You can't run a website dedicated to pop culture and not mention this. I actually found about the death of Michael Jackson before most of the internet was even reporting it, but wasn't sure what to post up. I am hardly the hugest fan of Jackson, but anyone who grew up in the 1980's was a fan of at least some of his songs.



Michael Jackson's Thriller album can still stand toe to toe with any album out there today. As a kid I even had one of those red Michael Jackson coats that could unzip at the sleeves. Good times. I'm sad to hear he died despite all the calamity that he has been caught up in the last few years. Going from pop star to freak show.

I've never been afraid to blast some Billie Jean or play any other of the classics in the radio. I'm sure we'll be hearing a whole lot of MJ stuff in the weeks ahead. But if I can sum up Michael Jackson's influence in one statement it'd be that upon his death, MTV is playing music videos again. A fitting tribute to the man who basically built the genre.

And the deaths continue in threes. Something I was eerily thinking about earlier today when I read that Farrah Fawcett had died. I wondered who would be next, but I never could have imagined.

Edit: Larry King just said it best:

"What's coming now... Stories about what Michael Jackson did to me. The tabloids next week are going to be horror stories. In this realm that is the calmness, let's miss what was his talent. He gave us his talent and we sure did enjoy that."