Saturday, June 27, 2009

Gone Too Soon


Micheal Jackson is dead. At once I heard this I felt like I was shaken from deep inside. My eyes were wet without my knowing. Secondly I realized how much Micheal inspired me to be my self.
He is the King of Pop.
Pop is Pop not because it's shallow, romantic and not touching any darker things inside being. At least that's not why Micheal was the King of Pop. His performances were highly Socio-Political and therefore highly Philosophical. They made a culture than any leftist made, through out the world. Even when all the elders were threatening me for disobedience in my childhood, I was staring at a Micheal's poster hanged on my wall. I told my self, still he's there. His character which went beyond the natural stereotype of human being, his dance which seems like a sexy, radical attack to the outer, kept me encouraging to be different. He made some thing which is more than him. Finally I realised he was inside me than Che or Karl Marx.
Real Pop is something that goes with the structures of common human taste but changing it to something else. With Micheal he changed the whole world taste in to something rebelious, something beyond hetro/ homo sex, something never-ever experienced. But at the same time it was Pop. That is Micheal Jackson.
His charisma was not something borrowed. It was not something agreed to ordinary stupidity of mass. It was the change. It was a challenge. His politics touched the deep human behaviors of sex. He re-arranged the natural phenomena of sex. They nailed him as a child abuser. He was a rebel like a child.
That is why he is higher than Victor Hara or Bob Marley. They did Socio-Politics. But Micheal was doing Human Politics. His attack was personal to everybody.
I love to quote John Mayors words before I end this.
'A major strand of our cultural DNA has left us'.
But I am sure that strand was highly infectious

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