Who else is ready to give MJ mania a rest?

Pilgrim · #1 07-07-2009, 09:44 PM

I tuned away from tonight's TV coverage of the funeral. MJ was talented, he did good music, maybe opened some doors. But he wasn't on my radar for the past 15+ years other than for his legal and financial troubles. I thought the funeral was over the top, which is kind of how MJ lived...so perhaps it fit.

I believe that for some younger generation people, MJ was their Elvis. But I'm ready to be done with this. I didn't have a yen to hear his music two weeks ago, and I don't now. I even wonder why so many others who didn't even think about his music before his death are buying his music like crazy? It's not going anywhere.

No disrespect to MJ intended. But no adoration, either. Anyone else ready to be done with the media coverage?

west*coast*bass · #2 07-07-2009, 09:46 PM

Tune it out if you are tired of it. The media will run with this for as long as they can. And we know they can run long....

GeneralElectric · #3 07-07-2009, 09:48 PM

I give it another 2 weeks.

Chunk-O-Funk · #4 07-07-2009, 09:51 PM

He's dead!?!?!

allexcosta · #5 07-07-2009, 09:52 PM

I'm not... Been listening to "Off The Wall" and "Thriller" at least once a week since 1982 and don't really want to stop. You can dial different channels on your TV and radio.

Pilgrim · #6 07-07-2009, 10:08 PM

Even NPR has aired extended stories, although they've moderated the gushing as much as any outlet. They managed to keep their reporting pretty much to the point and explored the fact and history around MJ, and the role he played in music and society...which seems appropriate to me. I'm not complaining about a reasonable amount of coverage, but when a major network airs a two-hour special around the funeral, that's over the top for me.

elpezpr · #7 07-07-2009, 10:13 PM

I'm a bit bothered by the hypocrisy of it all.

popinfresh · #8 07-07-2009, 10:13 PM

Try working in a music shop

It's interesting also hearing everyone else talk about it in store (customers). Though I must say one rude lady tempted me a lot when she just walked up the other day and said "where's Michael Jackson??".. Errr, 6 feet under?

UnsungZeros · #9 07-07-2009, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by allexcosta

You can dial different channels on your TV and radio.

The problem is that it's drowning out other important news. MJ's death isn't news anymore.

**Mark Wilson** · #10 07-07-2009, 10:19 PM

I'm not.
I loved him. He was absolutely incredible and one of the biggest losses to music, and the world, in a while.

TOOL460002 · #11 07-07-2009, 10:19 PM

i was a huge fan of michael whilst younger. to make a joke that amuses me: i was interested in him until i was about twelve, which is about the age when he wouldve lost interest in me.

seriously though, i was watching hardball (i think) when that story broke, and then it disrupted my olberman countdown fix, and then today i could hit random numbers on my remote and get that stupid staples center business. and then there are the encore presentations...

i will mourn him less than dead family members and friends, who i still get over in a week or so. he is a human and he is gone, and he is costing my great and bankrupt state of california millions of dollars to manage some weird theater funeral. if i was that big, and died, i wouldnt want anything like that. thats just embarrassing.

warwick.hoy · #12 07-07-2009, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Pilgrim

Even NPR has aired extended stories, although they've moderated the gushing as much as any outlet. They managed to keep their reporting pretty much to the point and explored the fact and history around MJ, and the role he played in music and society...which seems appropriate to me. I'm not complaining about a reasonable amount of coverage, but when a major network airs a two-hour special around the funeral, that's over the top for me.

I saw some blurbs via the NPR FB page. While I ignored the articles, I was a little surprised to see NPR covering it, although I was thankful they weren't riding it all day long and assume they kept some journalistic integrity,...as them seem to do.

Other than that I haven't been paying too much attention. I respect his music and everything, but I think that it's time to leave him be.

ebozzz · #13 07-07-2009, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by elpezpr

I'm a bit bothered by the hypocrisy of it all.

What do you mean?

Joe Gress · #14 07-07-2009, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Chunk-O-Funk

He's dead!?!?!

Are they sure? Someone get a stick.

J. Crawford · #15 07-07-2009, 10:24 PM

What I love is how Jermaine Jackson said during the interview, something along the lines of, We are prepared to move on and keep MJ as a memory.

But then at the bottom of the screen it gave about 10 more encore times of the MJ Memorial.

Leave the dead be, IMO.

popinfresh · #16 07-07-2009, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by ebozzz

What do you mean?

I read that as, as of 3 weeks ago people all over were quick to talk him down whether personal or musical, even about his upcoming tour. Now that he has passed, he was supposedly the greatest man ever to come to being.
All those magazines that made millions on exploiting him whilst alive with their gossip stories and negativity are now making millions on his death with a 180 on how they see him.
I don't care how others feel, but it sickens me how this world works.

ebozzz · #17 07-07-2009, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by popinfresh

I read that as, as of 3 weeks ago people all over were quick to talk him down whether personal or musical, even about his upcoming tour. Now that he has passed, he was supposedly the greatest man ever to come to being.
All those magazines that made millions on exploiting him whilst alive with their gossip stories and negativity are now making millions on his death with a 180 on how they see him.
I don't care how others feel, but it sickens me how this world works.

If that was the take on it, then I am in agreement!

Pilgrim · #18 07-07-2009, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by TOOL460002

[snip] he is a human and he is gone, and he is costing my great and bankrupt state of california millions of dollars to manage some weird theater funeral. if i was that big, and died, i wouldnt want anything like that. thats just embarrassing.

I find it hard to understand why the city of L.A. didn't tell the funeral planners they would pass them the bill for police coverage and other expenses incurred. They do this for major events, don't they??

ebozzz · #19 07-07-2009, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Pilgrim

I find it hard to understand why the city of L.A. didn't tell the funeral planners they would pass them the bill for police coverage and other expenses incurred. They do this for major events, don't they??

My understanding is that there has been some discussion with the Jackson family about the possibility of offsetting some of the cost of that the city incurred....

elpezpr · #20 07-07-2009, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by ebozzz

What do you mean?

In short words: The media circus.