A year back over this weekend, the world lost a legend who had touched so many lives and hearts that he was called a king, the King of Pop. Thousands of articles and maybe millions of blog posts have been written about him, so there is nothing much I can serve here that hasn’t already been seen. Yet, this enigma’s story is inspiring, scary, humbling and most importantly, it’s real and not a tale from a movie.
With a collection of songs buzzing in my ears, I am struggling to find words because just the thought of listening to his music that is going to live for years to come is humbling. One among a huge family, a childhood that was sugar coated with the sweetness of music yet burdened with the hardships of earning a livelihood. Rumors of an abusive father and a broken home abound, yet when he stood there and said ‘Beat it’, the world stopped! The childlike innocence that would surface more often than not looked as though a child in there was raring to be one yet the years had long gone and there was no going back. His meteoric rise to fame, fortune and glory was like a dream and we all wanted him to sing and entertain us. We could not get enough of him being ‘Dangerous’, a ‘Smooth Criminal’ and going after his ‘Dirty Diana’. We all wanted those insane concerts and music videos that would push our imagination and take us to places we never knew existed. We wanted him to heal our world and yet stood there and watched as he drove down the slippery slope.
Like many of us, he was nothing less than a demi-god for me yet when I sit back and listen to his music, I wonder who really was the person behind that mask. Did anyone really ask? Even if they did, it was because an interview was in the anvil and no channel could miss a MJ interview. There is no bitterness but deep sense of sorrow on the loss of a creative guru par excellence who could have given us so much more had we listened to him and not just heard him!
RIP MJ, ‘It doesn't matter who's wrong or right. Just beat it, beat it’!
Krishna Iyer
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