Gotta agree with Unicorn and Foos here. This guy definitely inspired me in taking whatever you do to the next level. I can’t describe how much the creativity he put into his videos has influenced me in my own art and film making. My favorites have always been Thriller (duh), and Speed Demon. I never got tired of watching them. His songs were undeniably catchy, and I can’t bring myself to believe any of the accusations thrust upon him. I remember listening to his songs on tape over and over again (especially the BAD album) as a kid when my dad and I would go into town in the morning on weekends to get groceries and the paper. My sister was an even bigger fan as a kid and we were both shocked as we were hanging out in her apartment yesterday eating lunch as they first reported his hospitalization, then his coma, and finally death. Shortly after, I had to drop her off at work at the tempe marketplace mall, where nearly every store was playing some song of his (in her’s, it was “Dirty Diana”). It was no different at the mall I worked at. Even the hoidy toidy jewelry store was playing “You Rock my World”. As a musician myself, I hope I have the opprotunity to jam with him on the big stage upstairs one day, and rock out while we make God’s foot tap.
The world has lost a true legend, but as The Sandlot and Final Crisis taught us, “Legends Never Die”.
Long live the King.
