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At best his music was great, and yes, he was a flawed human being, but a great artist - which often goes hand to hand. In my case, his personal life did cast such a shadow over his music that eventually I stopped listening his songs, but have been doing so now again after reading about his death, and perhaps as he isn't around anymore himself the music can stand separate from his life. He died rather young, but at least it was a quick death.

So, even after those negative words, rest in peace.

People, especially older ones like me, and those even little older especially, associate his music with our own lives, it is connected to our memories of our own youth, and in these kind of situations nostalgia and sentimental feelings take over. It's not just MJ the artist and the man people are grieving, they are also grieving the passing of their own youth.

But of course there is some amount of hysteria involved, human beings being susceptible to be swept away with public outpourings of grief, a kind of mob mentality of emotions.

If one expects great women and men to be good people, one usually gets to be disappointed. But for some reason we expect famous, talented and succesful persons to be also good persons and their art or whatever they do, isn't enough, as it should be. So, our heroes tend to disappoint us in the end. But their works and the memories we have remain.

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I don't know X, I'd say you put it pretty well yourself. I feel a huge Revmacd op-ed piece coming over this. I am having a hard time with words like "for all he did for the music indusrtry". People are saying that like they are saying he cured cancer. It's music. He was a song and dance man. Oh, and I know the prosocution failed to make the case but is there anyone who doesn't believe he was a statuatory rapist at best and a pedophile rapist at worst? There were all those multi million dollar payouts to the childrens parents and such. Not that it makes him guilty...... maybe he just felt like giving some people that kind of money despite them accusing him of molesting their children .

I don't mean to offend anyone and if I did I apologize but I just can't work up any caring what so ever that there is one less child rapist in the world today.

Personally I do think that he probably was guilty of the charges, but what I think doesn't mean anything. He was never found guilty and I think that both he and the first child's parents came out badly because of the payout. But the American justice system is really weighted towards things being sorted out before judge and jury have a chance to decide, so it's hard to say whether I'm fair at all by thinking so about them. In the second case, I don't understand why the parents even let the kid stay with him? The only answers I can come up with are not nice. It's a sordid mess and best what I can hope is that the children involved will come out of it without being mentally scarred.

What comes to what he did to the music industry, just look the sales of his records now. His albums and songs are conquering the charts again. Lots of money for music industry.

And humanity has always had a tendency to put show people, the song, dance and acting people above those who do the inventions (and hard work) that better our lives - except if the scientists etc themselves are on the basis of their personality celebrity material like Einstein, Edison or Sagan. It's just how things are - decades of quiet work in some laboratory are not that exciting to average man and woman. Show business done by charismatic personalities are.