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Michael Jackson’s Death Stuns World
June 27th, 2009 | 
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Michael Jackson “King of Pop” stuns world, death at age 50.
After letting a couple of days go by, I had a chance to reflect on the June 25th shocking death of Michael Jackson.
This celebrity death has hit me harder then I thought it would. When I found out, I was just finishing up a video tribute to Farrah Fawcett who died earlier in the day. Although Farrah’s death was sad, you had time to mentally prepare for it, after all she had been in the media for a while and we all knew she was battling anal cancer.
At approximately 4:25 p.m. CST I went to Twitter to share my link to the new tribute video for Farrah, when all of a sudden the news started flooding in, when I saw the first link I thought to myself, thats a really sick way to advertise on Twitter, then the second, third…I quickly switched to my MSN home page, and there it was. The headline…”Michael Jackson dead at 50 due to cardiac arrest.”
Still in disbelief I then checked my facebook page, and my friends were already sending in their condolences, now everything felt like a dream, quickly shifting gears to CNN live, it started to hit me, my childhood idol was gone.
As a DJ/Music Producer at the age of 15, I was already remixing “Billie Jean”, “Thriller”, “Bad”, “Smooth Criminal” ect. In fact I remember the first time I got “Billie Jean” to sync up with “Like A Virgin” from Madonna, I was in heaven. But back to Michael’s death, could it be? would I not be able to look forward to seeing him live in concert one last time?
Well after I had dinner and the evening set in, I kept noticing how slow the internet was, I couldn’t believe just how fast the news was traveling. Google, Yahoo, Twitter, Facebook, every single media outlet was crushing the net with the countless speculations and stories.
Yesterday I had a chance to reflect on MJ a little bit more, I was reminded of the time when I participated in ”Hands Across America” I remember holding that strangers hand a hearing Michael’s sweet angelic voice after the seemingly forever minute of silence. I recalled what I was doing when on the radio they broadcasted that “Thriller” had just broken the record for how many weeks it was on the chart. Back then it was through the Casey Kasem show, and I was able to remember his words 26 years later.
Speaking of charts, I was reading on Billboard that sales of 5 albums have skyrocketed and that brick and mortar stores can’t keep up with the demand. So next week it’s more than likely that we will see Michael Jackson on top of the pop charts more time, but this time he WILL break his own records and smash the records of every artist, making him truly the King of Pop.
Having all these found memories prompted me to do a tribute video, and I worked hard on it till one in the morning the day he passed away. It got me thinking though, that maybe I should do a mega mix remix and a video remix, and that’s what I have been working on this entire day.
I’ll remember these past days with wonder, nostalgia, and a sense of accomplishment. For if it weren’t for my childhood hero, I may not be who I am today. Thank you Michael for your musical genius, your spectacular live concerts, for being a trailblazer, for having the vision to create small video clips of your music that know will live on in hearts of millions and millions of fans. Thank you for your humanitarian contributions.
These are the things I hope this legend is remembered for, not all the court room dramas and strange behaviors of his later life.
To close this blog I’m reminded of a certain MJ song “Heal the World”, “Heal the world, make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race.” Let’s hope this line of song stays true.
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