And Now, Five Predictions Regarding The Death Of Michael Jackson
1. Jackson’s death is going to make addiction to prescription painkillers the media/political punching bag for the next 18 months, even more than they already have been. Sure, with your Limbaughs and your Reid brothers and your teen Oxy deaths over the last few years, the story’s been on the regular media serving tray for a while now. But the death of Michael Jackson — in so many ways, a ringer for Elvis Presley’s death — will assure that pill-popping will finally start to do the boffo box office it deserves. It’s a part of us now. I mean, it always was. But get ready for new laws, new PSAs, new celebrity Vicodin-laced tell-alls, and so on. It’s gonna be enough to make you wanna take some pills.
2. This, along with the whole Will.I.Am debacle and a third, as-yet-unseen disaster, will finally rid the world of Perez Hilton.
3. Your Facebook event invites and email inbox will fill up with “Michael Jackson Tribute” party invites at local clubs. Update: This is already happening.
4. It may finally become safe to wear the “Beat It” jacket again without fear of someone thinking you are one of those real-deal, daddy-touched-me-in-my-bathing-suit-area Michael Jackson obsessives.
5. Every failing print publication in the world is going to do a special “Remembering Michael” supplement. And the man who once claimed the earth and the moon and the sun in the name of popular music will recede to just being another blip in the noise of modern life. Years from now, you’re going to have to explain to your kids just what the hell it was all about. And you’ll be at a loss, just like you are now. Good night, sweet King of Pop. Good night.
June 26th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
“He missed his childhood and now he’s gonna miss his old age. How fucked up is that?” – Bob Lefsetz
June 29th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
I heard the demo of dont stop that MJ gave to quincy jones. Shits so wicked. It must have been like john leckie with the stone roses. press record and watch the cash flow in.