So we said good-bye to Michael Jackson and it was a massive spectacle.
My roomy F. F. anticipated the whole thing and recalled the situationist concept, meaning he didn't have any intention to watch the memorial service. He just got home and turned on the TV but spent most of the time on the phone. (He did bitch though, and so did I, about the performance of the kid from "Britain Got Talent" show.)
Friends and acquaintances facebooked and twitted their TV or Harlem Street experiences. Cata V. smell something wrong when Magic Johnson mentioned MJ's affair with Kentucky Fried Chicken and her status changed to "kfc should pay for the advertisment ???? "
DJ Velvet, someone who plays MJ in most of her gigs, didn't give a shit about the memorial. She has been living in a world without Michael Jackson for more than a week already.
Like most of his fans, I reviewed Michael Jackson musical legacy shortly after the news of his death. Of course I believe Off The Wall is the best album ever produced. But in the myriad of video posts from people, DJ/Producer Solo Muzika put the one of "Show You The Way To Go," a lovely sexy jam, which led me to buy a compilation of The Jacksons.
As a DJ that mostly plays disco music, I found The Jacksons appropriate for my sets. It is romantic, sexy and very danceable era of MJ. The mellow guitar and the vocals were made for the dance floor. It also has the sense of unity and brotherhood that made of House Music a spiritual thing.
It is true Michael Jackson was a wonderful child that reminds us the sense of unity and growing as a family, like the teachings of Elegba, an Orisha often represented by children. The NYTimes got something in a report about the fading of black ambivalence after his death.
Thus, the messages about MJ's love for humanity weren't vain. Something I liked from the memorial was that it went back to the beginning, with the Jacksons and a wonderful child on stage.
