Michael Jackson suffers cardiac arrest

[130269]

I don´t like the music from MJ and the way he make the headlines later, but whatsoever, he is/was a piece of music history. It´s always a bad thing when people pass away so "young". Like Farrah Fawcett too... May both R.I.P.

[damageinc]

it's tragic, but somehow i was expecting something like that will happen to him some day, if you look what he has done with his body and health!!

I can say the same. Somehow I knew that the hundreds of plastic operation and things like that won't cause anything good. Still a shocking news, and he'll be missed for sure even though I wasn't fan of him.

[Pete-Rock]

This came way too early, its a shock and a big loss, I did not feel that it was about time for him to die.

And I am happy to read that although we are all Metalheads everyone here says that MJ will be missed. He was a great musician (and also a tragic character) and has a save place in music history. I mean, THRILLER is still the world's best-selling record of all time!!! (and by the way Eddie Van Halens guitar-solo in Beat it still kicks ass).

MJ I salute you, R.I.P.!

[metmum]

I feel for his kids, its sad when they loose a parent when their young but was never a fan of his so I'm not that bothered.

I also feel bad for the kids he fiddled with as they now won't be able to get the justice they deserve.

Yes he made a big impact on music but I don't think he was a nice man. You only have to look how he treated Paul Mccartney, he made music with the guy became his friend then stabbed him in the back by buying the Beattles back catlagoue all to make more money. He brought his kids of the mothers and won't his kids see them. What sort of man does that? And some of the other stuff he did well not nice at all.

[JM16]

It made me really sad and I couldn't sleep well this night.Although he did those things with little children, I always liked him for his music and his passion for it.And don't forget about his hard time when he was younger...
R.I.P Michael..After Elvis and Lennon, the third big icon died.

[Bob Garage]

see this is what get me about this whole news story.... the number of people (and its in the many millions of people) saying "yes I know he did those things with children, but he still made great music". As if its ok for him to have done those things just because he wrote a good song or two.

being a talented singer/songwriter does not give anyone the excuse to abuse children. And people and the media today seem to be forgetting his wrong doings or saying well it was ok, he wrote good songs.

Michael Jackson abused children, let us not elevate him to "icon" status for his music, let's remember his many wrong doings outwiegh anything else he has contributed to society in his life.

[Pete-Rock]

see this is what get me about this whole news story.... the number of people (and its in the many millions of people) saying "yes I know he did those things with children, but he still made great music". As if its ok for him to have done those things just because he wrote a good song or two.

being a talented singer/songwriter does not give anyone the excuse to abuse children. And people and the media today seem to be forgetting his wrong doings or saying well it was ok, he wrote good songs.

Michael Jackson abused children, let us not elevate him to "icon" status for his music, let's remember his many wrong doings outwiegh anything else he has contributed to society in his life.

Well, although I dont know what REALLY happened (nobody knows that) I have to say that no judge (neither bribed or not) convicted him so far. Second: Jackson has been abused as a child himself, which does not absolve him from what he PROBABLY did, but which may cause an understanding for many ppl why he became what he was.

[FBM]

I was never a fan of him but I liked some of his songs.
Has it ever been proven that he abused children? I don't know if he did or if he did not, but let's show some respect - after all he was a human being and he has children, too. And you wouldn't like it either if somebody just hast to bitch about a person that you were a fan of.

The saddest thing about all of this is that sickipedia (a wiki full of sick jokes) has crashed this morning from all the traffic regarding his death. Damn, and I was trying to find some sick and funny wacko jokes on there.

That is probably the most irreverent comment i have ever read so far in this forum. Show some respect, man. You are trying to be funny but you are not.

[JM16]

see this is what get me about this whole news story.... the number of people (and its in the many millions of people) saying "yes I know he did those things with children, but he still made great music". As if its ok for him to have done those things just because he wrote a good song or two.

being a talented singer/songwriter does not give anyone the excuse to abuse children. And people and the media today seem to be forgetting his wrong doings or saying well it was ok, he wrote good songs.

Michael Jackson abused children, let us not elevate him to "icon" status for his music, let's remember his many wrong doings outwiegh anything else he has contributed to society in his life.

Do you know for sure that he abused childern?The judges spoke him free although that's not a proof that he's not guilty especially in the US....
But for me he is an icon as an musician.Millions of records sold in the past few years!You've to admit..

[Bob Garage]

see this is what get me about this whole news story.... the number of people (and its in the many millions of people) saying "yes I know he did those things with children, but he still made great music". As if its ok for him to have done those things just because he wrote a good song or two.

being a talented singer/songwriter does not give anyone the excuse to abuse children. And people and the media today seem to be forgetting his wrong doings or saying well it was ok, he wrote good songs.

Michael Jackson abused children, let us not elevate him to "icon" status for his music, let's remember his many wrong doings outwiegh anything else he has contributed to society in his life.

Do you know for sure that he abused childern?The judges spoke him free although that's not a proof that he's not guilty especially in the US....
But for me he is an icon as an musician.Millions of records sold in the past few years!You've to admit..

my point was, that what agrivated me about this "outpooring of grief" is the people who say "it doesn't mater if he molested children, becuase hes wrote a few good songs". (and there is litterally millions of people saying such things on sites like twitter this morning)

Just because someone wrote a few good songs doesn't mean they can get away with molesting children. We don't know if he did or not, but such statements from people suggest that if he did do it, then its ok becuase he wrote some good songs,"he's allowed" to do it.