saint! Good on ya!

Maybe because people really don't realise what they've got until it's gone. MJ was incredibly talented. Many people probably didn't get around to buying his CD's while he was alive, but now that he's gone they suddenly feel the urge to get them. It's also like a mark of respect. So many people were willing to make fun off him while he was alive, but now that he's passed on they're maybe feeling bad about it.

Thriller is the biggest selling album of all time for a good reason. You should definitely check it out. You don't have to like him as a person, but you cannot take away his achievements. He will always be remembered as one of the greatest. ;-)

I get the same backlash. Every party I have been to since his death we "had" to listen to the best musician of all time. Which I don't have a problem with except we never listened to it before his death, and I mean never. And we would all tell the latest MJ jokes and everyone laughed. People are just trying to belong. I did like some of the music from the 80's but after that it was all crap. If her were not famous and you saw him on the street you would avoid him like the plague, he really was strange.

I say stand by your beliefs and convictions and formulate opinions of your own. Don't follow the masses who are being forced fed theirs.

The media brainwashes people into thinking he is a bad person. They did the same thing to Princess Diana. So, I know that Michael Jackson is someone you never knew. But most people realize, "you don't know what you have till it's gone." Since he's gone, people are starting to realize how he really was a caring and genuine person, there's no way he could've been a molester, NO WAY. He's too much of a gifted man with a kind heart, stupid press.

I was going to ask a question like this, I mean I respect your not a fan. I've been brought up with him and have always loved his music etc. But now he has died all of a sudden people that slagged him off calling him a pedophile and all this are his 'fans' it really gets on my nerves.

You took the words out of my mouth! I have always loved MJ and his music, and have had his CDs since I started buying CDs but lately at school ive seen people talking about him and buying his Cds even though they have never mentioned him before and I find this totally Hypocritical.

Look here missy! If Michael Jackson hadn't lived we wouldn't have horribly manufactured popular music. Can you imagine watching TV without stupid dancing. You would have to actually listen to the music! How bad would that be.

You have a good point there.

Because he is dead does not mean that you have to suddenly start liking him.

I think that he was a good artist and was over exposed in the wrong areas.

Now that he is dead everyone is talking about him like he was a god, shame that they was not saying that when he was alive.

But you know what they say good news does not sell.

It is ashame that the media is like the way they are.

point taken im not what you'd call a fan i do own the bad album and the odd single i like but i wouldn't go and buy albums now just for the sake of it i do think it's sad though and not because he was a superstar but because he was like anyone else he had a family who will miss him and young kids who needed him i think people should just leave him be now

I see your point. My boyfriend and I considered getting tickets for the O2 concerts because we love the music. We decided not to because moraly I felt that we could be supporting a man who had done dodgy things to children. (a debate for another time).

I think its really a media thing really, they control the positives and negative things being said about public figures and certainly at these times, more facts imerge about a person.

I have to say that since his death, I have heard more of stories about his humanitarian efforts that I had had for the whole of his career.

Seems that there was a comassionate side of him that has, in the past, been negatively portrayed.

I am still undecided if I ever liked the guy but his music was genius.

Still won't buy his records.