Common Thought of Sir Rantsalot

Since as far back as I can remember, my mother, sister and I always had a preference as to what we’d bump in the car. Michael Jackson’s BAD.

His song’s, written by the legendary Quincy Jones, had an unbelievably catchy hook to them and for the life of me I could not get them out of my head.

I remember seeing his “film” Moonwalker for the first time, and not caring that much about the plot, I just remembered being in awe by watching him do his transformation into a giant robot.

In ‘91, I recollect the Black or White video, and how much controversy came of it. Seriously, can’t a guy cut lose and smash a few car windows, dance in the street, and morph into a panther without there being a huge fuss about it? Who cares?

Shortly after Black or White, came the rumor about him molesting little boys, which we have no idea is true or false, and then came the jokes.

One of my favorites was, When does Michael Jackson shop at K-mart? When Boys Pants are 1/2 off. Haha

After that, he kind of disappeared for a while, by my fam didn’t care much about him being in the limelight by the paparazzi. My sister and I didn’t care about that, we still bumped his tunes and danced around to them.

Around the time I was in High School, I was all about Hard Rock. One day, I remember stopping on MTV and hearing a rock cover of a Michael Jackson song done by a band called Alien Ant Farm. For the purpose of the cover that they did, I became a fan of theirs. They did some pretty cool songs, as well as crashing the BET Awards and a Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake show.

At the MTV video music awards one year, AAF performed on top of Radio City Music Hall, and mostly everybody was expecting MJ to come out and dance, but didn’t. N Sync performed later that night and he did a little diddy with them.

One thing I don’t get is how no one really cared that AAF covered that song, not even MJ.

Eminem took a stab at MJ, and MJ wasn’t too happy with what came of it.

The cameo MJ did in Men In Black 2 was the only funny/good part of that movie.

The infamous interview he did brought a whole new light to him, I still don’t know why he dangled his kid off of that balcony.

When his trial rolled around, I thought for sure he was gonna get slammed hard for all of his “rumors”. But he didn’t, I was relieved.

“You rock my world” was a pretty good song, but it was hard for me to believe that that was “him” expressing himself.

If he came to my neck of the woods on tour, I would’ve without hesitation bought a ticket.

When I got wind of him dying, I did not believe it one bit. I refused to believe it. But I checked the internet… DAMN!

I felt as if a part of me had died, I have listened to the King of Pop for so long and I had to do my best to keep cool.

On July 3rd, I payed my respects to him by participating in the Guiness record for biggest flash mob of zombies doing the Thriller dance.

I don’t care if he had vitiligo, how messed up he was, how many face/nose jobs he’s had, how many kids he molested (let alone if he did or didn’t), or who he was friends with, he was the man. His hypnotic dancing and singing are what made him a legend.

His legacy will go on.

RIP Michael Jackson

Catch ya on the flipside

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