Strange news - two celebrity deaths... Farrah Fawcett (here eulogized by Nancy Nall) - I was a bit too young, I guess, to really care about Farrah Fawcett when she was really famous.... But now - Michael Jackson, the king of pop, is found dead. Jackson took a lot of abuse through the years - he certainly went very strange somewhere by the 90s - though given his life story, it's not exactly surprising. He deserved better - it's hard not to see his weirdness as a result of some seriously twisting experiences...
His was not my favorite type of music, but in his prime, he was so good that things like that don't matter. He could transcend taste completely. Though that's not putting it right - he mixed styles consistently, doing rock, funk, straight pop, ballads, all pretty convincingly. The longer he went, the more conservative he sounded - the more overproduced and precious his music became... But when he was good, he was about as good as you can get.
And he knew how to move...
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