Where were you when Michael Jackson died?

[Rigs83]

I have heard from Boomers that they knew exactly where they were when Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., or John Lennon were shot and killed so ask the Escapist forum trawlers where were you when MJ died?

I was at my job, taking my break at six pm eastern when I flipped on the television to see the news. The first I noticed was that they had the common scene of a copter floating over a hospital and at the bottom it read "TMZ is the first reporting that Michael Jackson has died."
I was shocked and watched through the whole lunch and almost forgot to punch back in. I told the people I was working with and they were all equally shocked. I tried to work as usual but I did break down and cry a few tears and have been a bit teary eyed since.

 

[pantsoffdanceoff]

I was siiting on my computer reading escapist forums until one about MJ's death came up. I can still listen to "Thriller" so...

 

[Jadak]

*sighs* Really? This now?

 

[Hazy]

Oh, I didn't know Alan Jackson was a member of the forums!

Really, lets move on. He died, it was sad, so many threads won't fix it.

 

[Mrsoupcup]

I was finding my last Billbourds in Burnout Pardise.

 

[Good morning blues]

I was waiting for my interviewee to actually fucking well show up to her own god damned interview and logged into facebook and it was pretty much everybody's status.

 

[Yoshi_egg80]

I was busy not caring.

 

[joe the janitor]

At a school dance with the song pretty rave girl blasting.

 

[jobobob]

Getting a T.V. hooked up when the T.V. guy said he died.

 

[ExplosionProofTaco]

At school. In Geography. Why couldn't it have been Britney spears, Perez hilton, Lindsay lohan or Paris Hilton? Seriously

 

[Soulreaverm]

I was in my ICT class, and my teacher suddenly yelled "Hey, Michael Jackson died!"
About five seconds later someone else got a text message saying "Michael Jackson just died!"
Then the bell rang and I subsequently saw about 15 people walk up to other people and say "Michael Jackson just died!" to which the reply was usually "I fucking know already!" because they had already been told by an average of five people.

It was weird.

 

[Skeleon]

I was laying in bed, sleeping.
'Twas quite a surprise to hear it just now, in the radio's morning news.

 

[zen5887]

I was asleep but only 7 hours earlier I was playing Beat It.

 

[Kinguendo]

I was jogging with Michael... Bluth...

Nah, I was here... I saw the Escapist descend into a frenzy of MJ related threads, even in Gaming discussion? :\

 

[captainwalrus]

I was on the bus listening to this chick talk about his death.

Oh. And yesterday, I played the opening few seconds of Thriller, then I got bored and switched to another song...OMG..COINCIDENCE???

 

[Grabbin Keelz]

I was playing Team Fortress 2 with him until we kicked him cause he started afk-ing. Whoops.

 

[PurpleRain]

Ugh. I'm going to finally spill my juice with all these MJ threads.

The man was great, awesome, but he hit his peak agggggges ago. At that point, he was sort of dead in the bussiness. He can still make money and be cool, just none of his new songs or dance moves will beat his old stuff.
He still makes a massive amount of money and just... there's more horrors in the world not cared about. Not talked about or listened to. The man on the stage dies, the world pauses, a country that needs help cries out and no one listens!

People are slain in Iran by the people who are supposed to be their voice. It's half way through the papers to find it; near the comics and weather section. MJ's death will be frontline page for the next week or so. Swine flu has now become the thing of the past.
Africa still has so many problems so ripe with it. Zimbabwe is under a cruel dictator and desease is still massive.
North Korea are as shifty as ever.

I'm not arguing we shouldn't care, but I know that his funeral will be bigger than Princes Dianas or the Queen Mothers, and they were role models that at least achieved great things. I'm sure MJ did give to charity a lot, but like people such as Anna Nichol Smith, only their big exploits (dangling a baby, being strange, shunning cameras) will be remembered.

Can we please not condemn this into some 'media a rumour snowball down a mountain' and just remember and move on.

The man on the stage dies, the world pauses.