Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson, King of Pop? Blazed a trail for other black artists?
BULLSHIT!
He followed Diana Ross (and the Supremes), Aretha Franklin, Martha and the Vandellas, Nat King Cole, Billy Eckstine (both big in the 1950s), Leslie Hutchinson ("Hutch") the black West Indian singer popular immediately before, during and after World War Two, the Inkspots (ditto) and Paul Robeson, to mention just a few.
Martha, in her 60s, is not only touring Britain just now; back home she's a busy Detroit City Council member. You don't have to be wacko to be talented.
Please, let's have no more synthetic grief for a reasonably talented yet flawed (aren't we all) individual most of us never met.
BULLSHIT!
He followed Diana Ross (and the Supremes), Aretha Franklin, Martha and the Vandellas, Nat King Cole, Billy Eckstine (both big in the 1950s), Leslie Hutchinson ("Hutch") the black West Indian singer popular immediately before, during and after World War Two, the Inkspots (ditto) and Paul Robeson, to mention just a few.
Martha, in her 60s, is not only touring Britain just now; back home she's a busy Detroit City Council member. You don't have to be wacko to be talented.
Please, let's have no more synthetic grief for a reasonably talented yet flawed (aren't we all) individual most of us never met.
Labels: bullshit, grief, Michael Jackson, synthetic grief
posted by Skip | 6:29 pm
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