Whats with all the north american fans jumping on the mourning bandwagon? well thats a dumb question, I know what its about. But come on, if you interviewed someone off the street this time last week about Michael Jackson you would of gotten an immensely different response.
To be fair people have been calling MJ a legend and an icon well before he died so its not completely surprising but I didn\'t expect this kind of reaction here in the west. I pictured the majority of people would be being smart asses like Cerb and Chiz lol 
Maybe mainstream media feels like shit now for spending the past decade tearing down everything the guy built, and innocent guy (in the eyes of the law anyways). Or maybe its that don\'t know what you got till its gone thing. Ah well, a shame he is gone all the same.
Wouldn\'t label myself as an extreme fan but I knew pretty much all the singles, the ones everyone else knows, and always really enjoyed them. Sad about Farah and Ed McMahon too.
Celebrity death rule of 3 strikes again!! and there are still 3 perfectly healthy Jonas brothers walking around 
and the reaper takes the King of Pop? What a waste.
EDIT: PS I read his funeral will be paid for in cash. They don\'t take plastic.
don\'t get me wrong, I always had admiration for him as a singer, but tward the end, he did become a sad character.
I still have a lot of his old stuff on cassettes somewhere from way back when.
and when I did hear about it, I was genuinely somewhat saddned by it.
as for the kiddyfiddling thing, I don\'t buy into it. I think he did sleep with these kids, but only as the mind of a kid himself. having said that, there is no excuse for a grown man sleeping with young boys.
the worst thing he ever did was offer to settle out of court the first time round, that was like a bathroom light to a moth, all sorts of crackpots with extortion on their mind came crawling out of the woodwork looking for a slice.
like I said, I was genuinely saddened by his death, but at the same time still think it\'s not a totally bad thing to have a crack at his expense, I mean, fuck, he\'s dead anyway, like he gives a shit.
ps. he\'s not being buried, he\'s being recycled.
